Your joy comes from how you think, the choices that we make in life.

Life is anything but predictable.

Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will ever have.

Accept the terrible responsibility of life with eyes wide open.

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

I’ve always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative.

Some people never go crazy, What truly horrible lives they must live.

Thou know’st the first time that we smell the air we wawl and cry. When we are born we cry, that we are come to this great state of fools.

If I read a book that impresses me, I have to take myself firmly by the hand, before I mix with other people; otherwise they would think my mind rather queer.

A lot of people have it a lot worse than you do.

Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.

Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.

I’m not confused. I’m just well mixed.

The sun doesn’t always shine in West Virginia, but the people do.

Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist.

People don’t realize that we, we meaning people in show business, have the same problems as everyone else. Money doesn’t change that. Fame doesn’t change that. Sometimes that brings on more problems. You know, it’s just a different kind of problems.

Art’s everything we hope life would be, a lot of times.

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.

The frontier between hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things.

I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.

I don’t think I’m an unlucky person.

I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we’re really talking about peace.

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

I didn’t die young. So I am very lucky. There are other artists and people that didn’t survive certain things… people can imagine that I did the most dangerous, and I did the worst… for many reasons, I shouldn’t be here.

Our intention creates our reality.

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.

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

I think the tiniest little thing can change the course of your day, which can change the course of your year, which can change who you are.

Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.

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.

If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

To be awake is to be alive.

The devil is a peace stealer, and he works hard to set us up to get upset. But we can learn how to change our approach so we don’t live upset all of the time. And Jesus gives us the best example to follow.

I no longer feel attracted to the well-made novel. I want to write the story that will zero in and give you intense, but not connected, moments of experience. I guess that’s the way I see life. People remake themselves bit by bit and do things they don’t understand.

You just want something else that someone else has, but that doesn’t mean what you have isn’t beautiful, because people always want what you have, and you always want what they have – no one is ever 100 per cent like, ‚Yes, I’m the bomb dot com – from head to toe!‘

Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.

Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.

You must capture and keep the heart of the original and supremely able man before his brain can do its best.

I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We’ve created life in our own image.

To understand the nature of the people one must be a prince, and to understand the nature of the prince, one must be of the people.

Begin noticing and being careful about keeping your imagination free of thoughts that you do not wish to materialize. Instead, initiate a practice of filling your creative thoughts to overflow with ideas and wishes that you fully intend to manifest. Honor your imaginings regardless of others seeing them as crazy or impossible.

At the beginning when the child is coming, people worry the child may be deformed. When a healthy boy or child comes, people are very happy for a short moment.

Some people would claim that things like love, joy and beauty belong to a different category from science and can’t be described in scientific terms, but I think they can now be explained by the theory of evolution.

There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.

We have lost contact with reality, the simplicity of life.

Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something.

Giving up cannot be an option.

When you are young, you cannot imagine being disabled. You imagine you would conquer it somehow. As I’ve got older, I can imagine it; I can see how life narrows in. I feel compassion for my mother now.

There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

Little things console us because little things afflict us.

No one can outrun death. It will catch up to all of us eventually.

I know I will never be happy, but I know I can be gay!

For me, however, that beloved, glowing little word happiness has become associated with everything I have felt since childhood upon hearing the sound of the word itself.

To be admitted to Nature’s hearth costs nothing. None is excluded, but excludes himself. You have only to push aside the curtain.

I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth.

When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways – either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength. Thanks to the teachings of Buddha, I have been able to take this second way.

If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person. If certain things are described to you as being real they’re real for you whether they’re real or not.