I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.

We carry the seeds of happiness with us wherever we go.

Keep your business affairs in your own hands. It's the only way to be happy.

I live a very dull life here... indeed I think I am more like a state prisoner than anything else.

I am still determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may be.

I am only fond of what comes from the heart.

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.

I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our disposition and not on our circumstances.

Steady as a clock busy as a bee and cheerful as a cricket.

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances.

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances.

I had to take a step of faith and look beyond my circumstances. I had to make a conscious choice to trust Him.

How careless of me!" By which she meant that she had deduced that he had found [them] in his pocket and pitied him for needing to be forever in the right.

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.

Stop thinking about global warming as a future threat and understand it instead as a present emergency, one that requires a far stronger policy response than we'd imagined.

Showing gratitude for the good things you have is the most powerful happiness boosting activity there is.

I think it would be a good idea.

When I was a teenager, my dad watched my films and told me I could go to art college and study animation. He made me see that I could do this for a living.

The machine unmakes the man. Now that the machine is so perfect, the engineer is nobody.

You can be moderate in a way and still intense in your views. It's the extremism that gets frightening; religious fundamentalism and wacko-left liberalism is crazy.