Are you so unobservant as not to have found out that sanity and happiness are an impossible combination?
I suspect that the happiest people you know are the ones who work at being kind, helpful and reliable - and happiness sneaks into their lives while they are busy doing those things. It is a by-product, never a primary goal.
The arrival of a good clown exercises a more beneficial influence upon the health of a town than of twenty asses laden with drugs.
When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.
Worry is a waste of energy. It cant change the past. It cant control the future. It only makes today miserable
Remember that no one can hurt you except yourself. If someone does a mean thing to you, that person is hurt. You are not really hurt unless you become embittered, or unless you become angry and perhaps do a mean thing in return.
Finally, be kind to yourself and have a good support system.
If I am happy in spite of my deprivations, if my happiness is so deep that it is a faith, so thoughtful that it becomes a philosophy of life. If, in short, I am an optimist, my testimony to the creed of optimism is worth hearing.
Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.
A lot of people who have depression understand that the last thing in the world you want to do when you're feeling that way is get up and exercise. It's virtually impossible to do that. It's like somebody beating you.
The recommended daily requirement for hugs is: four per day for survival, eight per day for maintenance, and twelve per day for growth.
Vulnerability is the core of shame and fear and our struggle for worthiness, but it appears that it's also the birthplace of joy, of creativity, of belonging, of love.
A psychoneurosis must be understood, ultimately, as the suffering of a soul which has not discovered its meaning.
Ninety per-cent of what we worry about never happens, yet we worry and worry. What a horrible way to go through life! What a horrible thing to do to your colon!
Putting yourself first is not selfish. Quite the opposite. You must put your happiness and health first before you can be of help to anyone else.
Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself.
Happiness is a state of non-contradictory joy . . . Happiness is possible only to a rational man, the man who desires nothing but rational goals, seeks nothing but rational values, and finds his joy in nothing but rational actions.
Choose not to be harmed and you won't feel harmed. Don't feel harmed and you haven't been.
People are really happier with friends than they are with their families or their spouse or their child.
Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.
Negative people deplete your energy. Surround yourself with love and nourishment and do not allow the creation of negativity in your environment.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
It's just like I'm an athlete, I'm a human being. I have personal issues going on.
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
You can have everything in the world and still be the loneliest man. And that is the most bitter type of loneliness, success has brought me world idolisation and millions of pounds. But it's prevented me from having the one thing we all need: A loving, ongoing relationship.
