Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.
To every disadvantage there is a corresponding advantage.
I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.
Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.
The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies; but the thankful heart... will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
I am happy and content because I think I am.
When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.
All happiness is in the mind.
A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.
A man's as miserable as he thinks he is.
The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts.
Unhappiness indicates wrong thinking, just as ill health indicates a bad regimen.
He is happy that knoweth not himself to be otherwise.
The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions, and not our circumstances.
Happiness will never be any greater than the idea we have of it.
Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.
