Albert Camus Quotes

The business of being happy requires making a conscious choice. People think being happy will just happen to them someday, if only they do this or that right. But it doesn't - you have to choose it. You choose happiness, you don't wait for it to choose you.

Because I always have a choice, I choose love.

You can be smart and happy or stupid and miserable. . . it's your choice

Whenever you notice your thoughts detour into attack mode, say out loud or to yourself: Happiness is a choice I make.

I always thought happiness was a choice and I always chose things that made me happy, and books were one of those.

Consciousness is observing your thoughts and actions so that you can live from true choice in the present moment rather than being run by programming from the past.

Pain comes like the weather, but joy is a choice.

Happiness is not a feeling, it is a choice. To be happy, one must choose to be happy, not respond to a circumstance that now controls your happiness.

If, in fact, it is what's inside us that makes all the difference, then the difference is made when we choose what goes inside.

At 11 years old I made a very definitive decision. And my decision was that I wanted to be happy.

Take responsibility for making conscious choices.

Happiness is a choice.

Highly proactive people don't blame circumstances, conditions, or conditioning for their behavior. Their behavior is a product of their own conscious choice.

Try to realize, and truly realize, that what stands between you and a different life are matters of responsible choice.

No one can grant you happiness. Happiness is a choice we all have the power to make.

If you're not happy, you can become happy. Happiness is a choice.

The only reason you are happy is because you choose to be happy. Happiness is a choice, and so is suffering.

Happiness is your choice. You can choose today.

We design our lives through the power of our choices. We feel most helpless when we've made choices by default, when we haven't designed our lives on our own.

And feel that I am happier than I know.

What we focus on, we empower and enlarge. Good multiplies when focused upon. Negativity multiplies when focused upon. The choice is ours: Which do we want more of?

We all choose things, and we also all choose against things. I want to be the kind of person who chooses for more than chooses against.

You have to take an active role in making yourself happy. That's why I say happiness is a choice. Because you have to choose it.

Whether your life is happy or not is your own choice.

The key to success is not what you do, it is how you feel about what you are doing.