76 Quotes by William Lyon Phelps

The kind of happiness that stays with you is the happiness that springs from inward thoughts and emotions.

Not doing more than the average is what keeps the average down.

At a certain age some people's minds close up; they live on their intellectual fat.

There is a strange reluctance on the part of most people to admit that they enjoy life.

To a man the greatest blessing is individual liberty; to a dog it is the last word in despair.

The belief that youth is the happiest time of life is founded on fallacy. The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts, and we grow happier as we grow older.

How essential it is in youth to acquire some intellectual or artistic tastes, in order to furnish the mind, to be able to live inside a mind with attractive and interesting pictures on the walls.

Why is it that so many people are afraid to admit they are happy?

PAINT THE WALLS OF your mind With many beautiful pictures.