William James Quotes

It's sort of my job to feel good.

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

The highest thought is always a thought which contains joy.

Happiness flourishes where there is happiness...

The thoughts you think when you are happiest are the closest to the truth.

The nicest thing about feeling happy is that you think you'll never be unhappy again.

To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.

The world is a song, but we do not know whether it is a good song because we have nothing to compare it with.

I never could be good when I was not happy.

Life is good when we think it's good. Life is bad when we don't think.

You know, the standard state for people is 'mildly pleasant.' Negative emotions are quite rare, and extremely positive emotions are rare. But people are mildly pleased most of the time, they're mildly tired a lot of the time, and they wish they were somewhere else a substantial part of the time - but mostly they're mildly pleased.

We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.

A man's as miserable as he thinks he is.

If you're happy, if you're feeling good, then nothing else matters.

Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison.

Happiness is an abstraction, it is a product of the imagination, it is a way of being moved, which depends entirely on our way of seeing and feeling.

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

The world of the happy is quite different from that of the unhappy.

Nothing is miserable but what is thought so, and contrariwise, every estate is happy if he that bears it be content.

Happy people learn that happiness, like sweat, is a by-product of activity.

Stop moping, sule," galladon said with a grunt."It doesn't suit you-it takes a fine sense of pessimism to brood with any sort of respectability.

A sense of contentment is a key factor for attaining happiness

Man is more himself, man is more manlike, when Joy is the fundamental thing in him, and Grief the superficial. Melancholy should be an innocent interlude, a tender and fugitive state of mind; Praise should be the permanent pulsation of the soul. Pessimism is at best an emotional half-holiday; Joy is the uproarious labor by which all things live? Christianity satisfies suddenly and perfectly man's ancestral instinct for being the right way up; satisfies it supremely in this, that by its creed Joy becomes something gigantic, and Sadness something special and small.

Sorrow, anger and resentment look back, worry looks around, while faith, hope, and optimism look to the future.

Happiness is just how you feel when you don't feel miserable.