Richard Rohr Quotes

I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.

You always do what you want to do. This is true with every act. You may say that you had to do something, or that you were forced to, but actually, whatever you do, you do by choice. Only you have the power to choose for yourself.

Happiness does not come from a job. It comes from knowing what you truly value, and behaving in a way that’s consistent with those beliefs. Many people today resent the suggestion that they’re in charge of the way they feel.Those people are mistaken. That was a big lesson and I learned it several hundred times before it stuck. What you do, who you’re with, and how you feel about the world around you, is completely up to you.

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

You can be smart and happy or stupid and miserable. . . it's your choice

It's your life, live it your way.

The key to your universe is that you can choose.

I'm not saying we have power over everything in our lives - if that were true, my hair would look so, so different - but I am saying that there's no circumstance in which we are completely powerless.

Every day we have plenty of opportunities to get angry, stressed or offended. But what you're doing when you indulge these negative emotions is giving something outside yourself power over your happiness. You can choose to not let little things upset you.

I don't think I've ever tried to make something happen that I've absolutely had to force. You know how they say: if you can't avoid it, enjoy it. For me, it's the other way around: if I can't enjoy it, I avoid it.

You decide the things that ultimately you do. You have choices in this world, and that's how I live.

Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.

I can choose to be happy, or choose to be miserable every day - waiting until I die.

Happiness is a decision I must make.

Happiness is not by chance, but by choice.

Choose to be happy. It is what we have all done.

Happiness is your choice. You can choose today.

It is you who are choosing, in any moment, to be happy or choosing to be sad, or choosing to be angry, or forgiving, or enlightened, or whatever. You are choosing.

Every day you have to choose and cultivate your own happiness.

Joy is what makes life worth living, but for many joy seems hard to find. They complain that their lives are sorrowful and depressing. What then brings the joy we so much desire? Are some people just lucky, while others have run out of luck? Strange as it may sound, we can choose joy. Two people can be part of the same event, but one may choose to live it quite differently than the other. One may choose to trust that what happened, painful as it may be, holds a promise. The other may choose despair and be destroyed by it. What makes us human is precisely this freedom of choice.

It’s a wonderful thing when you look inside your own heart and like what you see.

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.

We cannot lead a choiceless life. Every day, every moment, every second, there is a choice. If it were not so, we would not be individuals.

You choose happiness. You don't wait for it to choose you.