Paulo Coelho Quotes

Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.

I'm just happy. I'm just me right now.

I've learned that men and women who are living wholehearted lives really allow themselves to soften into joy and happiness. They allow themselves to experience it.

Ever since I was a kid, I've always thought it very important to be happy inside. There's a lot of bad things happening in the world, but it's important to try to stay happy and appreciate what you've got, and don't look externally for the happiness.

To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.

The secret to life is finding joy in ordinary things. I'm interested in happiness.

I gave up my struggle with perfection a long time ago. That is a concept I don't find very interesting anymore. Everyone just wants to look good in the photographs. I think that is where some of the pressure comes from. Be happy. Be yourself, the day is about a lot more.

I've realised I can be happy.

I'm at peace with my family, my friends, myself and God so there's really nothing else that I worry about.

Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are.

I'm being all of me, and it feels stupendous. I don't want to leave this feeling.

I've realized through the years that I just find happiness in other things, whether it's my dogs or my friends or, like, looking at the sunset. So if I were to wish for something else, it would just to be happy all the time, to have a superpower of not letting things affect me, and to be true to who I am, always.

A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.

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

Once you get to that point when you can just be yourself and relax, I just think that you're so much happier in general.

My faith helps me understand that circumstances don't dictate my happiness, my inner peace.

Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it.

I need to learn to smile more.

We experience happiness as a series of pleasing moments. They come and go like clouds, unpredictable, fleeting, and without responsibility to our desires. Through honest self-work, reflection, and meditation, we begin to string more of these moments together, creating a web-like design of happiness that drapes around our lives.

Just be yourself, and enjoy the blessings that God's borne out on you.

Be content with who you are and where you are, and do whatever you can do to bring to others such contentment, and joy, and understanding that you have managed to find yourself.

Happiness is your own treasure because it lies within you.

If you don't embrace who you are and accept who you are, you won't be able to live a happy life.

I realize I never stand out in a room unless I'm feeling balanced, centered and happy. It sounds really corny but it's very, very true.

I am happy and content because I think I am.