Samuel Johnson Quotes

Happiness lies in the consciousness we have of it.

Happiness is a state of which you are unconscious. The moment you are aware that you are happy, you cease to be happy.

The happiest people in this world are those who have the most interesting thoughts.

Happiness is not a matter of events; it depends upon the tides of the mind.

Be careful what you think, because your thoughts run your life. Do you want to be happy tomorrow? Then sow seeds of happiness today -count blessings, memorize Bible verses, pray, sing hymns, spend time with encouraging people. Do you want to guarantee tomorrow's misery? Then wallow in a mental mud pit of self-pity or guilt or anxiety today assume the worst, beat yourself up, rehearse your regrets, complain to complainers.

A person can make himself happy, or miserable, regardless of what is actually happening 'outside,' just by changing the contents of consciousness.

When you happy, you get locked in sleep. You get sleepy happy. I always wanna be on point. I always wanna be aware.

I am happy and content because I think I am.

Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.

Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.

One's happiness depends less on what he knows than on what he feels.

I've realized I can't waste any moment being unhappy.

Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.

All you need to do is turn on the news, and in five minutes, you're depressed with the state of the world. Choosing joy is a completely active choice. It doesn't just happen. You can't just say, 'I want to be happy.' You have to take action.

Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.

I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.

It's a conscious decision, a full-time job, to be happy.

One thing that I think most people don't notice is that if you're sitting around telling yourself, 'I want to be happier,' there's a kind of subconscious message that you're also telling yourself at the same time, which is, 'What I have is not enough.'

People don't know when they are happy. They're never so unhappy as they think they are.

The thought is not something that observes an inner event, but, rather it is this inner event itself. We do not reflect on something, but, rather, something thinks itself in us.

Every thought is an afterthought.

Happiness is an abstraction, it is a product of the imagination, it is a way of being moved, which depends entirely on our way of seeing and feeling.

If you are not in the state of either acceptance, enjoyment, or enthusiasm, look closely and you will find that you are creating suffering for yourself and others.

The world of the happy is quite different from that of the unhappy.

Happiness is a state of mind.