How to Be Happy Quotes

“Draw every bad word you’ve ever called yourself on your body. Stand in the shower and pay attention to the way the words turn back into ink and disappear down the drain.”
― Iain S. Thomas, How to be Happy: Not a Self-Help Book. Seriously

“The problem with the chemicals in my head is they lead to feelings in the rest of me.”
― Iain S. Thomas, How to be Happy: Not a Self-Help Book. Seriously

“There is no prose as inspiring as a single human being with the courage to live well.”
― Iain S. Thomas, How to be Happy: Not a Self-Help Book. Seriously

“Sometimes I have a weird dream that we’re all relatively brief sparks of consciousness that live on a rock circling a ball of fire.”
― Iain S. Thomas, How to be Happy: Not a Self-Help Book. Seriously

“There was a research article I read with the headline, “Love Is A Single Act Committed By Two Brains,” because of the way oxytocin levels rose in a mother and a son when they hugged. I wish more poets became scientists”
― Iain S. Thomas, How to be Happy: Not a Self-Help Book. Seriously

“Now if only I could do something about my neurosis that forces me to narrate my life out loud for everyone to hear,” I said, to no one in particular.”
― Iain S. Thomas, How to be Happy: Not a Self-Help Book. Seriously

“Everyone just kind of leans their expectations of who you are on you and it makes you petrified of who you really might be.”
― Iain S. Thomas, How to Be Happy: Not a Self-Help Book. Seriously.

“There is no pressure to become who “you” are at a specific point in your life, you are who “you” are, you do not become “you” one day in the future, you are always you, with everything you do. Do not sacrifice the person you are today for the person you could be tomorrow. There’s only ever now.”
― Iain S. Thomas, How to be Happy: Not a Self-Help Book. Seriously.