W. Clement Stone Quotes

I think of myself as a really happy person.

A contented mind is the best source for trouble.

I believe the only thing that we really have control over is our attitude. If we focus on the positive things in our lives and learn how to cope with all the surprises, we will be happier people.

I'm lucky because I have the ability to look at the brighter side of life.

When I wake up in a bad mood, I try not to stay in one. Learn to make the best of what you have.

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Well, the attractive thing about the subject of happiness is that it is notoriously difficult to write.

Happiness is not a matter of events; it depends upon the tides of the mind.

Happiness is state of mind.

I don't think I'm alone in this: I'm obsessed with trying to not only be happy but maintain happiness, but my definition of happiness is skewed more towards ecstasy rather than contentment.

The secret to happiness is to lower your expectations. ...that is what you compare your experience with. If your expectations and standards are very high and only allow yourself to be happy when things are exquisite, you'll never be happy and grateful. There will always be some flaw. But compare your experience with lower expectations, especially something not as good, and you'll find much in your experience of the world to love, cherish and enjoy, every single moment.

I think that's the trick: wanting what I have.

There's so much that you can get mad about. Out of self-preservation, I focus on being grateful.

What is happiness and unhappiness? It depends so little on the circumstances; it depends really only on what happens inside a person. I am grateful for every day and that makes me happy.

For who expects nothing, all that comes is grateful

At the end of the day, the key to happiness is taking ultimate responsibility for your reactions to all of your experiences - the good and the chaotic.

Contrast the experience with something worse and you cannot help feeling happy and grateful because... The change from trouble to comfort gives us more pleasure than uninterrupted comfort does.

That best of blessings, a contented mind.

You'll never meet a happy ungrateful person, or an unhappy grateful person because gratitude and happiness go together. Sometimes happiness precedes gratitude but often gratitude precedes happiness. The latter is achieved by realising things could be worse but aren't and so feeling relieved, grateful and happy.

I think the secret to a hoppy life is a selective memory. Remember what you are most grateful for and quickly forget what your not.

I become filled with anxiety and hurt as a natural reaction. Then I resort to my gratitude journal. I make it a point to think about and write down all of the things I have to be grateful for, and this helps me immensely.

When we choose not to focus on what is missing from our lives but are grateful for the abundance that's present ... we experience heaven on earth.

By talking to yourself about the things you have to be grateful for you can fill your mind with thoughts that soar and sing.

A grateful environment is a substitute for happiness. It can quicken us from without as a fixed hope and affection, or as the consciousness of a right life, can quicken us from within.

You can't keep the birds of sadness from flying over your head, but you can keep them from nesting in your hair.