Jean Houston Quotes

Set your mind that no matter what is going on in your life, you will have a good attitude.

The fact is always obvious much too late, but the most singular difference between happiness and joy is that happiness is a solid and joy a liquid.

If your own mental attitude is correct, even if you remain in a hostile atmosphere, you feel happy.

All alternatives are open. Choose to be blissful. And then there are people who can be blissful even when they are imprisoned, and there are people who remain miserable even when they are living in marble palaces. It all depends on you.

You are not happy because you are well. You are well because you are happy. You are not depressed because trouble has come to you, but trouble has come to you because you are depressed. You can change your thoughts and feelings, and then the outer things will come to correspond, and indeed there is no other way of working.

I do believe that if you haven't learnt about sadness, you cannot appreciate happiness.

I'm always sort of anticipating life being difficult, but on a basic level, that's sort of on the surface, on a basic level, I'm optimistic in the sense that I think it's all going to be alright in the end.

Some moments I feel sad, some moments I'm happy. Overall, I'm proud.

What is stronger, fear or hope?

Sorrow may be a good thing for a woman's heart, but it is a poor cosmetic for her face.

The satisfaction of life May not be ours, But the beauty of hope Is all ours.

Of all our feelings the only one which really doesn't belong to us is hope. Hope belongs to life, it's life itself defending itself. Etcetera.

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

Peace was the third emotion. Love. Hate. Peace. Three emotions made the ply of human life.

I'm much happier and more fulfilled than I thought I would ever be, especially when I was going through a lot of grief when I was younger. I hope it lasts.

Happiness is not a life without pain, but rather a life in which the pain is traded for a worthy price.

It takes more distress and poison to kill someone who has peace of mind and loves life.

The healthiest response to life is joy.

All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.

The wonder to me is not that she made it through at all but that she made it through so relatively intact, so vibrant. So free of bitterness and so empty of resentment.

Misery is what happiness rests upon. Happiness is what misery lurks beneath.

Good temper is an estate for life.

Always look forward and try to push pass the negativity. I think everyone's beautiful and they deserve to be happy no matter what.

Sometimes it all gets a little too much, but you gotta realize that soon the fog will clear up.

I came out of that and said I don't want to go back to feeling depressed. So I asked myself, what can I be optimistic about, in terms of the course of the planet? And I discovered there was no end to the optimism I felt.