George Santayana Quotes

I love life way too much and find fun in almost anything. I'm a chameleon.

I just show up and try to find the joy in every situation.

What part soever you take upon you, play that as well as you can and make the best of it.

In life, as in whist, hope nothing from the way cards may be dealt to you. Play the cards, whatever they be, to the best of your skill.

To rejoice in life, to find the world beautiful ... was a mark of the Greek spirit.

I feel like my soul yearns to experience something new at all times. That may be an encounter with a new place or persons or a song that plays and urges me to dance in a different way. I come alive when there is a chance to learn or do something different.

If the soul be happily disposed, every thing becomes capable of affording entertainment, and distress will almost want a name.

Live in the world you inhabit. Look upon things as they are. Take them as you find them. Make the best of them. Turn them to your advantage.

The most popular persons are those who take the world as it is who find the least fault.

The world is what you make of it, friend. If it doesn’t fit, you make alterations.

Good nature is the cheapest commodity in the world.

It's just life, so keep dancing through.

I certainly never feel discouraged. I can't myself raise the winds that might blow us or this ship into a better world. But I can at least put up the sail so that when the winds comes, I can catch it.

Good night, everyone- and remember- in this world, if you wanna get ahead, you gotta learn to give a little!

Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitude and expectations. If we feel that our environment could stand some improvement, we can bring about that change for the better by improving our attitude. The world plays no favorites. It's impersonal. It doesn't care who succeeds and who fails. Nor does it care if we change. Our attitude toward life doesn't affect the world and the people in it nearly as much as it affects us.

Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe. No path is wholly rough.

When something goes wrong, smile, cause there's always a next play.

Never lose interest in life and the world. Never allow yourself to become annoyed.

I don't want to live in a world where I just kind of play on my naïveté - well if I don't know it, then it doesn't exist.

I don't just want to play in the playoffs. I want to win the World Series.

If your mind is expansive and unfettered, you will find yourself in a more accommodating world, a place that's endlessly interesting and alive. That quality isn't inherent in the place but in your state of mind.

I have been able to hope for the best, expect the worst, and take what comes along. If there has been one fundamental reason for my success, this is it.

Souls are dangerous things to carry straight through all the spilt saltpetre of this world.

The gospel of cheerfulness, I had almost said the gospel of amusement, is preached by people who lack experience to people who lack vitality. There is a vague impression that the world would be a good world if it were only happy, that it would be happy if it were amused, and that it would be amused if plenty of artificial recreation - that recreation for which we are now told every community stands responsible - were provided for its entertainment.