Ellen DeGeneres Quotes

Counting blessings is better than recounting problems

What I have come to believe is that joy is the twin sister of gratitude. I am most joyful when I am most grateful.

It’s impossible to give thanks and simultaneously feel fear

I take nothing for granted. I now have only good days, or great days.

You'll never meet a happy ungrateful person, or an unhappy grateful person because gratitude and happiness go together. Sometimes happiness precedes gratitude but often gratitude precedes happiness. The latter is achieved by realising things could be worse but aren't and so feeling relieved, grateful and happy.

Happiness comes when we stop complaining about the troubles we have and offer thanks for all the troubles we don't have.

You have all the tools right now to make this day, this moment, happy. The best of these tools is love.

Gratitude always comes into play; research shows that people are happier if they are grateful for the positive things in their lives, rather than worrying about what might be missing.

When you are happy, be thankful and your happiness is greatly multiplied. When you are feeling down, be thankful and youll soon be feeling much better.

I try to be upbeat. I read this book which tells you to write down everything that you're grateful for each day. Now I'm constantly noticing all the little things that make me joyful.

My worst days are still pretty good days. That's something I might lose in the moment sometimes, but I have a pretty good grasp of it.

Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.

At the age of 18, I made up my mind to never have another bad day in my life. I dove into a endless sea of gratitude from which I've never emerged.

I guess I don't think there's any reason to feel guilty about having joy in your life, regardless of how bad things are in the world.

'Thank you power' is writing down the moments that are good in your life so that you can go back and reflect on them - so you've got this sort of repository of good stuff in your past.

Be grateful for luck. Pay the thunder no mind - listen to the birds. And don't hate nobody.

I love life too much to be bitter.

Positivity over everything.

I don't think about the negative in my life. I just think about the positives.

Why be negative when you can enjoy life and be positive? That's something I learned over the years.

What annoys me most is it is so easy to focus on negatives all the time. All you hear is a lot of people - whether it is industry leaders or politicians - complaining about everything. I don't deny things are not always perfect, but the stage it gets is huge compared with the simple things that make people happy, like winning a football match.

I choose to focus on the positive.

Why choose to be negative when you don't have to?

Choosing to be grateful earns you happiness

And so long as I can laugh, never will I be poor. This then, is one of nature's greatest gifts and I will waste it no more.