Wilhelm von Humboldt Quotes

I think you can be depressed and flourish, I think you can have cancer and flourish, I think you can be divorced and flourish. When we believed that happiness was only smiling and good mood, that wasn't very good for people like me, people in the lower half of positive affectivity.

There's many things in this world that will depress you, and make you good for nothing, if you take them seriously, and that cheer you up if you don't.

There are times in my life when I haven't been happy. Sometimes it's not even physical, it's something else. The key is identifying why you're unhappy and doing whatever you can to fix it in a healthy way.

Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.

I was born with a happy heart, and I try to keep a good attitude. It's not true that I'm happy all the time because nobody is, and we all go through our things.

I don't have time to be depressed.

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

The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.

Words can never adequately convey the incredible impact of our attitudes toward life. The longer I live the more convinced I become that life is 10 percent what happens to us and 90 percent how we respond to it.

The quality of my life has changed dramatically - not the events - but the way I handle them and my priorities and my sense of drama.

Happiness is not a matter of events; it depends upon the tides of the mind.

When things don't go our way, we get to choose how we will respond. We get to choose our perspective. Will you focus on what you didn't get, or what you did get?

I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition.

What's happening to me is I'm still happy and functioning, being able to listen to music, see good movies, read good books. What else is there that I can't, you know, I mean, I'm OK.

I am a human being: sometimes I am happy, but sometimes I am not feeling that great or not in a mood.

I can always take a moment when things are going well, when pressure might build, to think: 'You've had a lot worse than this.'

One thing about me is that I don't like to be sad all the time.

Happiness is a state of mind. It's just according to the way you look at things.

The basic root of happiness lies in our minds; outer circumstances are nothing more than adverse or favourable.

Happiness is not so much a feeling as it is an attitude

Happiness is a choice we make. You can wake up and say, 'Oh, I can't believe it's so cold,' or you can say, 'Oh, wow, this is a great opportunity for me to try out my new sweater.' No one can be consistently positive, but why not make the choice that makes you feel better rather than the one that drags you down?

A man is as unhappy as he has convinced himself he is.

Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure.

You cannot control all of what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward all of what happens to you...You can choose to be happy and grateful rather than disappointed and bitter, by focusing on how it could have turned out worse but didn't, rather than how it could have turned out better but didn't.

It isn’t what you have or who you are or where you are or what you’re doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It’s what you think of it. Two people may in the same place doing the same thing, and yet one may be miserable and the other happy. Why? Because of a different mental attitude.