Don Miguel Ruiz Quotes

Happiness is not a feeling, it is a choice. To be happy, one must choose to be happy, not respond to a circumstance that now controls your happiness.

There is really no reason to suffer. The only reason you suffer is because you choose to suffer. If you look at your life you will find many excuses to suffer, but a good reason to suffer you will not find. The same is true for happiness. The only reason you are happy is because you choose to be happy. Happiness is a choice, and so is suffering.

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

Happiness is a choice, not a result. Nothing will make you happy until you choose to be happy.

Happiness does not depend on your circumstances; it depends on your will. It's a choice that you make.

Happiness is a choice. Choose to be happy.

Happiness is your choice. You can choose today.

You have to take an active role in making yourself happy. That's why I say happiness is a choice. Because you have to choose it.

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

Happiness is a choice; not just a matter of genes or good luck.

The certain pathway to all things that you want is through the corridor of joy. Most of you say, 'When I get that I will be joyful.' And we say, until you are joyful, you will not get that. You must start with the decision-with the determination-with the insistence that, 'I will not settle for less than feeling good.'

Happiness is a decision.

Master said if you want to be happy no one in the world can take happiness from you; if you want to be unhappy, no one in the world can make you happy. So choose to be happy.

Decide to be happy, knowing it's an attitude, a habit gained from daily practice, and not a result or payoff.

Happiness is the best revenge, you know? Just be happy. It's a choice.

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.

Pain comes like the weather, but joy is a choice.

Guard your good mood.

The trick is not how much pain you feel - but how much joy you feel

Being happy is the cornerstone of all that you are! Nothing is more important than that you feel good! And you have absolute and utter control about that because you can choose the thought that makes you worry or the thought that makes you happy; the things that thrill you, or the things that worry you. You have the choice in every moment.

Happiness is a choice.

I've realized that being happy is a choice.

Whether your life is happy or not is your own choice.

Happy people build their inner world; unhappy people blame their outer world.

Because I always have a choice, I choose love.