William Lyon Phelps Quotes

I'm concerned about people being happy.

While we are focusing on fear, worry, or hate, it is not possible for us to be experiencing happiness, enthusiasm or love.

There's a fearful term that's in fashion at the moment - closure. People apparently believe it is desirable and attainable.

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

People are always vulnerable when they're happy.

People die of fright and live of confidence.

Most people think that you need to be healthy in order to happy.

I am convinced that the majority of people to-day have good, generous feelings which they can never know, never experience, because of some fear, some repression. I do not believe that people would be villains, thieves, murderers and sexual criminals if they were freed from legal restraint.

This was what happiness felt like - this wondrous, miraculous alternative to dread.

It's always good to hear that people you like are happy.

Is it not clear, however, that bliss and envy are the numerator and denominator of the fraction called happiness?

The world would be better and brighter if people were taught the duty of being happy as well as the happiness of doing their duty.

Nowadays people consider it a disgrace to admit that they are not stressed.

Where there is a mind, there are feelings such as pain, pleasure, and joy. No sentient being wants pain: all wants happiness instead.

I found people looked better when they laughed

Our appointment with life is in the present moment. If we do not have peace and joy right now, when will we have peace and joy?

There are many more attempts to define happiness than unhappiness. It is because people know all too well what unhappiness is.

Humans are cowards in the face of happiness. It takes courage to hold on to happiness.

Don't mistake pleasure for happiness. They are a different breed of dogs.

Start thinking happy thoughts and start being happy.

It's lovely to see people so happy.

I think people who truly can live a life in music are telling the world, ‘You can have my love, you can have my smiles. Forget the bad parts, you don’t need them. Just take the music, the goodness, because it’s the very best, and it’s the part I give most willingly

There are moments when people are incapable of understanding happiness.

I've realized that being happy is a choice.

I have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy.