Bernie Siegel Quotes

Happiness comes, I know, from some spring within a man — from some curious adjustment to life.

I think about my own daily choices every day in terms of how to find happiness.

The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great, and they know I know it.

Look for joy in your life; it's not always easy to find.

I've found joy, peace and perspective. Those are very good things to have.

I think the happiness we find, we make.

Happiness is an inside job.

Know your own happiness.

Happiness is your own treasure because it lies within you.

To live happily is an inward power of the soul.

Happiness is the first principle of life. Happiness basically means well-being. It is always good and always a choice... We need to make the choice to be happy in a particular situation, just as it is, and at a given moment.

Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life.

There are times in my life when I haven't been happy. Sometimes it's not even physical, it's something else. The key is identifying why you're unhappy and doing whatever you can to fix it in a healthy way.

I try to live by the rule do what makes you happy.

Certainly, we all have within us the potential to live in a hugely different way. And how happy you can make yourself, I think, a lot depends on how much you beat yourself up about that; and how much you can, in some sort of providential way, console yourself and say, 'Well, it's all worked out for the best, in the best of all possible worlds.'

I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true.

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.

The first person who ever told me that happiness was work was this manic-depressive artist I knew when I was in my 20s. I was like, 'What are you talking about? Happiness just happens. That's even the root of that word. How could it be work?'

If you carry joy in your heart, you can heal any moment.

I've realised I can be happy.

The happiest people in this world are those who have the most interesting thoughts.

Fortunately, I don't spend too much time reading or worrying about what people have to say, but the goal for me throughout this whole process - throughout my whole life - is to try to be happy.

You find happiness where you find it.

We all want to be happy. We need to expand the notion of what that means, to make it bigger and wiser.

All you need to do is turn on the news, and in five minutes, you're depressed with the state of the world. Choosing joy is a completely active choice. It doesn't just happen. You can't just say, 'I want to be happy.' You have to take action.