Jack Kornfield Quotes

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

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

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

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.

One's happiness is very largely a question of state of mind rather than the world you are looking at.

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

Happiness is not something that happens ... It does not depend on outside events, but, rather, on how we interpret them.

Hope is not attached to outcomes but is a state of mind.

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.

Health, happiness and success depend upon the fighting spirit of each person. The big thing is not what happens to us in life, but what we do about what happens to us.

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

Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate.

I believe that we're as happy in life as we make up our minds to be.

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

Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.

The key to happiness is the decision to be happy

Happiness is a state of mind. It's just according to the way you look at things.

We do not need to become unhappy just because things don't go our way.

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

After all, the seeds of depression cannot take root in a grateful heart.

Sometimes, when I talk to someone who has just been diagnosed with cancer or some other illness, I'll remind them: "If you were honest with yourself, you were depressed before this happened. And if this were over you would be happy for a couple of weeks, a couple of months, and then something else would come along."

Let thy fortune be what it will, 'tis thy mind alone that makes thee poor or rich, miserable or happy.

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

Set your mind that no matter what is going on in your life, you will have a good attitude.