Albert Camus Quotes

You can't let someone else's agenda hijack your day.

It is better for you to take responsibility for your life as it is, instead of blaming others, or circumstances, for your predicament. As your eyes open, you'll see that your state of health, happiness, and every circumstance of your life has been, in large part, arranged by you - consciously or unconsciously.

It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.

And I always laugh at that, because I think I've always been doing what I want to do since Day 1.

No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.

Everybody eventually discovers that they are an individual with the power to affect their own lives and make it better or not.

This life is yours and no one else's, and if you spend your time looking at other people's pages, you'll never get anything done.

I'm so in control of my life, you shouldn't dislike anything I do-because I'm not only in the best place I've ever been, but it keeps getting better and better.

I wasn't handed college or graduate school or anything else on a silver platter. I had to work very hard, but I did it because I wanted to. That's the real key to happiness. I think unhappy people are those who feel that circumstances are forcing them into a pattern. Happy people are not slaves to the system.

Happiness lies so far from man, but he must begin by daring to will it.

We cannot waste time. We can only waste ourselves.

No one can be great, or good, or happy except through the inward efforts of themselves.

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

I started reading about people of great accomplishment... and it dawned on me suddenly that the person who has the most to do with what happens in your life is you.

Too often in life, something happens and we blame other people for us not being happy or satisfied or fulfilled. So the point is, we all have choices, and we make the choice to accept people or situations or to not accept situations.

I think there's nothing that makes you happier than to be really involved in something. I can't imagine a totally idle life.

My most earnest prayer is that every man and every woman will get it into his or her heart that they are in very deed the architects of their lives.

I have the greatest life in the world because I created it.

If I'm not happy with what's going on, I try to change it myself.

I'm lucky in that I can't see myself doing an office job every day. I'm lucky that I can play my sport and go around the world without too much to worry about outside that. I think it's good to be happy with what you're doing.

In Buddhism, you have to believe in yourself. You don't believe something external guides your life. You do it yourself.

I don't believe in luck. I don't believe in destiny. Instead, I believe that our lives are powered by countless microdecisions.

I'm not obsessed with the idea of fame or lots of money or social power. I can actually do want I want to do - I'm free - isn't that the greatest prize?

As I've gotten older and seen people around me evolving and moving on with life, I just have a stronger sense of my own mortality and time itself becomes more precious. I don't want to spend this precious and limited time on things that don't necessarily bring me happiness.

I feel guilty just sitting around when I know I can be doing something.