Robert Menzies Quotes

The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.

The hours and days you spend being annoyed or frustrated are times when you deny yourself access to life's best possibilities. When you live in anger and resentment, you cut yourself off from life's goodness.

I can hold on to that, that bitterness and that anger. It won't get me anywhere.

Life is too short to waste time hating anyone.

Life is going by. Don't waste a minute being negative, offended, or bitter. Choose to be happy.

I don't punish myself. Life's too short.

The goal of a life free of dysphoria is a snare and a delusion. A better goal is of good commerce with the world. Authentic happiness, astonishingly, can occur even in the presence of authentic sadness.

Happiness is the first principle of life. Happiness basically means well-being. It is always good and always a choice... We need to make the choice to be happy in a particular situation, just as it is, and at a given moment.

If you're holding onto negative stuff from before, you cannot deliver excellence.

I was born with a happy heart, and I try to keep a good attitude. It's not true that I'm happy all the time because nobody is, and we all go through our things.

You can live your life angry, bitter, mad at somebody or even guilty, not letting go of your own mistakes, but you won't receive the good things God has in store.

Ever since I was a kid, I've always thought it very important to be happy inside. There's a lot of bad things happening in the world, but it's important to try to stay happy and appreciate what you've got, and don't look externally for the happiness.

If you carry joy in your heart, you can heal any moment.

Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.

Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.

When you hear the word 'disabled,' people immediately think about people who can't walk or talk or do everything that people take for granted. Now, I take nothing for granted. But I find the real disability is people who can't find joy in life and are bitter.

Regrets and recriminations only hurt your soul.

Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.

We don't spend our days thinking about Microsoft or trying to get revenge on Microsoft. That's a really negative and backward way, and that's not how I want to live.

I'm not sitting dwelling about the past or stressing or fretting about something in the future.

We can feel joy even while having a bad day, a bad week, or even a bad year!

I am someone who can't hold on to negativity or hold on to grudges. I might feel something at a certain point, but I get tired after that. I don't carry it with me. I forgive and forget very easily, and that's the only way to be happy and peaceful.

If you hold onto stuff, it holds on to you. It just weighs you down, and it's a waste of energy. Why would I waste my energy on being bitter and hating when I could be using it to go out and do some really good stuff, you know?

People go forward in life. Bitterness and grudges and resentments only poison it.

I want to love myself and love my life.