Neale Donald Walsch Quotes

Happiness is an inside job.

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

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.

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

It is an important thing, in our never-ending pursuit of happiness, to stop and just be happy for a while.

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.

[I] never talk about gratitude and joy separately, for this reason. In 12 years, I've never interviewed a single person who would describe their lives as joyful, who would describe themselves as joyous, who was not actively practicing gratitude.

Grandpa says we've got everything to make us happy but happiness.

Happiness is a mindset for your journey, not the result of your destination.

Focus on where you are instead of where you wish you were. The joy will follow.

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

Contentment is the result of a limited imagination.

Happiness is your own treasure because it lies within you.

If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time.

Look for joy in your life; it's not always easy to find.

I've found joy, peace and perspective. Those are very good things to have.

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.

My ambition is to be happy.

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

Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.

I was looking for something to make me happy, and once I realised what I actually had, then I found success.

I've realised I can be happy.

The happiest people in this world are those who have the most interesting thoughts.

I've realized through the years that I just find happiness in other things, whether it's my dogs or my friends or, like, looking at the sunset. So if I were to wish for something else, it would just to be happy all the time, to have a superpower of not letting things affect me, and to be true to who I am, always.

Joy is not the result of getting what you want; it is the way to get what you want. In the deepest sense, joy is what you want.