Tony Robbins Quotes

I suspect that happiness is not a state but rather a transition.

Happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.

You have to take an active role in making yourself happy. That's why I say happiness is a choice. Because you have to choose it.

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

To me, it's like happiness is about happiness, but happiness is a fight.

Depression seems to be related to fear, anger and frustration. When you're in a bad mood, even if you meet with your friends, you don't take pleasure in their company. But when you're in a good mood, even if things go wrong, you can cope with them without difficulty. This is why putting yourself in a good mood, making a point of developing a sense of loving kindness gives you greater inner strength.

Forgiving is good for your health.

Happiness is so nonsynonymous with joy or pleasure that it is not infrequently sought and felt in grief and deprivation.

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

Don't care about all the pain in front of me, cause I'm just trying to be happy.

Whatever things injure your eye you are anxious to remove; but things which affect your mind you defer.

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

I don't know what good it is to know so much and be smart as whips and all if it doesn't make you happy.

If by happiness you mean instead an ordinary contentment, then yes - I'm fairly contented. Not satisfied - contented.

There are a lot of things that I'm allowing myself to be, but it's a conscious effort to experience contentment for me. My brain doesn't do that naturally. I'm very overwhelmed all of the time.

If happiness were easy, everybody would feel it all the time, and it wouldn't seem like such an elusive prize.

Though it is folly to suppose that happiness is a matter of volition, and that we can make ourselves content and cheerful whenever we choose - a theory that many poor hypochondriacs are taunted with till they are nigh driven mad - yet, on the other hand, no sane mind is ever left without the power of self-discipline and self-control in a measure, which measure increases in proportion as it is exercised.

If you're not happy, you can become happy. Happiness is a choice.

Passively accepting your sadness is the same as forgetting to build your own happiness. Happiness is more than a mood. It's a long-lasting state that is more accurately called well-being.

I suppose happiness is something one enjoys, but I suspect that happiness is not a state but rather a transition.

I think about my own daily choices every day in terms of how to find happiness.

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.

We participate and are responsible for a lot of the things that happen to us. If you hate your job, you are much more likely to get sick and die at a younger age than someone who's happy at work and has a nice family life and is mentally well adjusted.

There are times in my life when I haven't been happy. Sometimes it's not even physical, it's something else. The key is identifying why you're unhappy and doing whatever you can to fix it in a healthy way.