Francis Chan Quotes

Happiness is a habit—cultivate it.

Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.

The first person who ever told me that happiness was work was this manic-depressive artist I knew when I was in my 20s. I was like, 'What are you talking about? Happiness just happens. That's even the root of that word. How could it be work?'

Happiness is not something you achieve. It's not something you do or someplace you get to. Happiness is something you inhabit.

The key to happiness is the decision to be happy

To me, it's like happiness is about happiness, but happiness is a fight.

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.

Happiness is a hardy annual.

Learn how to feel joy.

But I am happy. And happiness, I have decided, is a noble ambition.

Happiness is your choice. You can choose today.

Happiness depends on what happens; joy does not.

Being joyful is a choice.

And if you could make a choice, then why not pick happiness?

Happiness is the most important thing.

Our joy does not have to be based on our circumstances.

Happiness never becomes a habit.

I take happiness very seriously. It is a creed, a philosophy and an objective.

Do we find happiness so often that we should turn it off the box when it happens to sit there?

Happiness is not an end - it is only a means, and adjunct, a consequence.

Happiness is a work of art. Handle with care.

Happiness is the ultimate goal. It is the goal of all other goals.

I never understood the point of being sad when I could choose to be happy

Happiness is an art that one has to learn. It has nothing to do with your doing or not doing.