The Courage to be Happy Quotes

“God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can and wisdom always to tell the difference.”
― Ichiro Kishimi, The Courage to be Happy: True Contentment Is In Your Power

“The past you speak of is nothing more than a story skilfully compiled by ‘you now’. Please understand this point.”
― Ichiro Kishimi, The Courage to be Happy: True Contentment Is In Your Power

“Don’t be afraid of other people looking at you, don’t pay attention to other people’s judgement and don’t seek recognition from other people. Just choose the path that is best for you and that you believe in. Furthermore, you must not intervene in other people’s tasks, and you must not allow others to intervene in your tasks, either.”
― Ichiro Kishimi, The Courage to be Happy: True Contentment Is In Your Power

“PHILOSOPHER: Instead of seeking approval, one has to approve oneself, with one’s own mind.”
― Ichiro Kishimi, The Courage to be Happy: True Contentment Is In Your Power

“PHILOSOPHER: As Fromm says, ‘While one is consciously afraid of not being loved, the real, though usually unconscious fear is that of loving.’ And then he continues by stating, ‘To love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely. Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.”
― Ichiro Kishimi, The Courage to be Happy: True Contentment Is In Your Power

“The attitude of the need for approval, of trying to get another person to decide one’s worth, is just dependence.”
― Ichiro Kishimi, The Courage to be Happy: True Contentment Is In Your Power

“There are many adults who treat their own weakness or misfortune, their hurt, troubled background and trauma, as a weapon and plot how they will control other people. They will try to control others by making them worry and by restricting their own words and actions.”
― Ichiro Kishimi, The Courage to be Happy: True Contentment Is In Your Power

“I (Socrates) know that ‘my knowledge is not complete’. I know my own ignorance. The Sophists, on the other hand, those would-be wise men, intend to understand everything and know nothing of their own ignorance. In this respect—my knowledge of my own ignorance—I am more of a wise man than they are. This is the context of Socrates’ famous statement, ‘I know that I know nothing.”
― Ichiro Kishimi, The Courage to be Happy: True Contentment Is In Your Power

“He is saying not just to love one’s neighbour, but to love them as much as one loves oneself. If one cannot love oneself, one cannot love others. If one cannot believe in oneself, one cannot believe in others. Please think of the phrase as carrying that connotation. You are insisting that you cannot believe in other people, but that is because you have not managed to truly believe in yourself.”
― Ichiro Kishimi, The Courage to be Happy: True Contentment Is In Your Power

“The birth of society is, in other words, the birth of suffering.”
― Ichiro Kishimi, The Courage to be Happy: True Contentment Is In Your Power

“Place value on the person being that person without pushing your own value system on them. And further, assist in their growth or unfolding. That is precisely what respect is. In the attitude of trying to manipulate or correct another person, there is no respect whatsoever.”
― Ichiro Kishimi, The Courage to be Happy: True Contentment Is In Your Power

“We have to get past our obstinate self-centredness and stop trying to be the centre of the world. One has to break away from ‘me’. One has to break away from one’s pampered childhood lifestyle.”
― Ichiro Kishimi, The Courage to be Happy: True Contentment Is In Your Power

“Being self-centred does not mean looking only at oneself because one likes oneself. In actuality, the opposite is the case, and it is because one is unable to accept oneself as one is, and because one is constantly beset with anxiety, that one has concern only for oneself.”
― Ichiro Kishimi, The Courage to be Happy: True Contentment Is In Your Power

“Viewed from the standpoint of the division of labour, all professions are honourable”
― Ichiro Kishimi, The Courage to be Happy: True Contentment Is In Your Power

“The world is simple, and life is too.’ ‘But keeping it simple is difficult, and it is there that the passage of days become one’s trial.”
― Ichiro Kishimi, The Courage to be Happy: True Contentment Is In Your Power

“That is why you end up assuming that in a love relationship, you will definitely get hurt or definitely feel miserable. Because you think that there couldn’t be anyone who could love someone like you.”
― Ichiro Kishimi, The Courage to be Happy: True Contentment Is In Your Power

“Could you respect an immature human being? And could you have a real feeling of being respected by someone who threatens you in a violent manner? There is no respect in communication with anger and violence. Rather, such communication invites contempt. That reprimand does not lead to substantive improvement is a self-evident truth.”
― Ichiro Kishimi, The Courage to be Happy: True Contentment Is In Your Power

“In every way, violence is a low-cost, easy means of communication. But before deeming it morally unacceptable, we must say that it is a rather immature form of conduct for people to engage in.”
― Ichiro Kishimi, The Courage to be Happy: True Contentment Is In Your Power

“What is change?’ If we go out on a limb and use an extreme expression, carrying out change is ‘death itself’.”
― Ichiro Kishimi, The Courage to be Happy: True Contentment Is In Your Power

“The children are not obeying you, they are only submitting to authority. They do not entertain the slightest thought of understanding you. They just cover their ears and shut their eyes and wait for the storm of your rage to pass.”
― Ichiro Kishimi, The Courage to be Happy: True Contentment Is In Your Power

“Respect denotes the ability to see a person as he is; to be aware of his unique individuality.”
― Ichiro Kishimi, The Courage to be Happy: True Contentment Is In Your Power

“Love is self-reliance. It is to become an adult. That's why love is difficult”
― Ichiro Kishimi, The Courage to be Happy: True Contentment Is In Your Power

“Destiny is something you create with your own two hands.”
― Ichiro Kishimi, The Courage to be Happy: True Contentment Is In Your Power

“Children are not cruel—it’s just that they don’t know. They do not know what life is worth, or about other people’s pain.”
― Ichiro Kishimi, The Courage to be Happy: True Contentment Is In Your Power

“Seeing with the eyes of another, listening with the ears of another and feeling with the heart of another.”
― Ichiro Kishimi, The Courage to be Happy: True Contentment Is In Your Power

“Rather than simply playing with them, enjoy the activity yourself. If you do, the children may at last have the real feeling that they are being recognised; that they are not being treated as children; that they are being given respect as individual human beings.”
― Ichiro Kishimi, The Courage to be Happy: True Contentment Is In Your Power

“There are the following two objectives for behaviour: 1. To be self-reliant 2. To live in harmony with society”
― Ichiro Kishimi, The Courage to be Happy: True Contentment Is In Your Power

“«Señor, concédeme la serenidad para aceptar las cosas que no puedo cambiar, el valor para cambiar las cosas que puedo cambiar y la sabiduría para conocer la diferencia».”
― Ichiro Kishimi, Atrévete a ser feliz: Descubre el poder de la psicología positiva y elige ser feliz cada día (Autoayuda y superación)

“You are the only one who can change yourself”
― Ichiro Kishimi, Fumitake Koga, The Courage to be Happy: True Contentment Is In Your Power

“You are not living to satisfy other people’s expectations.” And further, “Other people are not living to satisfy your expectations.”
― Ichiro Kishimi, The Courage to Be Happy: Discover the Power of Positive Psychology and Choose Happiness Every Day