Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn’t. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.

Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.

Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Even when a person has all of life’s comforts – good food, good shelter, a companion – he or she can still become unhappy when encountering a tragic situation.

The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.

I used to let other people’s struggles affect my happiness. If they weren’t happy, there was no way I was going to be happy. The opposite was also true: If I wasn’t happy, I didn’t want anyone around me to be happy.

I have often been downcast but never in despair; I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the same time. In my diary, I treat all the privations as amusing.

Optimism means better than reality; pessimism means worse than reality. I’m a realist.

As a bull market turns into a bear market, the new pros turn into optimists, hoping and praying the bear market will become a bull and save them. But as the market remains bearish, the optimists become pessimists, quit the profession, and return to their day jobs. This is when the real professional investors re-enter the market.

Why don’t you start believing that no matter what you have or haven’t done, that your best days are still out in front of you.

My moms always told me, ‚How long you gonna play the victim?‘ I can say I’m mad and I hate everything, but nothing really changes until I change myself.

While the crash only took place six months ago, I am convinced we have now passed the worst, and with continued unity of effort, we shall rapidly recover. There is one certainty of the future of a people of the resources, intelligence and character of the people of the United States – that is, prosperity.

Money doesn’t make you happy. I now have $50 million but I was just as happy when I had $48 million.

We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.

As we know, while our species remains alive, everybody has the sacred duty to be optimistic. Ethically, any other behaviour wouldn’t be admissible.

The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.

Even the most seemingly unpleasant situations – if you become aligned with it, something good will emerge from that.

Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.

When the negative thoughts come – and they will; they come to all of us – it’s not enough to just not dwell on it… You’ve got to replace it with a positive thought.

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

I believe that the greatest gift you can give your family and the world is a healthy you.

Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart.

If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.

A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance.

Know that any and all thoughts that you have regarding your own skills, interests, and inclinations are valid. To reinforce the validity of your thoughts, keep them private. Tell yourself that they’re between you and God.

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

I’m a genetic optimist.

I was brought up differently than the average American child because the average child is brought up expecting to be happy.

If I died tomorrow, I would be a happy girl.

I don’t believe in pessimism. If something doesn’t come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it’s going to rain, it will.

Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.

Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.

With compassion you can die for other people, like the mother who can die for her child. You have the courage to say it because you are not afraid of losing anything, because you know that understanding and love is the foundation of happiness. But if you have fear of losing your status, your position, you will not have the courage to do it.

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness.

There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.

A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.

Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.

Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you’re going to live your life.

I prefer to praise people and the world rather than criticize them and it.

Sometimes I think my husband is so amazing that I don’t know why he’s with me. I don’t know whether I’m good enough. But if I make him happy, then I’m everything I want to be.

I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.

All the awards in the world, you can get into all the nightclubs, they’ll send you the nicest clothes. Nothing better than walking into your dad’s restaurant and seeing a smile on his face and knowing that your mom and dad and your sister are real proud of you.

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.

They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

It seems like a lot of people seek their peace in things. And most of us are not even satisfied with the things we have… we always want more.

Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.

What’s the use of happiness? It can’t buy you money.

My belief is that we were put into this world of wonders and beauty with a special ability to appreciate them, in some cases to have the fun of taking a hand in developing them, and also in being able to help other people instead of overreaching them and, through it all, to enjoy life – that is, to be happy.

If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish.

Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.

No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.

Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?

Number of people have said to me, after hearing your thinking, their mind becomes much more happier.