Neale Donald Walsch Quotes

Teach your children that they need nothing exterior to themselves to be happy, no person, place or thing, and that true happiness is found within.

There is no happiness outside of ourselves.

Take whatever cause for outward happiness you might have and take it within yourself, so that, if the sun should go out, you will not be any less happy; if the birds stop singing you will not be any less happy.

There is no external means, whether it's my career, or money or house or a wife or anything, that is going to set me right.

You can have everything in the world, but if you aren't happy within yourself, it's not worth it.

It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.

All the happiness you ever find lies in you.

It's what's in *yourself* that makes you happy or unhappy.

Sometimes we get wrong notions, we think we have to be in a luxurious house, in a large city, with a new car in order to be happy. Happiness isn't there. Happiness isn't in a new car, it isn't in a new and luxurious apartment. Happiness isn't in banks and stocks. Happiness is where you make it, it's up to you. It comes from within, it doesn't come from things.

Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside.

I believe I know the only cure, which is to make one’s center of life inside of one’s self, not selfishly or excludingly, but with a kind of unassailable serenity—to decorate one’s inner house so richly that one is content there, glad to welcome anyone who wants to come and stay, but happy all the same when one is inevitably alone.

Find your happiness in yourself.

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.

I don't need a person to make me happy.

What would you be like if you were the only person in the world? If you want to be truly happy you must be that person.

True happiness is not out there. True happiness lies within.

Happiness does not come from without, it comes from within

Paradise is here or nowhere: you must take your joy with you or you will never find it.

I don't think... one get a flash of happiness once, and never again; it is there deep within you.

You have so much inside you, and the noblest happiness of all. Don’t just wait for a man to come along. That’s the mistake so many women make. Find your happiness in yourself.

People who are really happy do not concern themselves with convincing others of the fact.

So you know how things stand. Now forget what they think of you. Be satisfied if you can live the rest of your life, however short, as your nature demands. Focus on that, and don't let anything distract you. You've wandered all over and finally realized that you never found what you were after: how to live. Not in syllogisms, not in money, or fame, or self-indulgence. Nowhere.

We have been accustomed to thinking that we have to get something from outside us in order to be happy, but in truth it works the other way: we must learn to contact our inner source of happiness and satisfaction and flow it outward to share with others-not because it is virtuous to do so, but because it really feels good.

Riches can all be lost, but that happiness in your own heart can only be veiled, and it will bring you happiness again, as long as you live.

It's very easy to look for happiness outside ourselves; in a relationship, a dream job, or the perfect body weight. When we chase happiness externally, we're simply looking for God in all the wrong places. The outside search is based on false projections we place on the world. These projections build up a wall against true happiness, which lies within us.