Arthur Rubinstein Quotes

Focus on where you are instead of where you wish you were. The joy will follow.

To live moment to moment is the life of meditation. Then life becomes spontaneous without any effort; then nobody can make you miserable, nobody can disappoint you, nobody can make you a failure because in the first place you were not trying to be a success; you were not asking the future to be in a certain way. So whatever happens, the next moment you can rejoice. It is always your victory.

Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.

I think if you don't expect anything from the world, you'll have a lovely time.

It's so much easier to be happy. It's so much easier to choose to love the things that you have, instead of always yearning for what you're missing, or what it is that you're imagining you're missing. It is so much more peaceful.

No expectations. Ask nothing, expect nothing and accept everything, and life is very well.

When there is no expectation there is no possibility of frustration. Expectation is the mother of all frustrations; expectation gone, frustration disappears. And when there is no frustration in your life, life really becomes a bed of roses. Then God is a constant blessing; he goes on raining his grace, his beauty on you.

When we recognize that nothing has to go right for us to be happy, that people do not have to behave for us to love them, our walk home can be surprisingly simple. We have enormous power not to manipulate the world, but to be happy and to know peace.

There is no failure in life. It all depends how you take things. If you are desiring too much - you want to reach too high, and you cannot - then there is frustration and failure. But if you are not desiring anything and you are perfectly happy wherever you are, life is moment-to-moment victory.

I don't burden myself too much with others' expectations - or even my own expectations. I think your happiness grows in direct proportion to your acceptance, and in inverse proportion to your expectations. It's just a matter of putting one foot in front of the other - or doing the next right thing, so to speak.

Anyone who found the secret of rejoicing when things go well without being annoyed when they go badly would have found the point.

But the happiest people are the ones who understand that good things occur when one allows them to.

What would it be like if I could accept life--accept this moment--exactly as it is?

The thing is to be happy, no matter what. Just try that. You can. It gets to be easier and easier. It's nothing to do with circumstances. You wouldn't believe how good it is. Accept everything and then tragedy disappears. Or tragedy lightens, anyway, you're just there, going along easy in the world.

This is a day that God has given me. It's a gift. I can never relive this day. And I'm not going to live it angry, in unforgiveness, and mad at somebody. If I don't get my way, I'm going to believe that God's still in control.

When [man] is happy he takes his happiness as it comes and doesn't analyze it, just as if happiness were his right.

Be satisfied with what you have.

Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.

Happy people do not demand a lot from the world because their happiness proceeds from a place deeper than the world can touch.

Happiness is allowing yourself to be okay with what is, rather than wishing for, and bemoaning, what is not. Obviously, what is is what is supposed to be, or it would not be. The rest is just you, arguing with life.

I neither complain of the past, nor do I fear the future.

The best way to secure future happiness is to be as happy as is rightfully possible to-day.

When we put down ideas of what life should be like, we are free to wholeheartedly say yes to our life as it is.

Be content with what thou hast received, and smooth thy frowning forehead, for the door of choice is not open either to thee or me.

The seed of suffering in you may be strong, but don't wait until you have no more suffering before allowing yourself to be happy.