Chogyam Trungpa Quotes

Happiness is not so much a feeling as it is an attitude

Happiness mainly comes from our own attitude, rather than from external factors.

THE KEY TO SUCCESS is not what you do, it is how you feel about what you are doing. Success begins with a positive attitude, it is the most valuable asset we may own. Success begins with a good feeling about where we are and a positive attitude about where we want to be.

Attitude precedes service. Your positive mental attitude is the basis for the way you act and react to people. 'You become what you think about' is the foundation of your actions and reactions. What are your thoughts? Positive all the time? How are you guiding them?

It isn’t what you have or who you are or where you are or what you’re doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It’s what you think of it. Two people may in the same place doing the same thing, and yet one may be miserable and the other happy. Why? Because of a different mental attitude.

Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate.

There are seeds of happiness planted in every human soul. Our mental attitude and disposition constitute the environment in which these seeds may germinate.

Life is good when we think it's good. Life is bad when we don't think.

I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

Your attitude is everything, and it determines how you experience every aspect of your life

The basic root of happiness lies in our minds; outer circumstances are nothing more than adverse or favourable.

If your own mental attitude is correct, even if you remain in a hostile atmosphere, you feel happy.

If your thoughts are thoughts that draw low-frequency energy current to you, your physical and emotional attitudes will deteriorate, and emotional or physical disease will follow, whereas thoughts that draw high-frequency energy current to you create physical and emotional health.

Happiness is a choice we make. You can wake up and say, 'Oh, I can't believe it's so cold,' or you can say, 'Oh, wow, this is a great opportunity for me to try out my new sweater.' No one can be consistently positive, but why not make the choice that makes you feel better rather than the one that drags you down?

It is not our level of prosperity that makes for happiness but the kinship of heart to heart and the way we look at the world. Both attitudes lie within our power, so that a man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy, and no one can stop him.

The attitude, and the mind, is where it all starts.

You can make yourself enthusiastic by affirming enthusiasm and by thinking, talking, acting enthusiastic.

Thoughts that bring about good feelings mean you are on the right track. Thoughts that bring about bad feelings means you are not on the right track.

Positive attitude is the foundation of your life - and the determining factor of your ability to serve.

Good thinking brings good feeling and good feeling brings good thinking.

Your state of mind is everything.

What is a positive attitude? The simple definition is the way you dedicate yourself to the way you think. Interestingly, it's also the definition of a negative attitude.

If you are worried or afraid of anything, there is something in your mental attitude that needs correction.

People who have great lives think and talk about what they love more than what they don't love. And people who are struggling, think and talk about what they don't love more than what they do love.

Happiness is largely an attitude of mind, of viewing life from the right angle.