Byron Katie Life Quotations

Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you. Everything happens at exactly the right moment, neither too soon nor too late. You don't have to like it... it's just easier if you do.

Without our stories, we are not only able to act clearly and fearlessly, we are also a friend, a listener. We are people living happy lives. We are appreciation and gratitude that have become as natural as breath itself. Happiness is the natural state for someone who knows that there's nothing to know and that we already have everything we need, right here now.

Don't be careful. You could hurt yourself.

If your happiness depends on your children being happy, that makes them your hostages. So stay out of their business, stop using them for your happiness, and be your own happiness. And that way you are the teacher for your children: someone who knows how to live a happy life.

Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you.

Everyone in your life is a figment of your imagination--ev en you.

You can't have an up without a down. You can't have a left without a right. This is duality. If you have a problem, you must already have the solution. The question is, do you really want the solution, or do you want to perpetuate the problem?

There's no way that a clear mind can live an unhappy life.

The mind usually says, “I know, I know, I know.” But the “don’t-know mind” is where wisdom lives.

All I have is all I need and all I need is all I have in this moment.

Asking the questions - that's what changes lives. Every cell in your body is awake with inquiry. And you cannot believe the old thoughts again.

Life is the constant opportunity to wake up.

Nothing ever goes wrong in life.

I am the perpretor of my suffering - but only all of it.

But when you think you're supposed to do something with it and imagine that you're the doer, that's pure delusion. Just follow your passion. Do what you love. Inquire, and have a happy life while you're doing it.