I have chosen to be happy because it is good for my health.

But we cannot simply sit and stare at our wounds forever.

It is your decisions, and not your conditions, that determine your destiny.

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.

We are free up to the point of choice, then the choice controls the chooser.

Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.

Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.

One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.

The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak. But experience more than sufficiently teaches that men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues.

Those who drink to drown their sorrow should be told sorrow knows how to swim.

Gratitude is the way to happiness.

If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.

The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it.

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.

Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.

Vaccination is a barbarous practice, and it is one of the most fatal of all the delusions current in our time.

Now if I carry out this oath, and break it not, may I gain forever reputation among all men for my life and for my art; but if I transgress it and forswear myself, may the opposite befall me.

Better to hunt in fields, for health unbought, than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught. The wise, for cure, on exercise depend; God never made his work for man to mend.

The cure is, is worse than the disease.

Your body is precious. It is our vehicle for awakening. Treat it with care.

If you have health, you probably will be happy, and if you have health and happiness, you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want.

The vaccine is a filthy substance and it is foolish to expect that one kind of filth can be removed by another.

To have and to hold from this day forward, for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, till death do us part.