I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach, when feeling out of sight for the ends of being and ideal grace.

Your depression is connected to your insolence and refusal to praise.

No duty is more urgent than giving thanks.

We don’t need more to be thankful for, we just need to be more thankful.

Any one thing in creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Providence to a humble and grateful mind.

Be grateful for your life, every detail of it, and your face will come to shine like a sun, and everyone who sees it will be made glad and peaceful.

Seek not, my soul, the life of the immortals; but enjoy to the full resources that are within thy reach.

Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.

It’s better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone.

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

The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.

I am a true laborer: I earn that I eat, get that I wear, owe no man hate, envy no man’s happiness, glad of other men’s good, content with my harm.

Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.

Every heart that has beat strong and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.

There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means—either may do—the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

Those who drink to drown their sorrow should be told sorrow knows how to swim.