Graham Swift Quotes

If you think peaceful thoughts, you'll feel peaceful emotions, and that's what you'll bring to every life situation. If you're attached to being right or absolutely need something in order to be at peace or successful, you'll live a life of striving yet never arriving.

The real enemy of happiness is the mind's fixations and delusions... If you have the right mind, you can overcome anything - you can be happy, no matter what.

Gratitude not only encourages our hearts, it produces peace. And we could all use a little more peace these days.

The necessary condition for the existence of peace and joy is the awareness that peace and joy are available.

To be happy when you are travelling, you need to be happy inside before you leave. A positive frame of mind will definitely enhance your travelling experience. If I'm not in a positive frame of mind then the whole thing definitely becomes more of a challenge for me.

If you cannot concentrate, you are not so happy.

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

While doing work if the mind continues to be active let it be so, but there must be at the same time a capacity for silence.

If you are not in the state of either acceptance, enjoyment, or enthusiasm, look closely and you will find that you are creating suffering for yourself and others.

The basic root of happiness lies in our minds; outer circumstances are nothing more than adverse or favourable.

Happiness is not so much a feeling as it is an attitude

What is happiness and unhappiness? It depends so little on the circumstances; it depends really only on what happens inside a person. I am grateful for every day and that makes me happy.

Happiness is a clear mind. A clear and sane mind knows how to live, how to work, what emails to send, what phone calls to make, and what to do do to create what it wants without fear.

Happiness is a state of mind.

Happiness is lost by criticizing it; sorrow by accepting it.

You cannot be both unhappy, and fully present in the Now.

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.

Wise or unwise, who doubts for a moment that contentment is the cause of happiness? Yet the inverse is true: we are contented because we are happy, and not happy because we are contented. Well-regulated minds may be satisfied with a small portion of happiness; none can be happy with a small portion of content.

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 is a 'state of mind' which we ourselves have the power to control - and that control lies in our thinking.

We are what we think, and all that we are rises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world. Speak and act with a pure mind and happiness will follow.

The happiest people are those who are too busy to notice whether they are or not.

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

There is really no reason to suffer. The only reason you suffer is because you choose to suffer. If you look at your life you will find many excuses to suffer, but a good reason to suffer you will not find. The same is true for happiness. The only reason you are happy is because you choose to be happy. Happiness is a choice, and so is suffering.