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I absolutely think that happiness is a choice. One of the most potent forces in human psychology is the power of habit. Do something, think something, often enough and it will become the only thing you can do or think. Choose to be unhappy and soon that’s all you will be. Live in a swamp and you’ll grow webbed feet.
Sep 30, 2025
If you're not happy, you can become happy. Happiness is a choice.
I swear to god; happiness is the best makeup.
I now discover how wonderful I am. I choose to love and enjoy myself.
Happiness is a choice. You have to choose it - and you have to fight for it.
Gratefulness is a practice, just like happiness is a choice.
Scientifically, happiness is a choice. It is a choice about where your single processor brain will devote its finite resources as you process the world.
Whenever you notice your thoughts detour into attack mode, say out loud or to yourself: Happiness is a choice I make.
Happiness is a choice we make. You can wake up and say, 'Oh, I can't believe it's so cold,' or you can say, 'Oh, wow, this is a great opportunity for me to try out my new sweater.' No one can be consistently positive, but why not make the choice that makes you feel better rather than the one that drags you down?
Nothing real stands between you and your happiness, only illusion and confusion.
The only reason you are happy is because you choose to be happy. Happiness is a choice, and so is suffering.
Happiness is a choice.
I think happiness is a choice. If you feel yourself being happy and can settle in to the life choices you make, then it's great. It's really, really great. I swear to God, happiness is the best makeup.
Choosing love will bring you great joy and great happiness - that happiness is a choice you make.
Happiness is not determined by what's happening around you, but rather what's happening inside you. Most people depend on others to gain happiness, but the truth is, it always comes from within.
The belief that happiness has to be deserved has led to centuries of pain, guilt, and deception. So firmly have we clung to this single, illusory belief that we've almost forgotten the real truth about happiness. So busy are we trying to deserve happiness that we no longer have much time for ideas such as: Happiness is natural, happiness is a birthright, happiness is free, happiness is a choice, happiness is within, and happiness is being. The moment you believe that happiness has to be deserved, you must toil forevermore.
Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.
Happiness is a choice. You can choose to be happy. There's going to be stress in life, but it's your choice whether you let it affect you or not.
Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.
If you want to be happy, be.
In life, one has a choice to take one of two paths: to wait for some special day-or to celebrate each special day.
Life will bring you pain all by itself. Your responsibility is to create joy.
You may think that if someone else doesn't change, you can never be happy. But if you change, you can be happy no matter what.
Happiness is a choice, not a result. Nothing will make you happy until you choose to be happy.
What's the good of dragging up sufferings which are over, of being unhappy now just because you were then.
Stop giving someone else the job of making you happy.
The road to happiness lies in two simple principles: find what it is that interests you and that you can do well, and when you find it put your whole soul into it-every bit of energy and ambition and natural ability you have.
When we decide to be happy we accept the responsibility to bring happiness to someone else. Some decide that happiness and glee are the same thing, they are not. When we choose happiness we accept the responsibility to lighten the load of someone else and to be a light on the path to another who may be walking in darkness.
You don’t need a reason to be happy...your desire to be so is sufficient.
Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.
Happiness is always possible - the only thing that really holds you back is your mind. You have probably already noticed that the happiest times in your life are when you are not thinking. It's a wonderful thing to stand outside your ego, to surrender to the flow, and to participate fully in a hobby, in nature, in meditation, in prayer, in art, in dance, in sport, and in the moment.
You have to believe in happiness, or happiness never comes.
You have two choices: You can make a living, or you can design a life.
Find joy in the ordinary.
When you're Happy for No Reason, you bring happiness to your outer experiences rather than trying to extract happiness from them. You don't need to manipulate the world around you to try to make yourself happy. You live from happiness, rather than for happiness.
Happiness is wanting what you have.
Happiness is a choice, not a result. Nothing will make you happy until you choose to be happy. No person will make you happy unless you decide to be happy. Your happiness will not come to you. It can only come from you.
You must try to generate happiness within yourself. If you aren't happy in one place, chances are you won't be happy anyplace.
To get up each morning with the resolve to be happy ... is to condition circumstances instead of being conditioned by them.
Happiness is not by chance, but by choice.
Joy seems to me a step beyond happiness- happiness is a sort of atmosphere you can live in sometimes when you're lucky. Joy is a light that fills you with hope and faith and love.
Happiness is a way of travel – not a destination.
Ultimately, happiness comes down to choosing between the discomfort of becoming aware of your mental afflictions and the discomfort of being ruled by them.
Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or objects.
Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections.
Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.
There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
For most people to be happy, there has to be a person, place, or thing involved in their happiness. In true happiness, there are no things involved. It's a natural state. You will abide in that state forever.
Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.