Cloris Leachman Quotes

To be happy when you are travelling, you need to be happy inside before you leave. A positive frame of mind will definitely enhance your travelling experience. If I'm not in a positive frame of mind then the whole thing definitely becomes more of a challenge for me.

I believe the only thing that we really have control over is our attitude. If we focus on the positive things in our lives and learn how to cope with all the surprises, we will be happier people.

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 can choose to be happy, or choose to be miserable every day - waiting until I die.

Perspective is everything when you are experiencing the challenges of life.

I ceased using words like optimism and pessimism a long time ago.

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

A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.

I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

The reality is that what you find out is that your head is the medicine. If your head is not in the right place and you don't think positively, all the medicine technology in the world is not going to work.

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

I am a positive person. I am not cynical. If you are born in this world, no matter who you are, negative things will happen. If you aren't positive as a person, you'll be very unhappy. It's extremely important to be positive, to laugh, to be happy, to accept life as it comes.

It's easy to get negative because you get beat down. You go through a few disappointments and it's easy to stay in that negative frame of mind. Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is a whole cliche, but your attitude is going to determine how you're going to live your life.

I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.

The only reason to have a positive mental attitude is that it makes life better. It doesn't cure cancer.

I try to be as positive a person as possible.

I get very uncomfortable with negativity.

I always try to find a less frustrating way to look at things.

I'm a bubbling brew of emotions, but mostly, I'm an optimistic person.

It's like if you have a bad day and you don't change your mindset, even if you go to buy bread at the supermarket, like, everything is so bad. It happens. I'm very negative. You have to change it.

Always maintain a joyful mind. Appreciate the struggles as opportunities to wake up.

Nobody can be all smiley all the time, but having a good positive attitude isn't something to shrug off.

Every moment you spend thinking about the bad stuff pushes that much more of the good stuff away.

Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.