Viktor E. Frankl Quotes

If you want to be happy, be.

Happiness is your own treasure because it lies within you.

Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.

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

My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations.

Being deeply contented with God in my everyday life is a focused attitude. It is always available. It means practicing letting go of my obsession with how I'm doing. It means training myself to learn to actually be present with people, and seeking to love them.

A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

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

The secret of happiness is the determination to be happy always, rather than wait for outer circumstances to make one happy.

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

I've realised I can be happy.

Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don't complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!

I see nothing wrong with the human trait to desire. In fact, I consider it integral to our success mechanism. Becoming attached to what we desire is what causes the trouble. If you must have it in order to be happy, then you are denying the happiness of the here and now.

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.

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.

You can't ever get everything you want. It is impossible. Luckily, there is another option: You can learn to control your mind, to step outside of the endless cycle of desire and aversion.

The earlier you learn that you should focus on what you have, and not obsess about what you don't have, the happier you will be.

A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.

Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.

I'm very happy with my life. I am what I am. I don't worry about anything that I can't control. That's a really good lesson in life.

Happiness is an inside job.

When your primary function is to be happy, then whatever comes to you is irrelevant. Happiness is your true manifestation.

We experience happiness as a series of pleasing moments. They come and go like clouds, unpredictable, fleeting, and without responsibility to our desires. Through honest self-work, reflection, and meditation, we begin to string more of these moments together, creating a web-like design of happiness that drapes around our lives.

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

You get successful for the person that you are, not for the way you look. If you feel good, you can conquer the world, so you need to feel right inside.