Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quotes

Happiness is your choice. You can choose today.

I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.

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

I think we're as happy as we make up our minds to be.

If you want to be happy, be.

Happiness is in our own hearts. I have no regrets of anything in the past. I'm totally cheerful and happy, and I think that a lot of your attitude is not in the circumstances you find yourself in, but in the circumstances you make for yourself.

I always find a reason to be happy before I sleep. For me, happiness is a choice that is in your hands.

Happiness is a decision I must make.

Choose to be happy. It is what we have all done.

If we are to make life into a pleasure rather than a struggle, then I would suggest that we have to start with our own mental attitudes.

Things don't weigh me down any more. I confront things, and I move on. I don't dwell on things; I don't let things simmer under the surface. I am where it starts and where it ends. I have the power in my life to be happy.

We choose what attitudes we have right now. And it's a continuing choice.

Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.

To be happy when you are travelling, you need to be happy inside before you leave. A positive frame of mind will definitely enhance your travelling experience. If I'm not in a positive frame of mind then the whole thing definitely becomes more of a challenge for me.

I'm a very positive person. My grandmother taught me that happiness is both a skill and a decision, and you are responsible for the outcome.

You have a choice whether you want to be happy or not. I choose to be happy.

Happiness is a choice. You can choose to be happy. There's going to be stress in life, but it's your choice whether you let it affect you or not.

Everything is generated through your own will power.

My theory on life is that life is beautiful. Life doesn't change. You have a day, and a night, and a month, and a year. We people change - we can be miserable or we can be happy. It's what you make of your life.

No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent.

Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.

In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.

Now, everything I do, I do because I want to. And I believe the best is yet to come.

I can be whoever I want. I can feel however I want.

You are the only thing holding you back from happiness. You have the ability to change your life radically for better or worse.