Gerald Jampolsky Quotes

I'd rather be happy than right.

I'm going to make this T-Shirt up saying, 'you can either be right or be happy.'

What is happiness other than a negotiation between reality and your dreams? It's understanding that you give up something for something else. I feel like that's been how I've been trying to be happy, although in my DNA there's more of a depressed person.

As you get older, you realize happiness involves a lot of problems.

If there's one thing I've learned from traveling, it's that it is definitely more important how you are than where you are. You can say, 'Oh, I hate X city, I hate that country, or I prefer this city,' but it's a little bit up to you to find some kind of happiness.

You can't have everything you want, but you can have the things that really matter to you.

When you're passionate about something, you want it to be all it can be. But in the endgame of life, I fundamentally believe the key to happiness is letting go of that idea of perfection.

I try to recognize that there is no such thing as having it all - and it's impossible to be perfect. You just have to let certain things go.

It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.

I've realised I can be happy.

I've realized through the years that I just find happiness in other things, whether it's my dogs or my friends or, like, looking at the sunset. So if I were to wish for something else, it would just to be happy all the time, to have a superpower of not letting things affect me, and to be true to who I am, always.

I try not to get too ahead of myself. I try to be happy where I am.

If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.

I need to learn to be happy and enjoy the achievement rather than already thinking about what I could have done better.

People who have a sense of peace that their priorities are in the right place also have a sense of humility and a realistic view on life.

I focus on spiritual wealth now, and I'm busier, more enthusiastic, and more joyful than I have ever been.

It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Until you make room in your life for someone as important to you as yourself, you will always be searching and lost.

I think it's okay to feel jealous, but it's how you deal with it that's the important thing. You have to be happy for your friends when they do well because you want them to do well. It's not a competition.

I have come a long way and learnt a lot. I read this quote about a year ago: 'Happiness must not be pursued; it must ensue.' It's made me realise that just being married again or something like that won't make me happy; the happiness ensues from how we live our lives.

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

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

Working hard is a great way to impact the world, to learn, to grow, to feel accomplished, and sometimes even to find happiness, but it becomes a problem when you do so at the expense of the people closest to you.

Relationships are important, but stay focused on all the things that are important. Figure out what you want.

My worst days are still pretty good days. That's something I might lose in the moment sometimes, but I have a pretty good grasp of it.

I have no regrets in my life whatsoever.