Happiness and Joy

All I ask is a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.

Better than a thousand hollow words is one word that brings peace.

Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

There are only two ways to live your life. One as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.

A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years.

There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere.

When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.

There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment . . . It gives warmth and good feeling to all your personal relationships.

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain.

The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring.

There is real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.

It’s a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.

Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.

There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much.

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.

I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainty that just to be alive is a grand thing.

Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

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

If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live.

There is no happiness where there is no wisdom.

Happiness is not an accident. Nor is it something you wish for. Happiness is something you design.