Zen And The Art Of Happiness Quotes

#1. If you know you can do it - if you can already chart every day in your future - then why bother? Choose to do something you have more trouble imagining. Take a chance.

Gina Barreca

#2. A strong personal philosophy does more than sustain us through the tragedies of life. It also stains us daily in everything we think and do. It gives us optimism and hope.

Chris Prentiss

#3. You see, from where I stand, there are a couple of ways. You continue your journey and you will find your path or the path is already there and you aren't just able to see it.

Ackshat Deoli

#4. Learn to adapt. Things change, circumstances change. Adjust yourself and your efforts to what it is presented to you so you can respond accordingly. Never see change as a threat, because it can be an opportunity to learn, to grow, evolve and become a better person.

Rodolfo Costa

#5. Hard to restrain, unstable is this mind; it flits wherever it lists. Good it is to control the mind. A controlled mind brings happiness.

Gautama Buddha

#6. Again, all of life presents us with two basic ways to treat events. We can either label them "god for us" or "bad for us." The event is only an event. It's how we treat the event that determines what it becomes in our lives. The event doesn't make that determination- we do.

Chris Prentiss

#7. I am not likely to obtain the result flowing from the worship of God by laying myself prostrate before Satan.

Mahatma Gandhi

#8. Be pissed at me 'cause I fucked you over. That's cool, you got a right, I fucked you over and it was a shit thing to do.

Kristen Ashley

#9. Her absence had felt like torture
almost a form of personal punishment. He had nobody to discuss his feelings with, and for the first time he realised with appalling clarity what a destructive hold she had over him.

Stieg Larsson

#10. I think I've missed you all my life

L. H. Cosway

#11. The zenith of the peak of mountains has to be balanced by the nadir of the depth of the seas.

Ackshat Deoli

#12. When nothing else worked, we created a holistic, hand-tailored program that saved Pax's life. At Passages, he and I use what we learned in curing him to help other discover the roots of their addiction or alcoholism and break free.

Chris Prentiss

#13. Love is donating a chunk of your life to patch up holes in the life of another.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#14. Your actions create an "energy vortex" that draws in the necessary ingredients for your venture.

Chris Prentiss

#15. Question everything, even the question mark, that shepherd's crook floating in the air above that small round rock

If you - stubbornly - still wish to be unhappy,
maybe you can grasp it.

Dick Allen

#16. Pah!' said Sam. 'What good is there in feeling happy one day if you go back to how you were the next?'
'What harm is there?' said the giant.

Chris Priestley

#17. So here we are, in our rare and precious lives, surrounded by gorgeous moments begging to be noticed and celebrated. Go! Celebrate!

SARK

#18. The greater your character the greater your destiny.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#19. I think of the friendships I've strained, the generosity I've exploited, the bridges I've torched. Do as the heavens have done, forget your evil; with them, forgive yourself. There may be hope for me yet.

Anthony Ervin

#20. You will think me very pedantic, gentlemen, but holiday though it may be, I have not the smallest interest in any holiday, except as it celebrates real and not pretended joys.

Ralph Waldo Emerson