The mind is malleable. Our life can be greatly transformed by even a minimal change in how we manage our thoughts and perceive and interpret the world. Happiness is a skill. It requires effort and time.

When hearing a door creak, the optimist thinks it's opening and the pessimist thinks it's closing.

I think if your direction in life is clear and if you develop the wish to accomplish/have a fulfilled life and to contribute something to others, I think that definitely gives you such a strength to want to be alive, that that would be the best placebo.

Various studies indicate that with age people gain more wisdom about life and are somehow happier than younger people. This is especially true if, as we age, we learn how to become more generous, altruistic, and peaceful.

While it may be difficult to change the world, it is always possible to change the way we look at it.

Happiness is a state of inner fulfillment, not the gratification of inexhaustible desires for outward things.

It is in learning music that many youthful hearts learn to love.