Barbara de Angelis Quotes

There's only one reason why you're not experiencing bliss at this present moment, and it's because you're thinking or focusing on what you don't have....But, right now you have everything you need to be in bliss.

Happiness isn’t some elusive treasure we chase after. It’s a state of being we need to PRACTICE.

Happiness is not the acquisition of anything; it's the understanding of something.

If happiness were easy, everybody would feel it all the time, and it wouldn't seem like such an elusive prize.

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

Happiness is a state of activity.

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

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.

To be happy, you must live in, but not for, the present moment.

Happiness must ensue. It cannot be pursued

The best way to secure future happiness is to be as happy as is rightfully possible to-day.

Happiness is enjoyed only in proportion as it is known; and such is the state or folly of man, that it is known only by experience of its contrary.

Happiness is a present attitude and not a future condition.

A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future.

The great Western disease is, ‘I'll be happy when... When I get the money. When I get a BMW. When I get this job. When I get the relationship,’ Well, the reality is, you never get to when. The only way to find happiness is to understand that happiness is not out there. It's in here. And happiness is not next week. It's now.

Usually we try to figure out what we think would make us happy, and then try to make those things happen. But happiness isn't circumstance-de pendent. There are people who have every reason in the world to be happy who aren't. There are people with genuine problems who are. The key to happiness is the decision to be happy.

Happiness flourishes where there is happiness...

Would I have been happier? Maybe. But then, happiness was overrated.

That man is never happy for the present is so true, that all his relief from unhappiness is only forgetting himself for a little while. Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

Happy the man, and happy he alone, he, who can call today his own.

Happiness is just how you feel when you don't feel miserable.

The happy man is he who turns his soul Unto the light of joys that he can find; And pays each day its just demand of toll, But shuts the future troubles from his mind.

If by happiness you mean instead an ordinary contentment, then yes - I'm fairly contented. Not satisfied - contented.

I might say: if the place I want to get to could only be reached by way of a ladder, I would give up trying to get there. For the place I really have to get to is a place I must already be at now. Anything that I might reach by climbing a ladder does not interest me.

[Happiness is] a ghost, it’s a shadow. You can’t really chase it. It’s a by-product, a very pleasant side effect to a life lived well.