Rainer Werner Fassbinder Quotes

Happiness is the first principle of life. Happiness basically means well-being. It is always good and always a choice... We need to make the choice to be happy in a particular situation, just as it is, and at a given moment.

Flourishing is everyone's birthright. I'm trying to break this hold that being smiley and cheery has on what people think the good life is.

I think you can be depressed and flourish, I think you can have cancer and flourish, I think you can be divorced and flourish. When we believed that happiness was only smiling and good mood, that wasn't very good for people like me, people in the lower half of positive affectivity.

A merry heart doeth good like medicine.

It just seems to me that the world's kind of a mess, and the more messy it gets, the more interested I am in escapist fare. Having a good time is something that isn't about the war in Iraq or the Asian flu or the Kyoto protocol - things that are horribly depressing to consider in our real lives. I'm eager to get away from them.

It's the easiest thing in the world to be down about anything. I think the body responds to good vibes.

Calm mind brings inner strength and self-confidence, so that's very important for good health.

First, I eat healthy; it comes from the inside out. If you eat right, your skin, hair, nails will look good. The same if you have negative thoughts - they can give you a bad look, too; we reflect what we eat and think. We also taste and smell what we eat. Being happy and doing what I love really reflects.

I usually write when I'm in a great place. When I'm depressed, I don't usually write. So I take all of when I'm depressed and throw it into when I'm feeling good. Weird, I guess.

Anything that instills a sense of hope will at least temporarily help treat depression.

The great thing about life - I'd rather not know and just hope I'm happy and healthy and I feel as good about my life as I do now.

It's sort of my job to feel good.

Concern should drive us into action, not into a depression.

I've always wanted to play a role in inspiring people to be better, to live higher quality lives and to feel good about the way that they look and feel.

I was born with a happy heart, and I try to keep a good attitude. It's not true that I'm happy all the time because nobody is, and we all go through our things.

We get older, and we forget that we have to carve a little time out to feel good in your body, in your head, and in your spirit.

My doctors warned me repeatedly that if you don't stay positive, you don't do well.

I think so much depends on how you are feeling mentally and emotionally. I try to keep my head on tight, and try to feel good, and just go out there and not be afraid.

If you feel good, you're going to look good.

'Thank you power' is writing down the moments that are good in your life so that you can go back and reflect on them - so you've got this sort of repository of good stuff in your past.

While I still have more good days than bad days, I'm going to keep playing.

Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.

The best of healers is good cheer.

I am an optimist, and I believe that people are inherently good and that if you give everyone a voice and freedom of expression, the truth and the good will outweigh the bad.

When you are healthy mentally, physically, emotionally, spiritually - when you're doing well, you're likely to do good things in life.