Orison Swett Marden Quotes

Be happy now. Don’t wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future.

Happiness is your own treasure because it lies within you.

Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.

Genuine happiness comes from within, and often it comes in spontaneous feelings of joy.

When you are happy from inside, it will reflect on your face.

True happiness is not out there. True happiness lies within.

None but those who are happy in themselves can make others so.

The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.

Our appointment with life is in the present moment. If we do not have peace and joy right now, when will we have peace and joy?

Happiness depends on what happens; joy does not.

Wherever my travels may lead, paradise is where I am.

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

I believe joy is a spiritual practice we have to work at.

Trust your happiness and the richness of your life at this moment. It is as true and as much yours as anything else that ever happened to you.

The greatest source of happiness is the ability to be grateful at all times.

Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.

Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Feeling good about yourself and your life is very important. I'm a happy woman, happy with my husband, my daughters, my grandchildren. We all get along quite well, and that keeps me centered.

What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.

Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.

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.

Look for joy in your life; it's not always easy to find.

My mind to me a kingdom is, such present joys therein I find, that it excels all other bliss.

Unending joy is actually closer to us than our own skin, and there is nothing we have to do or get or be to experience it. All we have to do is stop driving it away.