Robert Holden Quotes

Sometimes in order to be happy in the present moment you have to be willing to give up all hope for a better past.

Children smile 400 times a day on average ... adults 15 times.
Children laugh 150 times a day ... adults 6 times per day.
Children play between 4-6 hours a day ... adults only 20 minutes a day.
What's happened?

When you're truly happy, you are being yourself.

Happiness doesn't come and go, what comes and goes is your attunement to happiness.

The key to happiness is not to make yourself into a different person; it is to let yourself be even more of who you really are.

My chief 'success philosophy' is, 'Give people every opportunity to say "Yes" to you'.

Making a wholehearted commitment to being happy is a powerful medicine.

Love offers us the most perfect soil for growth. Leo Buscaglia

One new perception, one fresh thought, one act of surrender, one change of heart, one leap of faith, can change your life forever.

There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so, wrote Shakespeare. For example:

Contrary to popular belief, time does not heal, time does not fly, time does not do anything. Time has no consciousness. It does nothing for you. The key to happiness now is what you choose to do with your time right now. Are you, right now, making the most valuable use of your time? This moment is, after all, the time of your life. Your choices are what make each moment.

Your happiness is a gift because it literally brings out the best in you.

At the heart of excessive individualism is a broken heart

A Course In Miracles is a constant affirmation that you are created by an unconditional thought of love that appears to have lost itself in a world of fear. Freedom, joy and peace of mind are yours again, when you remember and re-connect to your unconditional self.

The greatest influence you can have in any situation is to be the presence of love.

Happiness is all about milking the "sacred now".

Nothing real stands between you and your happiness, only illusion and confusion.

Happiness does not have to be deserved, earned, worked for or paid for; it simply has to be accepted.

All the happiness, health, and abundance you experience in life comes directly from your ability to love and be loved. This ability is innate, not acquired.

Your ego is an avid interpreter. It is so quick to interpret events as 'bad' or 'good,' 'wrong' or 'right.' It never fails to see 'the little picture.

Biologists will teach us that the survival of the species depends on cooperation, not competition.

I like to think of the word love as a door. If you only look at the door, all you get is an idea about what love is; but if you are willing to move closer to the door, to open it, and to walk on through, you get to have an experience of what love is. To be intimate with love, you have to move beyond words, leave behind self-concepts, empty your mind of learned ideas, stop being so religious, and let yourself dissolve into love. Now we are really getting somewhere. Now, at last, we can stop trying to define love, and we can let

Revel in your freedom. Live wholeheartedly, laugh loud, love much, spread joy, be truthful, and give yourself to everything. You, who are already whole, can lose nothing. Your ego may fall from time to time, but you will not. Live big!

Let what you give come through you rather than from you. There is no lack this way. Be truly unconditional in what you give so that there can be no fear or loss ... If you experience conflict, lack, or struggle today, let go of expectations, demands, and aiming to get something. Give yourself unconditionally . The Unconditioned Self is never diminished, and you cannot lose.

you is all of Heaven. Every leaf that falls is given life in you. Each bird that ever sang will sing again in you. And every flower that ever bloomed has saved its perfume and its loveliness for you. Text-25.

The real gift of gratitude is that the more grateful you are, the more present you become.

NOW is the most abundant moment of your life.

The difference between happiness is no-where and happiness is now-here has something to do with the event, and everything to do with how you see the event. Your perception is key.

Some people 'go' through life; and other people 'grow' through life. Which one are you?

There is a prayer that lives in the center of your heart. If you pray it, it will change your life. How does it begin?

Happiness is your original nature, it is YOU, minus your neurosis

Love is the ultimate coach. Do what you love, let love guide you, and let love inspire you.

Leadership is a dare - and the dare is, 'Are you willing to show up?'

A Modern Prayer
Dear God, help me to slow down notrushpasteverythingthatisimportanttodayamen.
Robert Holden

One of the most important lessons to learn about relationships is that it is not another person's job to make you happy. Your happiness is not someone else's job. Until you realize this, you will always be dissatisfied with your relationships. Ultimately, your relationship with others mirrors your relationship to happiness.

No amount of self-improvement can make up for any lack of self-acceptance.

All parents want their children to be happy, but so few parents talk about it.

Nothing in the world can make you happy; everything in the world can encourage you to be happy

The final and only act of healing is to accept that there is nothing wrong with you.

No matter how hard you try
it is impossible to be grateful
and depressed.

Your happiness is your gift to the world.

The more you strive and search for happiness, the more you overlook the possibility that it is here already.

Unless you are happy with yourself, you will not be happy.

Are the choices you are making going to really make you happy NOW or happy eventually?

Your relationship with yourself sets the tone for every other relationship you have.

Practise wonder today - be present, begin again, know nothing, and allow everything to surprise you, inspire you, excite you, entertain you, teach you. Be fully open to life, today, and let yourself live wonder-fully.

Meaning is not found in things; meaning is what you make of things.

You were lost in the darkness of the world until you asked for light. And then God sent His Son to give it to you. Psychotherapy-3. III. 8:9-13.

Happiness is a way of travelling and not a final destination.

Whenever you heal any relationship,
your whole life improves -
and that counts for double with family.

You did not come here to be normal, you came here to be you.

I ask you to consider that the goal of your life is not just to find love; it is to be love. Love is the real work of your life.

Happiness is not in things; happiness is in you.

Perception can make whatever picture the mind desires to see. Remember this. In this lies either Heaven or hell, as you elect. Manual

First you believe, and then you see the Light. Next you go towards the Light. Soon you are IN the Light. Now you ARE the Light.

Happiness is always possible - the only thing that really holds you back is your mind. You have probably already noticed that the happiest times in your life are when you are not thinking. It's a wonderful thing to stand outside your ego, to surrender to the flow, and to participate fully in a hobby, in nature, in meditation, in prayer, in art, in dance, in sport, and in the moment.

You are the key to happiness.

Happiness is free, there are no conditions.

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides. David Viscott

Laughter is the best way To make somebody's heart beat

To be happy you have to know what you really want. After all, you can never have enough of what you didn't want in the first place. True happiness isn't a thing or a commodity, it's something you cultivate and share.

Some people CHASE happiness. And some people CHOOSE happiness ...

Laughter is a highly addictive positive contagion: if somebody starts, it's very difficult to stop.

Whoever said happiness needs a plan?

Life is like art - it is all about interpretation.