Louis Sachar Quotes

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

I need you to be happy. I need one of us to be happy.

And I believe happiness is the exact opposite of sadness, bitterness, and hatred: happiness should remain unexamined as long as possible.

I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.

You don’t need a reason to be happy...your desire to be so is sufficient.

My rule is, when you are unhappy, think about it. But when you're happy, don't. Why spoil it? You're probably happy for some ridiculous reason and you'd just spoil it to know it.

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.

All I can focus on is what I can control and that's being happy. My own happiness.

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.

All I got to be is be happy.

The happy man is he who turns his soul Unto the light of joys that he can find; And pays each day its just demand of toll, But shuts the future troubles from his mind.

Have the will to be well, to be happy, and to live in joy.

Why do people spend their time being sad when they could be happy?

Every day take a few minutes and focus on SEEING yourself in joy. FEEL yourself in joy. IMAGINE only joy ahead in your life and see yourself basking in it You can't be in joy if you have money worries, or health worries, or relationship problems with friends or family. So deposit some joy in the bank of the Universe as often as you can. There isn't an investment that is more worthwhile.

Happiness is available. Please help yourself to it.

I can't believe I'm breathing and happy and thriving.

Happiness is a habit—cultivate it.

Happiness is your own treasure because it lies within you.

Not enough people in this world are happy.

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

The goal of a life free of dysphoria is a snare and a delusion. A better goal is of good commerce with the world. Authentic happiness, astonishingly, can occur even in the presence of authentic sadness.

Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.

To live happily is an inward power of the soul.

It takes a lot of energy to be negative. You have to work at it. But smiling is painless. I'd rather spend my energy smiling.