Bernard Malamud Quotes

Happiness is a state of mind. You can be happy or you can be unhappy.

If we think happy thoughts, we will be happy. If we think miserable thoughts, we will be miserable.

It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.

If you cannot concentrate, you are not so happy.

I guess I don't think there's any reason to feel guilty about having joy in your life, regardless of how bad things are in the world.

Everything is based on mind, is led by mind, is fashioned by mind. If you speak and act with a polluted mind, suffering will follow you, as the wheels of the oxcart follow the footsteps of the ox. Everything is based on mind, is led by mind, is fashioned by mind. If you speak and act with a pure mind, happiness will follow you, as a shadow clings to a form.

You have a choice everyday... You can choose every morning whether you will be depressed and miserable, or whether you will be happy.

Start thinking happy thoughts and start being happy.

Many pains are imaginary, but all joys are real.

If you're not happy, you can become happy. Happiness is a choice.

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

It's not what we believe that makes us happy but the act of believing. In anything.

To the happy all things come: happiness can even bring the dead back to life. It is our resentments, our dreariness, our hate and envy, unrecognized by us, which keeps us miserable. Yet these things are in our heads, not out of our hands; we own them. We can throw them out if we choose.

Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit.

Happiness is determined more by one's state of mind than by external events.

The truth is that nothing has to happen in order for you to feel good.

It is not events and the things one sees and enjoys that produce happiness, but a state of mind which can endow events with its own quality, and we must hope for the duration of this state rather than the recurrence of pleasurable events.

Happiness is a state of mind, so the real source of happiness must lie within the mind, not in external conditions.

The greatest enemies of success and happiness are negative emotions of all kinds.

The greatest misfortune that can come to a human being is to lose his inner peace. No outer force can rob him of it. It is his own thoughts, his own actions, that rob him of it.

The sovereign voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our spontaneous cheerfulness be lost, is to sit up cheerfully, to look round cheerfully, and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there. If such conduct does not make you soon feel cheerful, nothing else on that occasion can.

No one can grant you happiness. Happiness is a choice we all have the power to make.

Let a series of happy thoughts run through your mind. They will show on your face.

You are about as happy as you make up your mind to be.

Happiness isn't something that depends on our surroundings... It's something we make inside ourselves.