Bette Davis Quotes

Happiness is a choice. Choose to be happy.

If you're not happy, you can become happy. Happiness is a choice.

It is within your hands to be frustrated in life or not. Just your expectations should become smaller, smaller, smaller, and in the same proportion the frustration will become smaller. A day will come when there will be no expectation; then you will never come across any frustration.

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

Positive emotional energy is the key to health, happiness and wellbeing. The more positive you are, the better your life will be in every area.

Positive thinking is more than just a tagline. It changes the way we behave.

Linus: What would you say you want most out of life, Charlie Brown? To be happy? CB: Oh, no. I don't expect that. I really don't. I just don't want to be unhappy!

A positive thinker does not refuse to recognize the negative; he refuses to dwell on it.

Perspective is the cure for depression.

Accent your positive and delete your negative.

Every moment spent in unhappiness is a moment of happiness lost.

Joy is what makes life worth living, but for many joy seems hard to find. They complain that their lives are sorrowful and depressing. What then brings the joy we so much desire? Are some people just lucky, while others have run out of luck? Strange as it may sound, we can choose joy. Two people can be part of the same event, but one may choose to live it quite differently than the other. One may choose to trust that what happened, painful as it may be, holds a promise. The other may choose despair and be destroyed by it. What makes us human is precisely this freedom of choice.

Optimists are happier in life for a reason.

Waiting to be happy limits our brain's potential for success, whereas cultivating positive brains makes us more motivated, efficient, resilient, creative, and productive, which drives performance upward.

Positive thinking is hard. Worth it, though.

I believe that we're as happy in life as we make up our minds to be.

Miserable people focus on what they hate about their life. Happy people focus on what they love about their life.

I get more optimistic as I get older.

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

I think the happiness we find, we make.

You can't always look at life as a miserable thing.

I feel like when you are really appreciative, it makes it easier to have a better outlook and perspective of life in general.

I've by and large been a positive person ever since I can remember.

Hope is not just... out in the sky, or accepting the facts or reality. Hope is having optimistic, positive expectations.

As a driver, it was easy to find the negative in things. But when I got out of the car, everything about the sport, my whole perception of just about everything in the sport, did a 180.