Ray Manzarek Quotes

Stop feeling sorry for yourself and you will be happy.

The hours and days you spend being annoyed or frustrated are times when you deny yourself access to life's best possibilities. When you live in anger and resentment, you cut yourself off from life's goodness.

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

What is happiness and unhappiness? It depends so little on the circumstances; it depends really only on what happens inside a person. I am grateful for every day and that makes me happy.

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.

Usually we try to figure out what we think would make us happy, and then try to make those things happen. But happiness isn't circumstance-de pendent. There are people who have every reason in the world to be happy who aren't. There are people with genuine problems who are. The key to happiness is the decision to be happy.

We are what we think, and all that we are rises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world. Speak and act with a pure mind and happiness will follow.

Happiness isn’t some elusive treasure we chase after. It’s a state of being we need to PRACTICE.

Destructive thoughts and emotions undermine the very causes of peace and happiness. If you think clearly about it, it makes no sense to think you’re seeking happiness, if you do nothing to restrain angry, spiteful, and malicious thoughts and emotions.

Gratitude feels so good because it is the state of mind closest to your natural state in which you were born to live.

When you feel good, everything around you is good, when everything around you is great, everything makes you happy. You are loving everything that is around you, because you are loving yourself.

The truth is that nothing has to happen in order for you to feel good.

Happiness is your own treasure because it lies within you.

It is a simple but sometimes forgotten truth that the greatest enemy to present joy and high hopes is the cultivation of retrospective bitterness.

Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.

It's obvious, but perhaps worth saying, that happiness has virtually nothing to do with the state of your intellect.

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.

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

If we could get your subconscious mind to agree with your conscious mind about being happy, that's when your positive thoughts work.

Happiness is when you love who you are and you are able to accept yourself and others.

Whenever you're feeling grateful, you are not feeling frustrated and angry and all those negative states that we go into. And that's a big benefit in and of itself.

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.

You can think best when you're happiest.

Felicity, the companion of content, is rather found in our own breasts than in the enjoyment of external things; and I firmly believe it requires but a little philosophy to make a man happy in whatever state he is.