Inspirational Quotes by Ken Keyes Jr. (American Self-Help Author)

Inspirational Quotes by Ken Keyes Jr. (American Self-Help Author)

When you accept yourself completely you do not have to maintain a phony front, drive yourself to “achieve” or feel insecure if people tune-in to you and what you are doing.
—Ken Keyes Jr.
Topics: Honesty

You make yourself and others suffer just as much when you take offense as when you give offense.
—Ken Keyes Jr.

To be upset over what you don’t have is to waste what you do have.
—Ken Keyes Jr.
Topics: Contentment, Appreciation, Gratitude, Blessings, Attitude, Property, Possessions

Everyone and everything around you is your teacher.
—Ken Keyes Jr.
Topics: Learning

Happiness is experienced when your life gives you what you are willing to accept.
—Ken Keyes Jr.
Topics: Acceptance, Happiness

Love is not a matter of what happens in life. It’s a matter of what’s happening in your heart.
—Ken Keyes Jr.

I always remember that I have everything I need to enjoy my here and now, unless I am letting my consciousness be dominated by demands and expectations based on the dead past or the imagined future.
—Ken Keyes Jr.
Topics: Enjoyment, The Present

People who postpone happiness are like children who try chasing rainbows in an effort to find the pot of gold at the rainbow’s end… Your life will never be fulfilled until you are happy here and now.
—Ken Keyes Jr.
Topics: Value of Time, Happiness, Time Management

Everything is a gift of the universe—even joy, anger, jealously, frustration, or separateness. Everything is perfect either for our growth or our enjoyment.
—Ken Keyes Jr.

No one that ever lived has ever had enough power, prestige, or knowledge to overcome the basic condition of all life – you win some and you lose some.
—Ken Keyes Jr.

A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world. Everyone you meet is your mirror.
—Ken Keyes Jr.

You are not responsible for the programming you picked up in childhood. However, as an adult, you are one hundred percent responsible for fixing it.
—Ken Keyes Jr.
Topics: Responsibility

We always have enough to be happy if we are enjoying what we do have—and not worrying about what we don’t have.
—Ken Keyes Jr.
Topics: Worry, Gratitude, Joy, Blessings, Happiness, Appreciation

To see your drama clearly is to be liberated from it.
—Ken Keyes Jr.
Topics: Chance, Circumstance

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