32 Quotes About Zen-and-the-art-of-happiness

There is only one way to achieve lasting happiness. That is simply: Be happy.

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.

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.

The zenith of the peak of mountains has to be balanced by the nadir of the depth of the seas.

What determines each person's state of happiness or unhappiness is not the event itself, but what the event means to that person.

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.

The answers are never "out there." All the answers are "in there," inside you, waiting to be discovered.

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.

The true source of happiness is within each of us.