Andrew Weil Quotes

Happiness is a habit—cultivate it.

The mind is malleable. Our life can be greatly transformed by even a minimal change in how we manage our thoughts and perceive and interpret the world. Happiness is a skill. It requires effort and time.

Well being is a condition one has to groom, a condition one has to become aquainted with in order to seek it

If you're not happy, you can become happy. Happiness is a choice.

Today's belief is tomorrow's behavior. If you want to be happier person tomorrow, sow seeds of happiness today.

To me, it's like happiness is about happiness, but happiness is a fight.

To fully thrive, we must not only eliminate the stressors but also actively seek joyful, loving, fulfilling lives that stimulate growth processes

If we cannot meet our everyday surroundings with equanimity and pleasure and grow each day in some useful direction, then... life is on the road toward misfortune, misery and destruction.

Take care of your inner beauty, your spiritual beauty, and that will reflect in your face. We have the face we created over the years. Every bad deed, every bad fault will show on your face. God can give us beauty and genes can give us our features, but whether that beauty remains or changes is determined by our thoughts and deeds.

I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.

One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.

Overcoming negative tendencies and enhancing positive potential are the very essence of the spiritual path.

When you do your best you learn to accept yourself

Happiness is the result of inner maturity. It depends on us alone, and requires patient work, carried out from day to day. Happiness must be built, and this requires time and effort. In the long term, happiness and unhappiness are therefore a way of being, or a life skill.

The trick is not how much pain you feel - but how much joy you feel

A game is an opportunity to focus our energy, with relentless optimism, at something we’re good at (or getting better at) and enjoy. In other words, gameplay is the direct emotional opposite of depression.

Acceptance is such an important commodity, some have called it "the first law of personal growth".

Unnatural to expect that learning to be happy should be any easier than, say, learning to play the violin or require any less practice.

Happy people build their inner world; unhappy people blame their outer world.

Why do people spend their time being sad when they could be happy?

Every day you have to choose and cultivate your own happiness.

I do not claim to have attained optimum emotional well-being. Actually, I think that may be a lifetime goal. For me it’s an ongoing process that requires awareness, knowledge, and practice. I do know what good emotional health feels like, and that motivates me to keep at the practice.

Happiness is a work of art. Handle with care.

Happiness is an art that one has to learn. It has nothing to do with your doing or not doing.

I believe in the possibility of happiness, if one cultivates intuition and outlives the grosser passions, including optimism.