Zen And The Art Of Happiness Quotes

“The best way for you to get that new experience is to change your response to what happens.”
― Chris Prentiss, Zen and the Art of Happiness

“Who you allow into the circle of your life will make the difference in the quality of your life.”
― Chris Prentiss, Zen and the Art of Happiness

“What determines each person's state of happiness or unhappiness is not the event itself, but what the event means to that person.”
― Chris Prentiss, Zen and the Art of Happiness

“The answers are never "out there." All the answers are "in there," inside you, waiting to be discovered.”
― Chris Prentiss, Zen and the Art of Happiness

“The more you engage in any type of emotion or behavior, the greater your desire for it will become.”
― Chris Prentiss, Zen and the Art of Happiness

“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, Zen and the Art of Happiness

“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

“If you feel depressed for an hour, you've produced approximately eighteen billion new cells that have more receptors calling out for depressed-type peptides and fewer calling out for feel-good peptides.”
― Chris Prentiss, Zen and the Art of Happiness

“The true source of happiness is within each of us.”
― Chris Prentiss, Zen and the Art of Happiness

“Stress comes from the way you relate to events or situations.”
― Chris Prentiss, Zen and the Art of Happiness

“Hard to restrain, unstable is this mind; it flits wherever it lists. Good it is to control the mind. A controlled mind brings happiness.”
― Buddha

“Your actions create an "energy vortex" that draws in the necessary ingredients for your venture.”
― Chris Prentiss, Zen and the Art of Happiness

“Every belief that you hold manifests itself in some manner by either causing you to take some form of action or by preventing you from taking action. If you don't believe something is possible, you won't even attempt it.”
― Chris Prentiss, Zen and the Art of Happiness

“If you are surrounded by people who not only don't believe in your goals and your positive outlook on life, but who also continually try to tear you down, it will be extremely challenging for you to hold firmly in mind that you will succeed and that you can be happy.”
― Chris Prentiss, Zen and the Art of Happiness

“You can be happy if you are willing to let go of your past and leave yourself unencumbered so you can fly freely.”
― Chris Prentiss, Zen and the Art of Happiness

“Happiness lies even in little tiny butterflies. You just have to cpen up your eyes and see where beauty flies to beautify your world lenghtwise.”
― Ana Claudia Antunes, A-Z of Happiness: Tips for Living and Breaking Through the Chain that Separates You from Getting That Dream Job

“Although you may have never sat down and defined what your philosophy is, it is fully operative and working in your life at all times. It deals with what you believe about the world in which you live, about its people and events, about how you affect them.”
― Chris Prentiss, Zen and the Art of Happiness

“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, Zen Master Poems (1)

“WU WEI

flow of Life governed by Tao
flow of change

spontaneous
natural
effortless
acting through non-action

connecting with Earth and Moon and Sun
through
being

not inert or lazy or passive
but swimming swiftly
within the current
merging Life with Tao

quiet and watchful
not-interfering
receptive alert directly connected

acting without action
trusting detached without desire
spontaneous natural effortless
Living”
― Natasa Pantovic Nuit, Tree of Life with Spiritual Poetry

“Sin is the preclusion of self-worth.”
― Benjamin Aubrey Myers

“I'm glad to get home,
but I have no worry.
If we are in a hurry
we die in the outcome.”
― Ana Claudia Antunes, The Tao of Physical and Spiritual

“how do you lead if you're being followed?”
― Benjamin Aubrey Myers

“How do you think your body and mind would respond if you were surrounded by psychologists, psychiatrists, or drug and alcohol counselors who subscribed to the belief that "once an alcoholic or addict, always an alcoholic or addict" and who believed that your current stay in rehab would be one of many?”
― Chris Prentiss, Zen and the Art of Happiness

“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, Zen and the Art of Happiness

“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

“Happiness lies even in ltiny ittle butterflies. You just have to open up your eyes and see where beauty flies to beautify your world lenghtwise.”
― Ana Claudia Antunes, A-Z of Happiness: Tips for Living and Breaking Through the Chain that Separates You from Getting That Dream Job

“Happiness lies even in tiny little butterflies. You just have to open up your eyes and see where beauty flies to beautify your world lenghtwise.”
― Ana Claudia Antunes, A-Z of Happiness: Tips for Living and Breaking Through the Chain that Separates You from Getting That Dream Job

“You don´t have to let it linger
Within the palm of your hand,
The tip's already in your finger:
All beginning comes to an end.”
― Ana Claudia Antunes, A-Z of Happiness: Tips for Living and Breaking Through the Chain that Separates You from Getting That Dream Job

“The zenith of the peak of mountains has to be balanced by the nadir of the depth of the seas.”
― Ackshat Deoli, Kilol-Bruges Express: The Fading Nomad

“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, Kilol-Bruges Express: The Fading Nomad