Joseph B. Wirthlin Quotes

The more we focus on the things we don’t have, the more unhappy and more resentful we become.

We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.

There's only one reason why you're not experiencing bliss at this present moment, and it's because you're thinking or focusing on what you don't have....But, right now you have everything you need to be in bliss.

What are you going to focus on, that's what affects everybody's life. If you focus on what you can't control, you're a little crazy inside, angry and depressed. If you focus most of the time on what you don't have instead of what you do have, you're going to be extremely unhappy.

If you look at what you have in life, you'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, you'll never have enough.

It is easy to forget how much you have, when your eyes are always fixed on what you have not.

All happy people are grateful. Ungrateful people cannot be happy. We tend to think that being unhappy leads people to complain, but it’s truer to say that complaining leads to people becoming unhappy.

We would be happier with what we have if we weren't so unhappy about what we don't' have

The jealous man is so preoccupied with what he hasn't got that he fails to appreciate the value of what he has got. He loses the ability to feel glad because the sun is shining. He doesn't see the wonder and the newness of the beginning of spring.

A grateful person is rich in contentment. An ungrateful person suffers in the poverty of endless discontentment.

I think that when you don't look at the good things around you, that you lose sight of all those good things. And you're not going to enjoy your life.

Not enough people in this world are happy.

Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.

Focus on the positives and be grateful.

I feel like when you are really appreciative, it makes it easier to have a better outlook and perspective of life in general.

Happiness? No, it's not there for me.

If you can find one thing in your life that can keep you in the moment, you're totally lucky.

There are so many great things in life; why dwell on negativity?

Life is too short to be negative.

I don't focus on negativity, I focus on the good things.

Happiness is not something you achieve. It's not something you do or someplace you get to. Happiness is something you inhabit.

I don't think about the negative in my life. I just think about the positives.

I choose to focus on the positive.

As long as we think our lives are not good enough (materially), we will not have happiness. As soon as we realize our lives are good enough, happiness immediately appears. That is the practice of contentment.

Gratitude turns what we have into enough.