“At any given moment the choice to be happy is present — we just have to choose to be happy.”

“Happiness is not a feeling, it is a choice. To be happy, one must choose to be happy, not respond to a circumstance that now controls your happiness.”

Joyce Meyer (1943) American author and speaker

“Happiness is the best revenge, you know? Just be happy. It's a choice.”

Emily Giffin (1972) American writer

“Those two, in paradise, were given a choice: happiness without freedom, or freedom without happiness. There was no third alternative.”

Yevgeny Zamyatin book We

“No one can grant you happiness. Happiness is a choice we all have the power to make.”

Dean Koontz book Life Expectancy

“At any given moment in your life, you have the choice between love and fear. And that’s a choice you make. You make the choice of how you react to events.”

Jennifer Beals (1963) American actress and a former teen model

“I'm really happy, I just don't choose to show it.”

Karl Pilkington (1972) English television personality, social commentator, actor, author and former radio producer

“The future that we will never experience is constantly haunting us in the present moment. Thus, taking away our true happiness.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

“it is a most important social act; nay, at bottom, the one important social act. Given the men a People choose, the People itself, in its exact worth and worthlessness, is given. A heroic people chooses heroes, and is happy; a valet or flunkey people chooses sham-heroes, what are called quacks, thinking them heroes, and is not happy.”

Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher

“The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it. (21)”

Thich Nhat Hanh (1926) Religious leader and peace activist