All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.
The mind is malleable. Our life can be greatly transformed by even a minimal change in how we manage our thoughts and perceive and interpret the world. Happiness is a skill. It requires effort and time.
They are fighting for the chair while I am fighting for your happiness.
The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.
The trick. . . is to find the balance between the bright colors of humor and the serious issues of identity, self-loathing, and the possibility for intimacy and love when it seems no longer possible or, sadder yet, no longer necessary.
Woman is not made to be the admiration of all, but the happiness of one.
I always thought that if I ever got good reviews I'd be happy. It's so empty. It's never what I wanted, ever. All I wanted was just what everybody else wants, you know - to be loved.
Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.
Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.
There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.
Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.
Surely happiness is reflective, like the light of heaven.
It is not our level of prosperity that makes for happiness but the kinship of heart to heart and the way we look at the world. Both attitudes lie within our power, so that a man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy, and no one can stop him.
When we live in the spirit of gratitude, there will be much happiness in our life. The one who is grateful is the one who has much happiness while the one who is ungrateful will not be able to have happiness.
We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
The present time has one advantage over every other -- it is our own.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Every discord is a harmony not understood. Happiness is a disease, and pain, a medicine.
Happiness comes from self-knowledge. Self-knowledge means that you have understood your mind. Your mind is the whole universe.
being made happy isn't receiving something new, it's being made to understand what we have.