Karen Carpenter Quotes

When you look at the books about well-being, you see one word - it's happiness. People do not distinguish.

I think when I look out and I see there's so much negativity in the world and a lot of people are unhappy and a lot people are anxious, it just feels like that's one view of the world. But you don't have to always focus on that view of the world.

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.

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.

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.

We must be doing something to be happy.

I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true.

The most important thing is to enjoy your life - to be happy - it's all that matters.

The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick.

Just try to be happy. Unhappiness starts with wanting to be happier.

The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.

If you spend your whole life being depressed about life, you're wasting it.

Be happy or die.

Being happy is a revolutionary act; I think it spreads, like ripples in a pond.

Happiness is your own treasure because it lies within you.

There's no sense in making life seem like it's a struggle, because that doesn't make anybody feel better.

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.

We may have forgotten how to feel. Nobody is teaching us how to live happily ever after, as we've heard in fairy tales.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.

To be happy is only to have freed one's soul from the unrest of unhappiness.

Allowing yourself to smile takes 99% of the effort.

I am quite miserable because I'm never satisfied with what I've got. You're always looking for that next high, and that is what I would define as happiness.

Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.

If I'm crazy, I'm blissfully so!