A Scout smiles and whistles under all circumstances.

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

I probably wouldn’t have made it this far if I were a refugee.

This is a ruthless world and one must be ruthless to cope with it.

The best workers, like the happiest livers, look upon their work as a kind of game: the harder they play the more enjoyable it becomes.

A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will’s freedom after it.

I like criticism. It makes you strong.

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

I need privacy. I would think that because what I do makes a lot of people happy that I might deserve a little bit of respect in return. Instead, the papers try to drag me off my pedestal.

Real joy seems to me almost as unlike security or prosperity as it is unlike agony.

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one’s family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one’s own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.

It’s important that we invest in America – literally. The terrorists wanted to destroy our economy, and we can’t let our system fall apart. We also have to invest in one another.

Saints can be happy under every circumstance.

Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore; only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then.

Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

Let the people on both sides keep their self-possession, and just as other clouds have cleared away in due time, so will this, and this great nation shall continue to prosper as before.

Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one’s self to do without it.

I collect records. And cats. I don’t have any cats right now. But if I’m taking a walk and I see a cat, I’m happy.

Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.

From my close observation of writers… they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any bad review, and 2) those who bleed copiously and secretly at any bad review.

Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own.

I am happy and I’m single.

Most of us aren’t defeated in one decisive battle. We are defeated one tiny, seemingly insignificant surrender at a time that chips away at who we should really be.

A lot of times, people make other people responsible for their joy: ‚You’re not making me happy, you’re not doing this, you’re not doing that.‘

All the awards in the world, you can get into all the nightclubs, they’ll send you the nicest clothes. Nothing better than walking into your dad’s restaurant and seeing a smile on his face and knowing that your mom and dad and your sister are real proud of you.

I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.

Losing is tough.

Prospering just doesn’t have to do with money.

A woman’s heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe.

There are certain things that bother me and certain things that don’t. Personal attacks on me? I think I’m just so used to it.

For other nations, utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered; for Americans it is just beyond the horizon.

As a vulnerability researcher, the greatest barrier I see is our low tolerance for vulnerability. We’re almost afraid to be happy. We feel like it’s inviting disaster.

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

It is with your aid, as the people, that I think we shall be able to preserve – not the country, for the country will preserve itself, but the institutions of the country – those institutions which have made us free, intelligent and happy – the most free, the most intelligent, and the happiest people on the globe.

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

I’m pretty positive, optimistic, so I always expect the best.

I prefer to praise people and the world rather than criticize them and it.

If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.

If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace.

Sometimes God will deliver you from the fire, and other times God will make you fireproof.

What’s real freedom? Real freedom is being able to not have my way and still be just as happy as if I did.

Great tragedy has come to us, and we are meeting it with the best that is in our country, with courage and concern for others because this is America. This is who we are.

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.

If someone you know makes a bad decision or uses bad judgment, it doesn’t mean you have to allow that to alter your attitude. Why should you allow anyone else’s bad decisions to send you into a tailspin of misery?

Most of us experience a life full of wonderful moments and difficult moments. But for many of us, even when we are most joyful, there is fear behind our joy.

I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.

And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.

A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.

How one life turns out is not dependent on what people do to us or what they don’t do for us.

Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.

Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

I was raised to be an independent woman, not the victim of anything.

Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.

Our words will either bring life and victory or death and destruction. If we want to be happy, we have to be serious about speaking words of life that line up with God’s Word.

My belief is that we were put into this world of wonders and beauty with a special ability to appreciate them, in some cases to have the fun of taking a hand in developing them, and also in being able to help other people instead of overreaching them and, through it all, to enjoy life – that is, to be happy.

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.

People want you to fail.

The sun doesn’t always shine in West Virginia, but the people do.

Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always to be blest.

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.