J. D. Salinger Quotes

Look for the beauty in things.

I am learning to live, and to see beauty in everything.

I feel very happy to see the sun come up every day. I feel happy to be around. ... I like to take this day- any day-and go to town with it.

In a world that contains tragedies, we must realize that they’re vastly outnumbered by blessings

Everywhere in the world, you find good things.

I honestly believe there are good things happening in this world, and I'll spend most of my time trying to find them and bring them to light.

It doesn't take much to make me happy.

Try to see the joyful side of life. One must see the pain of life with clear eyes, and help all he can; but there is also lots of joy, and on should see that, too.

However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are richest. The fault-finder will find faults even in paradise. Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poor-house.

You're the type who thinks of the glass as being half full, instead of half empty. "No," she said, "I'm just grateful for the glass.

We live in a world where joy and empathy and pleasure are all around us, there for the noticing.

Sometimes you do have to laugh to keep from crying. And sometimes the world feels all right and good and kind of like it's becoming nice again around you. And you realize it, and realize how happy you are in it, and you just gotta laugh.

When you learn to say thank you, you see the world anew.

When I look around I think this, this is good enough; And I laugh at whatever life brings because when I look down, I just miss all the good stuff and when I look up, I just trip over things.

I like my time on earth. And no matter what kind of cards I've been dealt, I'm happy to be there.

Don't you think that the best things are already in view?

The more we allow ourselves to enjoy, the more reasons we find to be joyful.

Thank goodness air and salvation are still free...and so is laughter.

Unless you're completely exploded, there's always something to be grateful for.

Let us try to see things from their better side: You complain about seeing thorny rose bushes; Me, I rejoice and give thanks to the gods That thorns have roses.

I desire to go through life knowing as little of evil in it as possible. To this end, I sometimes avoid looking too closely into the nature of things, studying them only so far as they seem to be good, and abandoning interest in them as soon as their darker feature begin to appear. The good only deserves a hearty interest.

Oh, yes; the game was to just find something about everything to be glad about—no matter what 'twas

I said to my wife just the other day, I was actually taking some time to consider all the blessings in my life and that things are really good. I said, you would have to be a real churl to complain about the life I'm living right now. Everything's going great. I'm having a good time.

My mom always has this amazing ability to always see the best in a situation.

As long as I'm enjoying what I'm doing, then that's fine. That's what I want. I want to enjoy life. We're only here for a small ride, so it may as well be a good one. If I can go to work enjoying what I do, then my life becomes a very nice one.