Henri Nouwen Quotes

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

Happiness is a choice. Choose to be happy.

When faced with the choice, choose happy.

The certain pathway to all things that you want is through the corridor of joy. Most of you say, 'When I get that I will be joyful.' And we say, until you are joyful, you will not get that. You must start with the decision-with the determination-with the insistence that, 'I will not settle for less than feeling good.'

I think I'm someone who is pretty happy with themselves and pretty content where they are in life. I want to share my happiness and hopefully enrich people's lives that I come into contact with.

It's obvious, but perhaps worth saying, that happiness has virtually nothing to do with the state of your intellect.

I think happiness is a choice. If you feel yourself being happy and can settle in to the life choices you make, then it's great. It's really, really great. I swear to God, happiness is the best makeup.

You find happiness where you find it.

I truly am living out what true joy and happiness means.

Happiness is an inside job.

Neither friends nor wealth nor learning have the power to make us glad.

I am an eternal optimist. Being happy is a choice. And you can make that choice every day, if you want to.

The key to happiness is the decision to be happy

Sometimes you have to smile by faith. If you'll smile by faith, soon the joy will follow.

Master said if you want to be happy no one in the world can take happiness from you; if you want to be unhappy, no one in the world can make you happy. So choose to be happy.

Being Grateful. That is the first step on the path to Joy.

A Sufi mystic who had always remained happy was asked.... For seventy years people had watched him, he had never been found sad. One day they asked him, 'What is the secret of your happiness?' He said, 'There is no secret. Every morning when I wake up, I meditate for five minutes and I say to myself, 'Listen, now there are two possibilities: you can be miserable, or you can be blissful. Choose.' And I always choose to be blissful.'

Happiness and love are just a choice away.

Cheerfulness is a policy; happiness is a talent.

I never could be so happy as you. Till I have your disposition, your goodness, I never can have your happiness.

Gratitude is the single most important ingredient to living a successful and fulfilled life.

The man that loves and laughs must sure do well.

The joy in life is his who has the heart to demand it.

Being joyful is a choice.

As long as thanks is possible, then joy is always possible.