228 quotes found
“All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest it seems is an interest in life good bad or peculiar.”
“We are not troubled by things but by the opinion which we have of things.”
“One loses many laughs by not laughing at oneself.”
“Things are in their essence what we choose to make them. A thing is according to the mode in which one looks at it.”
“To jealousy nothing is more frightful than laughter.”
“We are never so happy or so unhappy as we think.”
“Humor is an affirmation of dignity a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.”
“The most unhappy of all men is he who believes himself to be so.”
“Happiness does not depend on outward things but on the way we see them.”
“Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.”
“The mind is its own place and in itself can make a heaven of hell a hell of heaven.”
“Wrinkles should only indicate where smiles have been.”
“Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.”
“Humor is a means of obtaining pleasure in spite of the distressing effects that interface with it.”
“Riches like glory or health have no more beauty or pleasure than their possessor is pleased to lend them.”
“If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it you might as well laugh about it now.”
“Humor is just another defense against the universe.”
“Losses are comparative imagination only makes them of any moment.”
“Humor is the healthy way of feeling "distance" between one's self and the problem a way of standing off and looking at one's problems with perspective.”
“Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.”
