Cesare Pavese Quotes

Your day will go the way the corners of your mouth turn.

To be happy when you are travelling, you need to be happy inside before you leave. A positive frame of mind will definitely enhance your travelling experience. If I'm not in a positive frame of mind then the whole thing definitely becomes more of a challenge for me.

I think so much depends on how you are feeling mentally and emotionally. I try to keep my head on tight, and try to feel good, and just go out there and not be afraid.

People tend to look great if they feel great.

If I were immersed in constant melancholy, I would not be who I am.

Moods are such an essential part of the substance of life, of one's notion of oneself, that even psychotic extremes in mood and behavior somehow can be seen as temporary, even understandable, reactions to what life has dealt.

Act as if you were already happy and that will tend to make you happy.

I can't be happy every day but I can be cheerful.

Sadness can find you anywhere, anytime, so you better have fun when you can.

I believe the single most significant decision I can make on a day-to-day basis is my choice of attitude. It is more important than my past, my education, my bankroll, my successes or failures, fame or pain, what other people think of me or say about me, my circumstances, or my position.

I am still determined to be cheerful and to be happy in whatever situation I may be, for I have also learnt from experianence that the greater part of our happiness or misary depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances; we carry the seeds of the one, or the other about with us, in our minds, wherever we go.

The real enemy of happiness is the mind's fixations and delusions... If you have the right mind, you can overcome anything - you can be happy, no matter what.

Nobody can be all smiley all the time, but having a good positive attitude isn't something to shrug off.

No one can create negativity or stress within you. Only you can do that by virtue of how you process your world.

I will not be afraid because I understand ... And understanding is happiness.

There is really no reason to suffer. The only reason you suffer is because you choose to suffer. If you look at your life you will find many excuses to suffer, but a good reason to suffer you will not find. The same is true for happiness. The only reason you are happy is because you choose to be happy. Happiness is a choice, and so is suffering.

Some days are a blessing when you wake up and you say, 'Wow, I feel good today.' Some days are like: 'Wow, I feel bad. I got no chance today.' You tape it up and you go.

Positivity is an inside job that makes the outside look a lot better.

Guard your good mood.

You have to take an active role in making yourself happy. That's why I say happiness is a choice. Because you have to choose it.

If we think happy thoughts, we will be happy. If we think miserable thoughts, we will be miserable.

I'm a much happier guy than a lot of people think I am.

It's easy to be miserable. Being happy is tougher - and cooler.

Happiness is a choice, not a result. Nothing will make you happy until you choose to be happy.

The sovereign voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our spontaneous cheerfulness be lost, is to sit up cheerfully, to look round cheerfully, and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there. If such conduct does not make you soon feel cheerful, nothing else on that occasion can.