Joko Beck Quotes

It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.

I just show up and try to find the joy in every situation.

When I don't plumb the depths or the opportunities of each day, I don't have joy.

You have to pay attention to the moment and make it the best it can be for you. I've been trying to do that. It's really made a major difference for me. I'm a happier person.

In the end, we know what makes us happy. We also know what makes us unhappy. That's the irony. We know and yet we still mess it up. That's part of the human condition, no, and why we need to work on it.

If in any case I did find error in that which I have collected from my natural understanding, I should count it good fortune, since I enjoy life, and endeavour to pass it not in weeping and sighing, but in peace, joy, and cheerfulness, and from time to time climb thereby a step higher.

Know your own happiness.

Happiness is the highest form of wisdom.

Self-knowledge is only from moment to moment, and therefore there is a creative happiness from moment to moment.

Self-knowledge makes me happy.

One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.

Happiness, contentment, the health and growth of the soul, depend, as men have proved over and over again, upon some simple issue, some single turning of the soul.

My earlier poems were sadder than my poems are today, perhaps because I wrote them in confusion or when I was unhappy. But I am not a melancholy person, quite the contrary, no one enjoys laughing more than I do.

Happiness comes from the full understanding of your own being.

Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.

I have come a long way and learnt a lot. I read this quote about a year ago: 'Happiness must not be pursued; it must ensue.' It's made me realise that just being married again or something like that won't make me happy; the happiness ensues from how we live our lives.

I'm having a great life, and I want to go on having one.

I want to live a full life - period.

Life is having its way with me now. And I'm really pleased.

Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.

I've always spent more time with a smile on my face than not, but the thing is, I don't write about it.

I do believe that if you haven't learnt about sadness, you cannot appreciate happiness.

I'm in this wonderful place of life, where everything I'm doing is something I do because I enjoy it.

The secret to life is finding joy in ordinary things. I'm interested in happiness.

I would rate the fact that I get to be alive a big beautiful 10. Satisfaction with myself - work in progress.