Happy

If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be.

"I just do not hang around anybody that i don't want to be with. Period. For me, that's been a blessing, and I can stay positive. I hang around people who are happy, who are growing, who want to learn, who don't mind sayin sorry or thank you... and [are] having a fun time."

"A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes."

"Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same."

"I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances."

"In order for people to be happy, sometimes they have to take risks. It's true these risks can put them in danger of being hurt."

"Very little is needed to make a happy life."

"No man is happy who does not think himself so."

"Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age."

"I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy."

"If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us least live so as to deserve it."

"Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be."

"A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance."

"Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy."