William Bennett Quotes

Just stop for a minute and you'll realize you're happy just being. I think it's the pursuit that screws up happiness. If we drop the pursuit, it's right here.

Enjoy doing nothing, and you can enjoy doing anything. Enjoy having nothing, and you can enjoy whatever you have.

I don't want to go anywhere; I don't want to leave anybody behind. Happiness is right here, right now, in this world, in this room. I am happiest wherever it is that I am.

I'm sounding like Oprah, but if you're not practicing contentment where you are now, you're not getting contentment when you get what you want.

What could I wish for the present but to take the greatest pleasure in being what I am?

Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels.

Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.

Unending joy is actually closer to us than our own skin, and there is nothing we have to do or get or be to experience it. All we have to do is stop driving it away.

Happiness isn't getting what you want, it's wanting what you got.

The big thing I've discovered, the big secret, is that it's all about how happy you are. It's the ultimate thing. People forget your flaws and imperfections if they see you're happy.

I guess I don't think there's any reason to feel guilty about having joy in your life, regardless of how bad things are in the world.

The secret to life is finding joy in ordinary things. I'm interested in happiness.

I'm learning how to live in the present and be grateful for what's working rather than look for the 'what's not working' piece.

You can be happy where you are.

There is no way to happiness - happiness is the way.

People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.

If you are not happy here and now, you never will be.

It is possible to live happily in the here and the now. So many conditions of happiness are available - more than enough for you to be happy right now. You don't have to run into the future in order to get more.

Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness.

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

Don't think you're going to be happy when you get something. You have to be happy on your way to happy.

Happiness is found by deeply experiencing the exact moment we are in.

Sometimes I think we live in a world where, even when things are good, people always feel unsatisfied with wherever they are, so I think first I just want to enjoy being happy where I am now and not let my ambition take away from being in the moment.

I don't need much to be happy.