Mark Twain Quotes

Being happy never goes out of style.

I hate to sound blase about it, but literary status is not important to me. Being happy is important to me.

It's so much easier to be happy. It's so much easier to choose to love the things that you have, instead of always yearning for what you're missing, or what it is that you're imagining you're missing. It is so much more peaceful.

Being joyful isn't what makes you grateful. Being grateful is what makes you joyful.

[I] never talk about gratitude and joy separately, for this reason. In 12 years, I've never interviewed a single person who would describe their lives as joyful, who would describe themselves as joyous, who was not actively practicing gratitude.

Grandpa says we've got everything to make us happy but happiness.

I'm comfortable with the life I have.

Look for joy in your life; it's not always easy to find.

I'm fine with the life I have.

The secret to life is finding joy in ordinary things. I'm interested in happiness.

Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.

If you are not happy here and now, you never will be.

You find happiness where you find it.

Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it.

The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

Joy is not the result of getting what you want; it is the way to get what you want. In the deepest sense, joy is what you want.

Happiness doesn't depend on how much you have to enjoy, but how much you enjoy what you have.

Happiness is an inside job.

I'm all about cultivating joy in your life.

All I can focus on is what I can control and that's being happy. My own happiness.

Instead of just surviving life and hoping to make it through one more day, I live my life with joy now, and I'm incredibly grateful.

Happiness is not something you achieve. It's not something you do or someplace you get to. Happiness is something you inhabit.

My goal is to try to be as happy as I can - going through every day just as it is.

The secret to happiness...be satisfied and be grateful.