Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

Social scientists have found that the fastest way to feel happiness is to practice gratitude.

Not enough people in this world are happy.

Life is grim, and we don't have to be grim all the time.

Ever since I was a kid, I've always thought it very important to be happy inside. There's a lot of bad things happening in the world, but it's important to try to stay happy and appreciate what you've got, and don't look externally for the happiness.

I look great because I'm happy.

Be happy or die.

I don't thrive on misery myself. I mean, I've obviously created during a time of misery, but I also create from a place of joy.

If you're lucky enough to find anything in life that gives you five seconds, let alone an hour, of relief from life, you should try to do it forever.

There are so many things in life that make you sad, you have to be happy.

I know that there are other sides to life. All the more reason why I now try to convey to the people out there how important it is to feel a sense of joy.

I just want to focus on the positive things in my life.

Remember that you have to be happy to make other people happy. Don't get weighed down by duty, guilt, and responsibility all the time.

The thought has cheered me, and I'd like to hang onto that. Must protect my little pockets of happiness.

Cynicism is tough. A cynic's point of view is really pitiful. I derive pleasure out of a lot of things in life. As long as I'm fairly healthy, it's hard to stay dismal for very long.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Allowing yourself to smile takes 99% of the effort.

It'll keep you alive for another 10 years if you get yourself a laugh once a day: either provoke it, or look around in the wildest laboratory in the world, the public.

Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.

It's obvious, but perhaps worth saying, that happiness has virtually nothing to do with the state of your intellect.

If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that's a full day. That's a heck of a day. You do that seven days a week, you're going to have something special.

It takes a lot of energy to be negative. You have to work at it. But smiling is painless. I'd rather spend my energy smiling.

Happiness is the first principle of life. Happiness basically means well-being. It is always good and always a choice... We need to make the choice to be happy in a particular situation, just as it is, and at a given moment.

We must remember to enjoy ourselves.

The great thing about life - I'd rather not know and just hope I'm happy and healthy and I feel as good about my life as I do now.

I'm trying to stay as calm as possible and focus one day at a time, but when reality sets in, I feel everything: anxiety, excitement, nerves, pressure and joy.