Quotes About Choice

I am not in favor of imposing happiness on people. Everyone has a right to his bad wine, to his stupidity, and to his dirty fingernails.

Gratitude is a choice. Happiness is an attitude.

And if you don´t commit? I asked. Your choice. But you miss what´s on the other side. What´s on the other side? "Ah" he smiled. "A happiness you cannot find alone

The first step toward happiness is to determine to be happy.

A person can either do something in order to be happy, or... a person can start the day by simply deciding to BE happy and the things that person will do will automatically reflect that.

Every one has time if he likes. Business runs after nobody: people cling to it of their own free will and think that to be busy is a proof of happiness.

I'm happier. I guess I made up my mind to be that way.

So much of what determines our happiness, I believe, is who we choose as our intimates.

Happiness is actually an individual choice, even in the midst of negative circumstances. It's not something our employers can give to us, though they can limit and influence that choice.

Happiness lies in your own hand

Happiness is so awfully complicated, but freedom isn't. You're either tied down or you're not.

Happiness is a decision I must make.

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.

It is you who are choosing, in any moment, to be happy or choosing to be sad, or choosing to be angry, or forgiving, or enlightened, or whatever. You are choosing.

It's not a question of happiness, it's a requirement. Consider the alternative.

Happiness will depend on what each of us does with what each has, what we learn from what we do, and what we do thereafter.

We ne'er can be Made happy by compulsion.

Choice is illusion, same as happiness and freedom.

Happiness is separate from daily experience. If picking the right door on the game show makes you happy, then you will be unhappy in the future because eventually you will pick a wrong door.

'Tis what I love determines how I love.

Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home… it's your responsibility to love it, or change it.

Happy are those who choose, those who accept being chosen, the handsome heroes, the handsome saints, the perfect escapists.

Happiness isn't expensive, it just costs your will...