The Happy Mind Quotes

“Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers’ gardens.”
― Kevin Horsley, The Happy Mind: A Simple Guide to Living a Happier Life Starting Today

“This view of happiness may usually make people spend a lot of their present in an imaginary future. One day, they believe, happiness will descend upon them. They are ‘when-this-is-over’ happiness hunters. They are forever longing for a futuristic knight of happiness to gallop into their lives and liberate them from the present.”
― Kevin Horsley, The Happy Mind: A Simple Guide to Living a Happier Life Starting Today

“If you want someone else to behave differently, the only workable strategy is to adjust your own behaviour. You cannot productively control, own, change, press, or motivate someone else. These are things we can only do for ourselves.”
― Kevin Horsley, The Happy Mind: A Simple Guide to Living a Happier Life Starting Today

“happy people are firstly aware of the importance of being their own best friends. They are fine with being in their own company, and aren’t lonely when alone. Their most important relationship – with themselves – is intact, guilt-free, undemanding, and a calming experience.”
― Kevin Horsley, The Happy Mind: A Simple Guide to Living a Happier Life Starting Today

“Be grateful on purpose. Learn to appreciate what you have, even the small things, all of them, every day. How can you expect more from life if you aren’t even aware of what you already have?”
― Kevin Horsley, The Happy Mind: A Simple Guide to Living a Happier Life Starting Today

“Failure is seldom a single, cataclysmic event. Failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day.” — Jim Rohn”
― Kevin Horsley, The Happy Mind: A Simple Guide to Living a Happier Life Starting Today

“The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are”
― Kevin Horsley, The Happy Mind: A Simple Guide to Living a Happier Life Starting Today

“You will never change your life until you change things you do daily.” — Mike Murdock”
― Kevin Horsley, The Happy Mind: A Simple Guide to Living a Happier Life Starting Today

“For tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.”
― Kevin Horsley, The Happy Mind: A Simple Guide to Living a Happier Life Starting Today

“People who believe happiness comes ‘from the world’ often also falsely believe it originates from status. We may argue that it is related to the fascination with wealth, and sometimes it is. However, in essence it is about power, or an elevated position, in whatever form – whether related to riches or not. It is about enjoying a standing of relative authority – albeit only in appearance or title.”
― Kevin Horsley, The Happy Mind: A Simple Guide to Living a Happier Life Starting Today

“wealth brings happiness’ philosophy: Money is not the guilty party in all of this. Monetary means can in fact be valuable – and many wealthy people are happy and valued contributors to society’s wellbeing. The problem arises when money is viewed and pursued as a stand-in for true happiness.”
― Kevin Horsley, The Happy Mind: A Simple Guide to Living a Happier Life Starting Today

“Real positivism is about solving and preventing problems, not laughing them off or naively looking away when”
― Kevin Horsley, The Happy Mind: A Simple Guide to Living a Happier Life Starting Today

“Real love is not a feeling; it is giving without remembering and receiving without forgetting.”
― Kevin Horsley, The Happy Mind: A Simple Guide to Living a Happier Life Starting Today

“Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.” — Benjamin Disraeli”
― Kevin Horsley, The Happy Mind: A Simple Guide to Living a Happier Life Starting Today

“All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone." — Blaise Pascal”
― Kevin Horsley, The Happy Mind: A Simple Guide to Living a Happier Life Starting Today

“Let it go… Cut back on clutter. Happiness is rooted in simplicity. Modern society will present you with an assembly of excuses to live an emotionally complicated and inherently stressful life. Lift yourself above the noise and hold onto what’s really important. Free up your spirit. Walk away from nonsense. Clean the slate. Complexity won’t eliminate itself. It’s the ultimate hoarder – inviting more of the same! You eliminate complexity by identifying low-value glut – and throwing it off. Know what is important when you start your days. Excuse yourself from what is not important during your days. Let go of mental garbage at the end of your days.”
― Kevin Horsley, The Happy Mind: A Simple Guide to Living a Happier Life Starting Today

“philosophy that ‘decisiveness guarantees progress’.”
― Kevin Horsley, The Happy Mind: A Simple Guide to Living a Happier Life Starting Today

“Guard over your thinking, for it becomes actions. Your actions slowly turn into habits. Over time, your habits shape your character. And in the end, your character becomes your destiny. If you want to change your destiny,”
― Kevin Horsley, The Happy Mind: A Simple Guide to Living a Happier Life Starting Today

“While trying to find yourself in things, you may end up losing yourself in things.” — Eckhart Tolle”
― Kevin Horsley, The Happy Mind: A Simple Guide to Living a Happier Life Starting Today

“The ancestor of every action in your life is a thought. How we think is how our lives work out. Over time, our reality mirrors the way in which we choose to make sense of life. We structure our lives in our heads.”
― Kevin Horsley, The Happy Mind: A Simple Guide to Living a Happier Life Starting Today

“When two people don’t ‘discover’ happiness in their life partnership, one or both may bargain on a child to instil happiness in their lives. So often, people place their responsibility to be happy on an innocent infant. “A baby will solve our relationship’s inability to bring us happiness”, they believe. They in effect transfer the responsibility of two adults to create their own happiness to a baby. Eventually this effort only creates a third unhappy person – the child.”
― Kevin Horsley, The Happy Mind: A Simple Guide to Living a Happier Life Starting Today

“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”
― Kevin Horsley, The Happy Mind: A Simple Guide to Living a Happier Life Starting Today

“you want to change your destiny, change your thinking.” — Anonymous The way in which we consider and work with information in our minds influences both the visible and invisible quality of our energy.”
― Kevin Horsley, The Happy Mind: A Simple Guide to Living a Happier Life Starting Today

“your character”
― Kevin Horsley, The Happy Mind: A Simple Guide to Living a Happier Life Starting Today

“What is happiness? What causes it? How do you hold onto it? What makes it go away?”
― Kevin Horsley, The Happy Mind: A Simple Guide to Living a Happier Life Starting Today

“Never allow your laugh to become a smirk.”
― Kevin Horsley, The Happy Mind: A Simple Guide to Living a Happier Life Starting Today

“There's one sad truth in life I've found While journeying east and west – The only folks we really wound Are those we love the best. We flatter those we scarcely know, We please the fleeting guest, And deal full many a thoughtless blow To those who love us best.” — Ella Wheeler Wilcox”
― Kevin Horsley, The Happy Mind: A Simple Guide to Living a Happier Life Starting Today

“When you let go of forceful interference, your true influence increases. When you change your own behaviour, behaviour around you will change. The fewer words you use, the more people listen. The less pressure you apply, the quicker the response you hope for.”
― Kevin Horsley, The Happy Mind: A Simple Guide to Living a Happier Life Starting Today

“Happy people are energy-rich. They subject their anxieties to the authority of reason, oppose them through a spirit of compromise, and diminish them by living in peace. It allows them ease of progress in every endeavor, and they naturally do what should be done without the energy erosion accompanied by inner resistance and panic. They have an ability to accept objective solutions, as their assumptions are prejudice-lite.”
― Kevin Horsley, The Happy Mind: A Simple Guide to Living a Happier Life Starting Today

“While trying to find yourself in things, you may end up losing yourself in things.”
― Kevin Horsley, The Happy Mind: A Simple Guide to Living a Happier Life Starting Today