Ray Bradbury Quotes

Happiness is an inside job.

Just write the best you can about the things that concern you most. I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun.

One has just to be oneself. That's my basic message. The moment you accept yourself as you are, all burdens, all mountainous burdens, simply disappear. Then life is a sheer joy, a festival of lights.

When we are centered in joy, we attain our wisdom.

Our joy does not have to be based on our circumstances.

Happiness is your own treasure because it lies within you.

If you want to be happy, be.

I worried that people wouldn't like me. Now I try not to worry and focus on being happy.

Happiness doesn't depend on how much you have to enjoy, but how much you enjoy what you have.

If you are trying to be happy and trying to be kind, you've already won.

All I can focus on is what I can control and that's being happy. My own happiness.

I know that there are other sides to life. All the more reason why I now try to convey to the people out there how important it is to feel a sense of joy.

You just need to be happy, and once you're happy with yourself then you can do more things.

It's so much easier to be happy. It's so much easier to choose to love the things that you have, instead of always yearning for what you're missing, or what it is that you're imagining you're missing. It is so much more peaceful.

I try not to be judgmental. I meditate twice a day. I get some sort of physical exercise. I infuse my life with love. I love what I do, the job.

Being joyful isn't what makes you grateful. Being grateful is what makes you joyful.

Be kind to yourself so you can be happy enough to be kind to the world.

The highest mental health is not liking myself but being joyfully interested in everything but myself.

I like wherever I am. That's my big secret.

I can express gratitude for the simple act of being able to breathe in and breathe out. I can move away from darkness and depression to light and hope. I can be happy with who I am, not what I should be, or what I might have been, or what someone tells me I must be. I am me, the true me; you are you, the true you - and that's good. That's beautiful. That's enough.

Our life is so short that every time I see my children, I enjoy them as much as I can. Whenever I can, I enjoy my beloved, my family, my friends, my apprentices. But mainly I enjoy myself, because I am with myself all the time. Why should I spend my precious time with myself judging myself, rejecting myself, creating guilt and shame? Why should I push myself to be angry or jealous? If I don't feel good emotionally, I find out what is causing it and I fix it. Then I can recover my happiness and keep going with my story.

I find the joy of the 'doing' increases. Creativity increases. Intuition increases. The pleasure of life grows. And negativity recedes.

A joyful life isn’t about others; it’s about the brightness that is associated with being alive. Your path to it is through anything that replaces thinking with pure flight, pure joy.

Life is going by. Don't waste a minute being negative, offended, or bitter. Choose to be happy.