Tara Brach Quotes

That man lives happy and in command of himself, who from day to day can say I have lived. Whether clouds obscure, or the sun illumines the following day, that which is past is beyond recall.

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.

My life is exactly the way it needs to be.

Only it takes time to be happy. A lot of time. Happiness, too, is a long patience.

Absorption in things other than self is the secret of a happy life.

The only way to happiness is never to give happiness a thought.

I might say: if the place I want to get to could only be reached by way of a ladder, I would give up trying to get there. For the place I really have to get to is a place I must already be at now. Anything that I might reach by climbing a ladder does not interest me.

Happiness comes from accepting the present situation, whether it is something you wish to savor as long as possible or change as quickly as you can. Neither is possible without acceptance as the starting point, because without acceptance you are living on the periphery of your life. There at the edges, you can't fully enjoy the good stuff or do anything about the rest.

You will never find happiness until you stop looking for it.

To live moment to moment is the life of meditation. Then life becomes spontaneous without any effort; then nobody can make you miserable, nobody can disappoint you, nobody can make you a failure because in the first place you were not trying to be a success; you were not asking the future to be in a certain way. So whatever happens, the next moment you can rejoice. It is always your victory.

Don't let your happiness depend on something you may lose.

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.

I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it.

Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.

I'm pleased with my life, with the journey.

The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don't have.

If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.

I define success as being comfortable with yourself and your life. And that is about as good as it gets, really.

Don't think you're going to be happy when you get something. You have to be happy on your way to happy.

I hate to sound blase about it, but literary status is not important to me. Being happy is important to me.

Those who make happiness the chief objective of life are bound to fail, for happiness is a by-product rather than an end in itself.

I've been evaluating how much I value happiness in my life. To be too driven takes away your happiness.

I think the most important thing in life is to be happy. If you're happy, it will show in everything that you do.

I want to live a fulfilling life.

Money will not make you happy. It's most important that you need to be happy. You need to do something you want to do.