Don Miguel Ruiz Quotes

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Happiness is a choice. Choose to be happy.

Happiness is your choice. You can choose today.

Whether your life is happy or not is your own 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.

Happiness is not by chance, but by choice.

Heaven is living in your hopes and Hell is living in your fears. It's up to each individual which one he chooses.

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.'

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.

The world we live in is the world we choose to live in, whether consciously or unconsciously. If we choose bliss, that's what we get. If we choose misery, we get that, too.

I've realized that being happy is a choice.

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

Happiness is a decision.

Happiness is actually an individual choice, even in the midst of negative circumstances. It's not something our employers can give to us, though they can limit and influence that choice.

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

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

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

The real enemy of happiness is the mind's fixations and delusions... If you have the right mind, you can overcome anything - you can be happy, no matter what.

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