Dr. Maxwell Maltz
Dr. Maxwell Maltz Quotes about Happiness
Happiness isn't something that happens to you. It is what you yourself do and determine upon.
One's capacity for friendship, which can be developed, is basic to one's capacity for happiness.
Happiness is the art of relaxation.
We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness.
When a person has adequate self-esteem little slights offer no threat at all - they are simply "passed over" and ignored. Even deeper emotional wounds are likely to heal faster and cleaner, with no festering sores to poison life and spoil happiness.
We are built to conquer environment, solve problems, achieve goals, and we find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve.
Happiness is native to the human mind and its physical machine. We think better, perform better, feel better, and are healthier when we are happy.
Happiness is simply a state of mind in which our thinking is pleasant a good share of the time.
True success and true happiness not only go together but each enhances the other.
This Creative Mechanism within you is impersonal. It will work automatically and impersonally to achieve goals of success and happiness, or unhappiness and failure, depending upon the goals which you yourself set for it. Present it with success goals and it functions as a Success Mechanism. Present it with negative goals, and it operates just as impersonally, and just as faithfully as a Failure Mechanism.