Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

My baseline function is I'm usually really happy and optimistic. I think I really genuinely like being alive, and I've got a spring in my step - that's what I've been like all my life.

Choosing to be grateful earns you happiness

What comfort there is in a cheerful spirit! how the heart leaps up to meet a sunshiny face, a merry tongue, an even temper, and a heart which either naturally, or, what is better, from conscientious principle, has learned to take all things on their bright side, believing that the Giver of life being all-perfect Love, the best offering we can make to Him is to enjoy to the full what He sends of good, and bear what He allows of evil!

To me, everything is wonderful. Life is wonderful.

Everything is a blessing to me.

I think that life is just too sweet to be bitter.

The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.

An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.

Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness, which this world affords.

I've always been a positive, optimistic person who loves life, and I've got a lot to be positive about.

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

I guess I'd say my vibe is to be happy at all times.

God is glorified, not by our groans, but our thanksgivings; and all good thought and good action claim a natural alliance with good cheer.

When you are a thankful person it releases joy.

There is no joy without gratitude.

To be realistic, you have to believe in miracles.

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

Gratitude is the seedbed of joy.

Develop an 'attitude of gratitude.

All happy people are grateful. Ungrateful people cannot be happy. We tend to think that being unhappy leads people to complain, but it’s truer to say that complaining leads to people becoming unhappy.

Anyone who does not believe in miracles is not a realist.

I'm not bitter. Why should I be bitter? I'm thrilled to death with life.

There can be no joy without gratitude.

As long as thanks is possible, then joy is always possible.

But the happiest people are the ones who understand that good things occur when one allows them to.