John Bytheway Quotes

To become successful, first learn how to be happy. Too many think that the route to happiness is to get successful

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.

Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.

Happiness has little to do with what is going on around you, and a lot to do with what is going on inside you.

The only failure is not knowing how to be happy."---My Story

Every day there is only one thing to learn: how to be honestly happy.

You won't be happy anywhere until you're happy somewhere.

In this regard, pleasure is an event; happiness is a process. Pleasure is an end point; happiness is the journey. Pleasure is material; happiness is spiritual. Pleasure is self-involved; happiness is outer- and other-involved.

Happiness is your own treasure because it lies within you.

You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.

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

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

It's when I let myself get little that I tumble head over heels into joy.

Happiness must ensue. It cannot be pursued

You will do well to cultivate the resources in yourself that bring you happiness outside of success or failure.

I'm so lucky to be crazy happy in my life. And I think it's not so much that I'm happier now than ever; it's that I'm more content. I'm in the harbor of my life.

Money will never make you happy if you are an unhappy person.

Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions. Vigilantly practice polite indifference to that which we can't control. Your happiness can only be found within.

It's not the job of this town to make me feel happy. It's not this town´s fault that I don't feel I fit in. It doesn't matter where you are in the world, because it's about where you are in your head. It's about the other world I inhabit. The world of dreams, hope, imagination, and memories. I'm happy up here, and because of that I'm happy up there too

Only it takes time to be happy. A lot of time. Happiness, too, is a long patience.

Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition. Your qualifications are not your life.

Work has enhanced and certainly supported my feelings toward myself, because it's been a reflection of goals I've set. But if you're not happy with yourself on the inside, then what does it matter?

One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.

These days, in our materialistic culture, many people are led to believe that money is the ultimate source of happiness. Consequently, when they don’t have enough of it they feel let down. Therefore, it is important to let people know that they have the source of contentment and happiness within themselves, and that it is related to nurturing our natural inner values.

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