A good disposition is a virtue in itself, and it is lasting; the burden of the years cannot depress it, and love that is founded on it endures to the end. — Ovid
The mind that is cheerful in its present state, will be averse to all solicitude as to the future, and will meet the bitter occurrences of life with a placid smile. — Horace
The measure of mental health is the disposition to find good everywhere. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
A person with a positive attitude is like a fruit of all seasons. — Shiv Khera
Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body. — Joseph Addison
To preserve our cheerfulness amid sicknesses and troubles, is a sign of a right and good spirit. — Philip Neri
A positive attitude and a sense of humor go together like biscuits and gravy. — Dolly Parton
A positive attitude, can turn a storm into a sprinkle. — Robert M. Hensel
A willing mind makes a hard journey easy. — Philip Massinger
Not always sunny, but always in a sunny state of mind — Lilly Pulitzer
Happy Disposition Image Quotes
Don't promise when you're happy. Don't reply when you're angry and don't decide when you're sad.
Happy Choose Day Quotes
I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it. — Groucho Marx
Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day. — Henri Nouwen
Sometimes it's important to work for that pot of gold. But other times it's essential to take time off and to make sure that your most important decision in the day simply consists of choosing which color to slide down on the rainbow — Douglas Pagels
Never regret anything that made you smile.
I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it. — Groucho Marx
Feminism's agenda is basic: It asks that women not be forced to 'choose' between public justice and private happiness. — Susan Faludi
Every day we have plenty of opportunities to get angry, stressed or offended. But what you're doing when you indulge these negative emotions is giving something outside yourself power over your happiness. You can choose to not let little things upset you. — Joel Osteen
The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.
Choose a career you love and you will never have to go to work. — Denis Waitley
Each day brings its own colours to be chosen, mixed, pigments of joy, happy moments, smiles and laughter.... And which will you choose? For 'Life' is choice. — John McLeod
In friendship let there be laughter and sharing of pleasures. — Kahlil Gibran
I can choose to be happy, or choose to be miserable every day - waiting until I die. — Angel Haze
What Is A Happy Quotes
What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility. — Leo Tolstoy
love of learning is the most necessary passion ... in it lies our happiness. It's a sure remedy for what ails us, an unending source of pleasure. — Emilie du Chatelet
I'm not interested in fame and glory. It's just that I would like others to know what a happy dance this is. — Frankie Manning
Life is like a piano, the white keys represent happiness and the black shows sadness, but as you go through life's journey, remember that the black keys also makes music.
What a cruel thing is war: to separate and destroy families and friends, and mar the purest joys and happiness God has granted us in this world; to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors, and to devastate the fair face of this beautiful world. — General Robert E. Lee
You are what you want to become. Why search anymore? You are a wonderful manifestation. The whole universe has come together to make your existence possible. There is nothing that is not you. The kingdom of God, the Pure Land, nirvana, happiness, and liberation are all you. — Nhat Hanh
What a cruel thing is war: to separate and destroy families and friends, and mar the purest joys and happiness God has granted us in this world; to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors, and to devastate the fair face of this beautiful world. — Robert E. Lee
Don't let your happiness depend on something you may lose.
Happiness is not determined by what's happening around you, but rather what's happening inside you. Most people depend on others to gain happiness, but the truth is, it always comes from within. — John Spence
How dark it is before the dawn! In reality that was the beginning of my last debauch. I was soon to be catapulted into what I like to call the fourth dimension of existence. I was to know happiness, peace, and usefulness, in a way of life that is incredibly more wonderful as time passes. — Bill W.
Your life is a gift from the Creator. Your gift back to the Creator is what you do with your life. — Billy Mills
To the barefoot man, happiness is a pair of shoes. To the man with old shoes, it's a pair of new shoes. To the man with new shoes, it's stylish shoes. And of course, the fellow with no feet would be happy to be barefoot. Measure your life by what you have not by what you don't. — Michael Josephson
Good Disposition Quotes
Canadian weather resembles a slightly spoiled beautiful girl with a good heart, but a bad disposition. After being horrid for much too long a time, she suddenly turns right about and makes up for everything with so much charm that you vow again you always loved her! — Wilder Penfield
Most true happiness comes from one's inner life, from the disposition of the mind and soul. Admittedly, a good inner life is difficult to achieve, especially in these trying times. It takes reflection and contemplation and self-discipline. — William L. Shirer
Man's value before God is estimated by the dispositions of his heart, its uprightness, its good will, its charity, and not by keenness of intellect or extent of knowledge. — Anne Catherine Emmerich
How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.
[F]alsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good dispositions. — Thomas Jefferson
Holiness is a disposition of the heart that makes us humble and little in the arms of God, aware of our weakness, and confident - in the most audacious way - in His Fatherly goodness. — Therese of Lisieux
Character is the sum of one's good habits (virtues) and bad habits (vices). These habits mark us and affect the ways in which we respond to life's events and challenges. Our character is our profile of habits and dispositions to act in certain ways. — Thomas Lickona
Do not set aside your happiness. Do not wait to be happy in the future. The best time to be happy is always now.
Thence, I suppose, my natural disposition to make fresh acquaintances, and to break with them so readily, although always for a good reason, and never through mere fickleness. — Giacomo Casanova
If one has a good disposition, what other virtue is needed? If a man has fame, what is the value of other ornamentation? — Chanakya
Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures. — Samuel Richardson
Happy Mood Quotes
The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood. — Voltaire
You create your own decoration. You choose your color, you choose your mood. ... If you are depressed, you put some bright yellow and suddenly you are happy. — Philippe Starck
When you're happy you enjoy the music, but when you're sad you understand the lyrics. — Frank Ocean
Never regret a day in your life: good days give happiness, bad days give experience, worst days give lessons, and best days give memories.
When my cats aren't happy, I'm not happy. Not because I care about their mood but because I know they're just sitting there thinking up ways to get even. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion. Life is like a train of moods like a string of beads, and, as we pass through them, they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue. . . . — Ralph Waldo Emerson
You don't think in depression that you've put on a gray veil and are seeing the world through the haze of a bad mood. You think that the veil has been taken away, the veil of happiness, and that now you're seeing truly. — Andrew Solomon
Enjoy life now. This is not a rehearsal.
If someone decides they're not going to be happy, it's not your problem. You don't have to spend your time and energy trying to cheer up someone who has already decided to stay in a bad mood. Believe it or not, you can actually hurt people by playing into their self-pity. — Joyce Meyer
I like dogs. You always know what a dog is thinking. It has four moods. Happy, sad, cross and concentrating. Also, dogs are faithful and they do not tell lies because they cannot talk. — Mark Haddon
It is OK to be happy in life. Even through all the strife, maybe especially during times of great pain and suffering. We still have to be able to stay close to that joy because we can't save the world in a bad mood. — Andrew W.K.
We are constituted so that simple acts of kindness, such as giving to charity or expressing gratitude, have a positive effect on our long-term moods. The key to the happy life, it seems, is the good life: a life with sustained relationships, challenging work, and connections to community. — Paul Bloom
Happy-go-lucky Quotes
I'm a happy-go-lucky character. I'm not that miserable. But I can never let anyone into my world. — Noel Gallagher
I'm not melancholy; I'm a happy-go-lucky person, kind of silly. I like funny things. I have a lot of energy. I tend to like music that's mellow, though. — Norah Jones
I'm a very comfortable and happy-go-lucky old man. I never wanted to be great, because I'd just get worried. — Tom T. Hall
Happiness is letting go of what you think your life is supposed to look like and celebrating it for everything that it is.
I’m always happy-go-lucky, and people look at me and find it shocking that I could be depressed. — Terry Bradshaw
I came on to the film with a very happy-go-lucky attitude which I think my character, Charlie, did when she went into the house. I expected it to be good, and then slowly things started to change for us all. — Jennifer Sky
I don't feel any pressure from fans. But I'm always in some kind of state of emotional turmoil. I would not describe myself as happy-go-lucky. That's not to say that I'm not happy. — Paul Simon
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
My life doesn't change. I still have to go out and work hard every day, and do the best that I can do. I'm a third generation Californian, and there's a lot of talented, good-looking guys in California, so I'm just happy to be working, and lucky to be working. — Scott Eastwood
I know nothing more enjoyable than that happy-go-lucky wandering life, in which you are perfectly free; without shackles of any kind, without care, without preoccupation, without thought even of to-morrow. You go in any direction you please, without any guide save your fancy. — Guy de Maupassant
Men who are driven are happy in their work and their vision but are not happy-go-lucky. Evelyn has a happiness and contentment most of the time -- she's my balance. — Oral Roberts
Pressure is what you feel when you don't know what's going on. — Chuck Noll
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances. — Benjamin Franklin
He who is of a calm and happy nature, will hardly feel the pressure of age — Plato
I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition. — Martha Washington
He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts. — Samuel Johnson
I am still determined to be cheerful and to be happy in whatever situation I may be, for I have also learnt from experianence that the greater part of our happiness or misary depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances; we carry the seeds of the one, or the other about with us, in our minds, wherever we go. — Martha Washington
I am still determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may be. — Martha Washington
You cannot be healthy; you cannot be happy; you cannot be prosperous; if you have a bad disposition. — Emmet Fox
Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients; action, pleasure and indolence. And though these ingredients ought to be mixed in different proportions, according to the disposition of the person, yet no one ingredient can be entirely wanting without destroying in some measure the relish of the whole composition. composition. — David Hume
He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden. — Plato
Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her. — Jane Austen
There are seeds of happiness in every soul. Our mental attitude and dispositions constitute the environment in which these seeds germinate. There is as much need for sunshine in our heart as for sunshine in the world. Today, as perhaps never before, mankind needs encouragement and cheer. — David O. Mckay
Most true happiness comes from one's inner life, from the disposition of the mind and soul. — William L. Shirer
There are men whom a happy disposition, a strong desire of glory and esteem, inspire with the same love for justice and virtue which men in general have for riches and honors... But the number of these men is so small that I only mention them in honor of humanity. — Claud-Adrian Helvetius
There are seeds of happiness planted in every human soul. Our mental attitude and disposition constitute the environment in which these seeds may germinate. — David O. Mckay
A sunny disposition is worth more than fortune. — Andrew Carnegie
There are men whom a happy disposition, a strong desire of glory and esteem, inspire with the same love for justice and virtue which men in general have for riches and honors. But the number of these men is so small that I only mention them in honor of humanity. — Claude Adrien Helvetius
If a civil word or two will render a man happy, he must be a wretch indeed who will not give them to him. Such a disposition is like lighting another man's candle by one's own, which loses none of its brilliancy by what the other gains. — William Penn
Two famous happy warriors - Reagan and his political soulmate, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher - knew they were fighting their own ideological and external wars. But they did so with the sunny dispositions and positive outlooks of those who knew they were on the right side of history. — Monica Crowley
The Constitution of America only guarantees pursuit of happiness-you have to catch up with it yourself. Fortunately, happiness is something that depends not on position but on disposition, and life is what you make it. — Gill Robb Wilson
Happiness is less regulated by external circumstances than inward enjoyment. Whoever is happy in the satisfaction of himself feels imperturbable felicity; but he, who trusts entirely to the world for the disposition of his peace, must inevitably participate [in] many privations and disappointments. — Norm MacDonald
I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances. — Martha Washington
However benevolent may be the intentions of Providence, they do not always advance the happiness of the individual. Providence has always higher ends in view, and works in a pre-eminent degree on the inner feelings and disposition. — Wilhelm von Humboldt
Happiness is an endowment and not an acquisition. It depends more upon temperament and disposition than environment. — John James Ingalls
There's nothing particularly dark in my past... I live in the light. My disposition is basically happy. I have a good life. — Lisa Unger
People of superior refinement and of active disposition identify happiness with honour; for this is roughly speaking, the end of political life. — Aristotle
A happy disposition is largely a disposition to make others happy. One life permeates all things, and there is no corner of the cosmos too remote to feel its heart throb. — Henry Wood
The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances. — Martha Washington
If you were to give me forty such men, I never could be so happy as you. Till I have your disposition, your goodness, I never can have your happiness. No, no, let me shift for myself; and, perhaps, if I have very good luck, I may meet with another Mr. Collins in time. — Jane Austen
Chocolate causes certain endocrine glands to secrete hormones that affect your feelings and behavior by making you happy. Therefore, it counteracts depression, in turn reducing the stress of depression. Your stress-free life helps you maintain a youthful disposition, both physically and mentally. So, eat lots of chocolate! — Elaine Sherman
Men of the noblest dispositions think themselves happiest when others share their happiness with them. — Barry Duncan
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. — Martha Washington
Mine is a most peaceable disposition. My wishes are: a humble cottage with a thatched roof, but a good bed, good food, the freshest milk and butter, flowers before my window, and a few fine trees before my door; and if God wants to make my happiness complete, He will grant me the joy of seeing some six or seven of my enemies hanging from those trees. — Heinrich Heine
It is a proverbial expression that every man is the maker of his own fortune, and we usually regard it as implying that every man by his folly or wisdom prepares good or evil for himself. But we may view it in another light, namely, that we may so accommodate ourselves to the dispositions of Providence as to be happy in our lot, whatever may be its privations. — Alexander von Humboldt
A name with meaning could bring up a child,
Taking the child out of the parents' hands.
Better a meaningless name, I should say,
As leaving more to nature and happy chance.
Name children some names and see what you do. — Robert Frost
There are two very natural propensities which we may distinguish in the most virtuous and liberal dispositions, the love of pleasure and the love of action. If the former is refined by art and learning, improved by the charms of social intercourse, and corrected by a just regard to economy, to health, and to reputation, it is productive of the greatest part of the happiness of private life. — Edward Gibbon
Jane had that happy disposition which would like to imagine that every one really wishes the well-being of his neighbour and struggles, though sometimes rather disastrously, to help him towards it. — Phyllis Bottome
The most favourable laws can do very little towards the happiness of people when the disposition of the ruling power is adverse to them. — Edmund Burke
I longed that those who, I have reason to think, owe me ill will, might be eternally happy. It seemed refreshing to think of meeting them in heaven, how much soever they had injured me on earth: had no disposition to insist upon any confession from them, in order to reconciliation, and the exercise of love and kindness to them. Oh! it is an emblem of heaven itself, to love all the world with a love of kindness, forgiveness, and benevolence. — David Brainerd
Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim tribute to patriotism who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness - these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens. . . . reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principles. — George Washington
A perverse temper and fretful disposition will make any state of life whatsoever unhappy. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
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