Seneca the Younger Quotes

Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.

If you're running around with a negative attitude all the time, you're going to feel down; you're going to have negative results.

It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.

Nothing is miserable unless you think it is so.

I think the world is like a great mirror, and reflects our lives just as we ourselves look upon it. Those who turn sad faces toward the world find only sadness reflected. But a smile is reflected in the same way, and cheers and brightens our hearts. You think there is no pleasure to be had in life. That is because you are heartsick and-and tired, as you say. With one sad story ended you are afraid to begin another-a sequel-feeling it would be equally sad. But why should it be? Isn't the joy or sorrow equally divided in life?

No matter what happens to us in life, we tend to think of it as 'good' or 'bad.' And most of us tend to use the 'bad' label three to 10 times as often as the 'good' label. And when we say something is bad, the odds grow overwhelming that we will experience it as such.

I say there're no depressed words just depressed minds.

When unhappy, one doubts everything; when happy, one doubts nothing.

Life is good when we think it's good. Life is bad when we don't think.

One's happiness depends less on what he knows than on what he feels.

Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the mind that lives.

I don't think it's a healthy thing in your personal life to go around with that never-sure attitude.

I've always been positive.

I try to be as positive a person as possible.

I really prefer to be positive.

In this world, you can choose to be positive, or you can choose to be negative. You can choose to see things through a set of eyes that sees good, or you can choose to see things in life that aren't so good.

We're all born pessimists. It takes effort to be optimistic.

The only way to be happy is to realise how much depends on how you look at things

There are, it has been said, two types of people in the world. There are those who, when presented with a glass that is exactly half full, say: this glass is half full. And then there are those who say: this glass is half empty. The world belongs, however, to those who can look at the glass and say: What's up with this glass? Excuse me? Excuse me? This is my glass? I don't think so. My glass was full! And it was a bigger glass! Who's been pinching my beer?

I think everyone has the same question on their mind: Is the glass half-full or half-empty?

The problem with you is that you always see a glass of milk half empty instead of half filled.

The quality of your life is determined by how you feel at any given moment.How you feel is determined by how you interpret what is happening around you,not by the the events themselves.

It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.

You are as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fears; as young as your hope, as old as your despair.

Certainly I have no attraction to misery. I don't intentionally go for dark.