A Book of Quotes

by
Cathleen Spacil

BrainBeHappy.com

Life Designs by Cathleen

In 2006, I was diagnosed with a mental illness known as bipolar affective disorder. It is
now 2011 and I have now been given new labels of schizoaffective disorder, borderline
personality disorder, dementia, panic disorder with agoraphobia and post traumatic
stress disorder. In November of 2009 I underwent ECT (electro convulsive therapy)
treatments and suffered brain damage. I lost my memory and suffer from long-term
and short-term memory problems. I also have cognitive brain functioning problems. I
spent 9 weeks in the hospital at the end of 2009. When I came out of the hospital, just
before Christmas, all I basically understood was that I had a family who loved me and I
loved them. Other than that fact, nothing made sense to me and I didnt know what my
purpose in life was.
I spent the next year trying to piece my life back together. I spent most of my time being
scared, confused and depressed. I couldnt understand what had happened to me or
why it had happened to me. I spent a lot of time crying and feeling really sorry for
myself. I wasnt going anywhere and things in my life seemed to be getting worse.
In March of 2011 my life went from 100% negative to 100% positive. What changed?
Me. Did my mental illness disappear? No. I still am diagnosed with all of the above
disorders and yes, I still have short-term and long-term memory loss and there are days
that Im really confused. But what changed was how I look at life. How I choose to look
at my situation. How I choose to face each day that is given to me. I have decided to
choose HAPPINESS.
So is it possible to be happy if you have a mental illness or if you are suffering from
brain damage, or from any other disabling disease or disability? YES! I am living proof
of this. I coach people who are dealing with daily trials like mine and we are using the
principals of Happiness and Joy as the basis of our recovery. I am a survivor of mental
illness and brain injury and will always be due to the fact that I have chosen to fill my
days with happiness and find the positive things in life instead of focusing on the things
that I dont have or focusing on the bad things that have happened to me. We all have a
choice. It doesnt matter what happened to us, whos fault it was, what the
circumstances were, the fact is it happened. Now, what are we going to do about it? I
choose happiness and choose to fill my life with good instead of bad and negativity. I
challenge all of you to do the same.
For this reason, I have compiled the following quotes and images on happiness. In
doing so, Ive highlighted a few of the authors on happiness. Some of these authors had
many trials in their lives, some were philosophers and studied life in general, some
were famous, and one was even unknown .
My desire is that you find joy and happiness as you spend time skimming through this
book. There is no wrong or right way to read this book. You can read it from front to
back, from back to front, or just take a minute and pick it up and read a few quotes, or

just look at a few of the images. Just like life, there is not just one way to do life. Life is a
journey of many courses. What matters is how well we endure the journey. I choose to
endure the journey happily.
Cheerfully, with lots of smiles, and hugs,
Cathleen
Author Unknown This is the most well-known author of
quotes . Many people say many things and other people
pick up on those things that are said It doesnt matter who
says what, really. If it makes someone smile, its worth
writing down, so it becomes a famous quote. This book
contains 13 famous quotes by unknown artists. I think there
is an artist in all of us. So go ahead, say something. It might
become a famous quote and make someone happy!
Bertrand Russell 1872-1970 British author, humanist, logician,
mathematician, pacifist and philosopher; received the Nobel Prize in
Literature in 1950. Although he had a lonely childhood and often
spoke about committing suicide, he somehow found a way to turn
his life around and has written many things regarding positive
thinking and happiness. He had two sons who were diagnosed as
schizophrenic.

Johann Walgang Von Goethe 1749-1832 a German writer,

drawer, and polymath. He is considered the supreme genius of
modern German literature side by side with Schiller. His works
span the fields of poetry, drama, prose, philosophy, and science.
Goethe suffered from depression and was even suicidal and
shot his hero to save himself in one of his key works of art. He
also wrote beautiful quotes on happiness.

Aristotle (7 quotes) 384 BC to 322 BC Greek philosopher, a

student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great. His
writings cover many subjects, including physics,
metaphysics, poetry, theater, music, logic, rhetoric,
linguistics, politics, government, ethics, biology, and zoology.
Together with Plato and Socrates (Plato's teacher), Aristotle is
one of the most important founding figures in Western
philosophy. Aristotle's writings were the first to create a
comprehensive system of Western philosophy, encompassing
morality and aesthetics, logic and science, politics and
metaphysics.

Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882 American lecturer, philosopher,

essayist, and poet, best remembered for leading the
Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. He was seen
as a champion of individualism and a prescient critic of the
countervailing pressures of society, and he disseminated his
thoughts through dozens of published essays and more than 1,500
public lectures across the United States.

Albert Camus 1913-1960 French Algerian author, journalist, and

key philosopher. He was awarded the 1957 Nobel Prize for
Literature "for his important literary production, which with clearsighted earnestness illuminates the problems of the human
conscience in our times". Through his works, he taught people how
to have a greater appreciation for life and happiness.

Dalai Lama The 14th Dalai Lama (religious name: Tenzin

Gyatso, shortened from Jetsun Jamphel Ngawang Lobsang
Yeshe Tenzin Gyatso, born Lhamo Dondrub, 6 July 1935, is
the 14th and current Dalai Lama. Dalai Lamas are the most
influential figures in the Gelugpa lineage of Tibetan
Buddhism, although the 14th has consolidated control
over the other lineages in recent years. He won the Nobel
Peace Prize in 1989, and is also well known for his lifelong
advocacy for Tibetans inside and outside Tibet. Tibetans
traditionally believe him to be the reincarnation of his
predecessors and a manifestation of the Bodhisattva of
Compassion.
Helen Keller 1880-1968 American author, political
activist, and lecturer. She was the first deaf and blind
person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree. The story of
how Keller's teacher, Anne Sullivan, broke through the
isolation imposed by a near complete lack of language,
allowing the girl to blossom as she learned to
communicate, has become widely known through the
dramatic depictions of the play and film The Miracle
Worker. Helen Keller was not born blind and deaf; it
was not until she was 19 months old that she contracted
an illness described by doctors as "an acute congestion
of the stomach and the brain", which might have been
scarlet fever or meningitis. The illness did not last for a particularly long time, but it left
her deaf and blind.
Thomas Jefferson 1743-1826 The third President of the United
States (18011809) and the principal author of the Declaration of
Independence (1776). An influential Founding Father, Jefferson
envisioned America as a great "Empire of Liberty" that would
promote republicanism. His oldest sister died when he was 22 and
he fell into a deep period of mourning. Only 2 of his 6 children
lived to adulthood. A few months after the birth of their last child,
his wife Martha died. He never remarried and deeply mourned her loss. Even though
he suffered many losses, he still found many ways to make a BIG impact on this world
and was even found quoting words of happiness.

Abraham Lincoln 1809-1865 The 16th President of the

United States, serving from March 1861 until his
assassination. He successfully led the country through a
great constitutional, military and moral crisisthe
American Civil Warpreserving the Union while
ending slavery and promoting economic modernization.
Reared in a poor family on the western frontier, he was
mostly self-educated. He became a country lawyer, an
Illinois state legislator, and a one-term member of the
United States House of Representatives but failed in two
attempts at a seat in the United States Senate. He was an
affectionate, though often absent, husband and father of
four children. It is well known that Lincoln suffered
from clinical depression, however he used tools of happiness to save our nation!
Annelies Marie "Anne" Frank 1929-1945 One of the most
renowned and most discussed Jewish victims of the Holocaust.
Acknowledged for the quality of her writing, her diary has
become one of the world's most widely read books, and has been
the basis for several plays and films. Although she went through
one of the most horrific experiences in the worlds history, she
still found a way to find happiness and joy in her days.

Samuel Langhorne Clemens 1835 -1910, better known by his pen

name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist. He
was lauded as the "greatest American humorist of his age," and
William Faulkner called Twain "the father of American literature."
Twain went through a period of deep depression which began
when his daughter, Susy died in 1896. It was documented that he
had other losses that kept him depressed up until his death in
1910. However in 1909 he still had a sense of humor and said I
came in with Halley's Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year,
and I expect to go out with it. It will be the greatest
disappointment of my life if I don't go out with Halley's Comet. The Almighty has said,
no doubt: Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they
must go out together. He died one day after the comets closest approach to the Earth.

Go ahead, laugh, smile and be happy.

You dont even need permission!
~Cathleen Spacil
A bland smile is like a green light at an

A business is successful to the extent

intersection, it feels good when you get

that it provides a product or service

one, but you forget it the moment you're

that contributes to happiness in all of

past it. ~Doug Coupland

its forms. ~Mihaly Csikszentmihaly

A good, real, unrestrained, hearty laugh

is a sort of glorified internal massage,
performed rapidly and automatically. It
manipulates and revitalizes corners and
unexplored crannies of the system that
are unresponsive to most other
exercise methods. ~Unknown

A day without laughter is a day

A gentle word, a kind look, a good-

wasted. ~Charlie Chaplin

natured smile can work wonders and

accomplish miracles. ~William Hazlitt

A good laugh and a long sleep are the

A great obstacle to happiness is to

best cures in the doctor's book.

expect too much happiness.

~Irish Proverb

~Bernard Le Bovier Fontenelle

A happy life consists in tranquility

A happy life consists not in the absence,

of mind. ~Marcus T. Cicero

but in the mastery of hardships.

~Helen Keller

A happy life must be to great extent a

A happy person is not a person in a

quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of

certain set of circumstances, but

quiet that true joy can live. ~Bertrand

rather a person with a certain set

Russell

of attitudes. ~Hugh Downs

A laugh is a smile that bursts.

A man isn't poor if he can still

~Mary H. Waldrip

laugh. ~Raymond Hitchcock

A hearty laugh gives one a dry cleaning,

A lifetime of happiness? No man alive

while a good cry is a wet wash.

could bear it; it would be hell on earth.

~Puzant Kevork Thomajan

~George Bernard Shaw

A man is happy so long as he chooses

to be happy and nothing can stop him.
~Alexander Solzhenitsyn
A mind always employed is always happy.
This is the true secret, the grand recipe,
for felicity. ~Thomas Jefferson

A person who can bring the spirit of

laughter into a room is indeed blessed.
~Bennett Cerf

A mans as happy as he
thinks he is. ~Unknown
A person is never happy till their vague
strivings has itself marked out its
proper limitations.
~Johann Wolgang Von Goethe
A person will be called to account on
Judgment Day for every permissible
thing he might have enjoyed
but did not. ~Talmud

A sense of humor... is needed armor. Joy in

one's heart and some laughter on one's lips
is a sign that the person
down deep has a pretty good grasp
of life. ~Hugh Sidey

A smile is a curve that sets everything

A smile is a facelift that's in everyone's

straight. ~Phyllis Diller

price range! ~Tom Wilson

A smile is happiness you'll find right under

A smile is the chosen vehicle of all

your nose. ~Tom Wilson

ambiguities. ~Herman Melville

A smile is the light in your window that tells

others that there is a caring, sharing
person inside. ~Denis Waitley

A smile is the universal welcome.

~Max Eastman

A smile starts on the lips, A grin spreads to

the eyes, A chuckle comes from the belly;
But a good laugh bursts forth from the
soul, Overflows, and bubbles all around
~ Carolyn Birmingham

A stale article, if you dip it in a good,

warm, sunny smile, will go off better than
a fresh one that you've scowled upon.
~Nathaniel Hawthorne

A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous

pleasures is not happiness; happiness
resides in imaginative reflection and
judgment, when the picture of ones life,
or of human life, as it truly has been or
is, satisfies the will, and is gladly
accepted. ~George Santayana

A woman has two smiles that an angel

might envy, the smile that accepts a lover
A warm smile is the universal language

before words are uttered, and the smile

of kindness. ~William Arthur Ward

that lights on the first born babe, and

assures it of a mother's love.
~Thomas Chandler Haliburton

A truly happy person is one who can enjoy

the scenery while on a detour. ~Unknown

A woman whose smile is open and whose

expression is glad has a kind of beauty no
matter what she wears. ~Anne Roiphe
Acting is a sense of wonder and magic

Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a

reason in the world. Then you can love, and
do what you will. ~Dan Millman

and mystery for me and when life takes

me on a new journey, I simply remember
the smile my first ballet recital put on my
face and I move forward.
~Andrea Thompson

After every storm the sun will smile; for

every problem there is a solution, and the
soul's indefeasible duty is to be of good
cheer. ~William R. Alger
All you need for happiness is a good gun, a
good horse, and a good wife.
~Daniel Boone

All seasons are beautiful for the person

who carries happiness within.
~Horace Friess
All you need in the world is love and
laughter. That's all anybody needs. To
have love in one hand and laughter in
the other. ~August Wilson

Allowing yourself to smile takes 99% of

Always keep your smile. That's how I

the effort. ~Simon Travaglia

explain my long life. ~Jeanne Calment

Amour is the one human activity of any

importance in which laughter and pleasure
preponderate, if ever so slightly, over
misery and pain. ~Aldous Huxley

And History will smile to think that this is

And if you see me, smile and maybe give

the species for which Socrates and Jesus

me a hug. That's important to me too.

Christ died. ~Julien Benda

~Jim Valvano

And the smile that is worth the praises of

Anyone who has a continuous smile on his

earth is the smile that shines through

face conceals a toughness that is

tears. ~Ella Wheeler Wilcox

almost frightening. ~Greta Garbo

Arnold Palmer has what I call an

'Eisenhower smile'. Those two men, they'd
smile and their whole faces would look so
pleasant; it was like they were smiling
all over. ~Byron Nelson

Anyone who says sunshine brings

happiness has never danced in the rain.
~Unknown

Anything youre good at contributes to

happiness. ~Bertrand Russell
As long as you smile, have sparkly eyes

As happy a man as any in the world, for

and stick your shoulders back, nobody's

the whole world seems to smile upon me!

going to notice your bum or your waist or

~Samuel Pepys

your feet, for that matter.

~Cat Deeley

Ask yourself whether you are happy and

you cease to be so. ~John Stuart Mill

At the height of laughter, the universe is

flung into a kaleidoscope of new
possibilities. ~Jean Houston

Back of every mistaken venture and

defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you
listen. ~Carl Sandburg
Be open to your happiness and sadness as
they arise. ~John M. Thomas

You feel completely in control when you hear

a wave of laughter coming back at you
that you have caused. ~Gilda Radner
Beauty comes from a life well lived. If

Being funny is one of my greatest

you've lived well, your smile lines are in the

strengths. I can make girls smile when

right places, and your frown lines aren't

they're down, and when they're having a

too bad, what more do you need?

good time, I can carry on the joke.

~Jennifer Garner

~John Krasinski
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your

Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds

abilities! Without a humble but reasonable

her own face in a perfect mirror.

confidence in your own powers you cannot

~Rabindranath Tagore

be successful or happy.
~Norman Vincent Peale

Be happy. Its one way of being wise.

Beautiful isle of the sea, Smile on the

~Colette

brow of the waters. ~George Cooper

Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.

~John Ray

Before you talk about what you want really appreciate what you have before
it's gone. ~Ethan Daniel

Being happy is something you have to learn.

I often surprise myself by saying Wow,

Being in a rock band is about touring.

this is it. I guess Im happy. I got a home

It's about writing songs and it's about

I love. A career that I love. Im even

making records but it's also about taking

feeling more and more at peace with

a wonderful smile onto that stage and

myself. If theres something else to

making the people feel good about

happiness, let me know. Im ambitious for

themselves. ~James Young

that, too. ~Harrison Ford

Better by far you should forget and smile

But what is happiness except the simple

than that you should remember and be sad.

harmony between a man and the life he

~Christina G. Rossetti

leads? ~Albert Camus

Celebrate the happiness that friends are
always giving, make every day a holiday
and celebrate just living!
~Amanda Bradley
Your smile will give you a positive
countenance that will make people feel
comfortable around you. ~Les Brown

Carry laughter with you wherever you go.

~Hugh Sidey

Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Children learn to smile from their parents.

~Socrates

~Shinichi Suzuki

Change your thoughts and you change

Dont cry because its over, smile because

your world. ~William James

it happened. ~Unknown

Close friends contribute to our personal

growth. They also contribute to our
personal pleasure, making the music sound
sweeter, the wine taste richer, the
laughter ring louder because they
are there. ~Judith Viorst
Comedy, we may say, is society protecting
itself - with a smile. ~J. B. Priestley

Comedy is defiance. It's a snort of

contempt in the face of fear and
anxiety. And it's the laughter that allows
hope to creep back on the inhale.
~Will Durst
Courage, not compromise, brings the smile
of God's approval.
~Thomas S. Monson

Crowds are the most difficult thing for me

these days because I have to walk with
my head down and my eyes averted.
There's still that part of me that wants to
hold my head up, make eye contact
and smile. ~Cameron Diaz
Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you
ever see a bird that had the blues? One
reason why birds and horses are not
unhappy is because they are not trying to
impress other birds and horses.

Do you want my one-word secret of

happiness? Its growth - mental,
financial, you name it. ~Harold S. Geneen

~Dale Carnegie
Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails.
What puts man in a higher state of
evolution is that he has got his laugh on the
right end. ~Max Eastman

Even if there is nothing to laugh about,

laugh on credit. ~Unknown

Dont ask yourself what the world needs;

ask yourself what makes you come alive.
And then go and do that. Because what
the world needs is people who have come
alive. ~Harold Whitman
Don't cry when the sun is gone, because
the tears won't let you see the stars.
~Violeta Parra

Dont rely on someone else for your

happiness and self worth. Only you can be
responsible for that. If you cant love
and respect yourself no one else will be
able to make that happen. Accept who
you are - completely, the good and the
bad - and make changes as YOU see fit,
not because you think someone else
wants you to be different.
~Stacey Charter

Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it

Don't frown. You never know who is

happened. ~Dr. Seuss

falling in love with your smile. ~Unknown

Don't write anything you can phone. Don't

phone anything you can talk. Don't talk
anything you can whisper. Don't whisper
anything you can smile. Don't smile anything
you can nod. Don't nod anything you can
wink. ~Earl Long

Enjoy the little things, for one day you may

look back and realize they were the big
things. ~Robert Brault

You will never be happy if you continue to

search for what happiness consists of.
You will never live if you are looking for the
meaning of life. ~Albert Camus

Each morning when I open my eyes I say

to myself: I, not events, have the power
to make me happy or unhappy today. I
can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is
dead, tomorrow hasnt arrived yet. I
have just one day, today, and Im going
to be happy in it. ~Groucho Marx

Action may not always bring happiness,

but there is no happiness without action.
~Benjamin Disraeli

Every blessed one of you feels better for

that burst of laughter. ~Ivor Novello
Even a happy life cannot be without a
measure of darkness, and the word

Enjoy your happiness while you have it, and

happy would lose its meaning if it were

while, you have it do not too closely

not balanced by sadness. It is far

scrutinize its foundation. ~Joseph Farrall

better to take things as they come along

with patience and equanimity.
~Carl Jung

Even if happiness forgets you a little bit,

Everybody laughs the same in every

never completely forget about it.

language because laughter is a universal

~Jacques Prevert

connection. ~Yakov Smirnoff

Everything exists in limited quantity;

especially happiness. ~Picasso

Follow your bliss. ~Joseph Campbell

Everything is material for the seed of

happiness, if you look into it with
inquisitiveness and curiosity. The future is
completely open, and we are writing it
moment to moment. There always is the
potential to create an environment of
blame - or one that is conducive to loving
-kindness. ~Pema Chodron

Farms and in castles, in homes, studies,

False happiness renders men stern and

and cloisters - where sensible people

proud, and that happiness is never

manage to live relatively lusty and decent

communicated. True happiness renders

lives, as moral as they must be, as free

them kind and sensible, and that

as they may be, and as masterly as

happiness is always shared.

they can be. If we only knew it, this

~Charles De Montesquieu

elusive arrangement is happiness.

~Erik H. Erikson

Few things in the world are more powerful

than a positive push. A smile. A world of
optimism and hope. A "you can do it" when
things are tough. ~Richard M. DeVos

Focus on the journey, not the destination.

Joy is found not in finishing an activity
but in doing it. ~Greg Anderson

For anyone who works in front of an

audience there is no thrill quite like that of

From quiet homes and first beginning, out

feeling and hearing the evidence of the

to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing

audience members' enjoyment. Laughter

worth the wear of winning, but laughter

and applause really are powerful.

and the love of friends. ~Hilaire Belloc

~Randy West

For every minute you are angry you lose

sixty seconds of happiness.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Frequent and loud laughter is the

From day one, I got addicted to being on

characteristic of folly and ill manners.

stage and getting the applause and

~Lord Chesterfield

laughter. ~Zac Efron

Get up and dance, get up and smile, get up

and drink to the days that are gone in the
shortest while. ~Simon Fowler

From your parents you learn love and

laughter and how to put one foot before
the other. But when books are opened you
discover that you have wings.
~Helen Hayes

From the moment I picked your book up

until I laid it down, I was convulsed with
laughter. Someday I intend reading it.
~Groucho Marx
Go, forget me - why should sorrow, O'er
that brow a shadow fling? Go, forget me
- and tomorrow, brightly smile and
sweetly sing. Smile - though I shall not be
near thee; Sing - though I shall never
hear thee. ~Charles Wolfe

Gratefulness is the key to a happy life

that we hold in our hands, because if we
are not grateful, then no matter how
much we have we will not be happy
because we will always want to have
something else or something more.
~David Steindl-Rast
Give a man health and a course to steer;

Gratitude helps you to grow and expand;

and hell never stop to trouble about

gratitude brings joy and laughter into

whether hes happy or not.

your life and into the lives of all those

~George Bernard Shaw

around you. ~Eileen Caddy

Happiness aint a thing in itself; its only a

contrast with something that aint
pleasant. And so, as soon as the novelty is
over and the force of the contrast dulled,
it aint happiness any longer, and you have
to get something fresh. ~Mark Twain

You traverse the world in search of

happiness, which is within the reach of
every man. A contented mind confers
it on all. ~Horace

Happiness always looks small while you hold

Happiness and virtue rest upon each

it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn

other; the best are not only the happiest,

at once how big and precious it is.

but the happiest are usually the best.

~Maxim Gorky

~Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Happiness adds and multiplies, as we divide

Happiness belongs to the self-sufficient.

it with others. ~A. Nielson

~Aristotle

Happiness comes from spiritual wealth, not

Happiness cannot come from without. It

material wealth Happiness comes from

must come from within. It is not what

giving, not getting. If we try hard to bring

we see and touch or that which others do

happiness to others, we cannot stop it

for us which makes us happy; it is that

from coming to us also. To get joy, we

which we think and feel and do, first for

must give it, and to keep joy, we must

the other fellow and then for ourselves.

scatter it. ~John Templeton

~Helen Keller

Happiness comes from some curious

adjustment to life. ~Sir Hugh Walpole

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel

deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to
risk life, to be needed. ~Storm Jameson

TempletonHappiness cannot be traveled to,

Happiness comes more from loving than

owned, earned, worn or consumed.

being loved; and often when our affection

Happiness is the spiritual experience of living

seems wounded it is only our vanity

every minute with love, grace, and

bleeding. To love, and to be hurt often, and

gratitude.

to love again - this is the brave and

~Denis Waitley

happy life. ~J. E. Buckrose

Happiness comes when we test our skills
towards some meaningful purpose.
~John Stossel

Happiness depends more on how life

strikes you than on what happens.
~Andy Rooney
Happiness comes when your work and

Happiness consists in activity it is a

words are of benefit to yourself and

running stream, not a stagnant pool.

others. ~Buddha

~John L. Mason

Happiness consists more in small

conveniences of pleasures that occur every

Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It

day, than in great pieces of good fortune

cannot burn forever, it must go out, and

that happen but seldom to a man in the

the presentiment of its end destroys it

course of his life.

at its very peak. ~J. August Strindberg

~Benjamin Franklin

Happiness does not come from doing easy

work but from the afterglow of
satisfaction that comes after the
achievement of a difficult task that
demanded our best. ~Theodore I. Rubin

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

~Aristotle

Happiness held is the seed; happiness

Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in

shared is the flower. ~Unknown

the achievement of it.

~Fyodor Dostoevsky

Happiness doesnt come from doing what

Happiness grows at our own firesides,

we like to do but from liking what we have

and is not to be picked in strangers

to do. ~Wilfred A. Peterson

gardens. ~Douglas William Jerrold

Happiness is a by-product of an effort to

Happiness is a ball after which we run

make someone else happy.

wherever it rolls, and we push it with our

~Gretta Brooker Palmer

feet when it stops.

~Johann Wolgang Von Goethe

Happiness in this world, when it comes,

Happiness is a butterfly, which, when

comes incidentally. Make it the object of

pursued, is always just beyond your

pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase,

grasp, but which, if you sit down quietly,

and is never attained.

may alight upon you.

~Nathaniel Hawthorne

~Nathaniel Hawthorne

Happiness is a choice that requires effort

Happiness is a conscious choice, not an

at times. ~Aeschylus

automatic response. ~Mildred Barthel

Happiness is a continuation of happenings,

Happiness is a direction, not a place.

which are not resisted. ~Deepak Chopra

~Sydney J. Harris

Happiness is a by-product. You cannot

pursue it by itself. ~Samuel Levenson

Against the assault of laughter nothing

can stand. ~Mark Twain

Happiness is a function of accepting

Happiness is a habit - cultivate it.

what is. ~Werner Erhard

~Elbert Hubbard

Happiness is a hard thing because it is

achieved only by making others happy.
~Stuart Cloete

Happiness is a how, not a what: a talent,

not an object ~ Hermann Hesse

Happiness is a journey, not a destination;

happiness is to be found along the way not
at the end of the road, for then the
journey is over and its too late. The time
for happiness is today not tomorrow.
~Paul H. Dunn

Happiness is a matter of ones most

ordinary and everyday mode of
consciousness being busy and lively and
unconcerned with self. ~Iris Murdoch
Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on
others without getting a few drops on
yourself. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and

should never be rationalized.
~Gilbert K. Chesterton

Happiness is a perpetual possession of

being well deceived. ~Jonathan Swift

Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like

Happiness is a warm puppy.

the violin. ~John Lubbock

~Charles M. Schultz

Happiness is a sunbeam, which may pass

through a thousand bosoms without
losing a particle of its original ray; nay,
when it strikes on a kindred heart, like
the converged light on a mirror, it
reflects itself with redoubled brightness.
It is not perfected till it is shared.
~Jane Porter
Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage,

Happiness is above all things the calm,

and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

glad certainty of innocence.

~Logan Smith

~Henrik Ibsen

Happiness is activity. ~Aristotle

Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude.

~Joseph W. Krutch

Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of

Happiness is an attitude. We either make

the simple determination to be happy under

ourselves miserable, or happy and strong.

all outward circumstances.

The amount of work is the same.

~J. Donald Walters

~Francesca Reigler

Happiness is an imaginary condition,

Happiness is like those palaces in fairy

formerly often attributed by the living to

the dead, now usually attributed by adults
to children, and by children to adults.
~Thomas Szasz

tales whose gates are guarded by

dragons: we must fight in order to
conquer it. ~Alexandre Dumas

Happiness is like a cat, if you try to coax it

or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come.
But if you pay not attention to it and go
about your business, youll find it rubbing
against your legs and jumping into

In the end it doesn't matter how many

breaths you took, but how many moments
took your breath away. ~Shing Xiong

your lap. ~William John Bennett

Happiness is experienced when your life
gives you what you are willing to accept.
~Ken Keyes Jr.

Happiness is like a kissyou must share it

to enjoy it. ~Bernard Meltzer

Happiness is like manna; it is to be gathered

in grains, and enjoyed every day. It will not
keep; it cannot be accumulated; nor have
we got to go out of ourselves or into
remote places to gather it, since it has
rained down from a Heaven, at our
very door. ~Tryon Edwards

Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor

this thing nor that but simply growth, we
are happy when we are growing.
~William Butler Yeats

Happiness is not a brilliant climax to

years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is
a long succession of little decisions simply
to be happy in the moment.
~J. Donald Walters

Happiness is not a destination. It is a

method of life. ~Burton Hills

Happiness is never stopping to think

if you are. ~Palmer Sondreal

Happiness is not a goal; it is a byproduct. ~Eleanor Roosevelt

Happiness is not a matter of events; it
depends upon the tides of the mind.
~Alice Meynell
Happiness is not a possession to be prized.
It is a quality of thought, a state
of mind. ~Daphne Du Maurier

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but

of imagination. ~Immanuel Kant
Happiness is not a reward - it is a
consequence. Suffering is not a
punishment - it is a result.
~Robert Green Ingersoll

Happiness is not a state to arrive at,

rather, a manner of traveling.
~Samuel Johnson

Happiness is not a station you arrive at,

but a manner of traveling.
~Margaret Lee Runbeck

Happiness is not being pained in body or

Happiness is not best achieved by those

troubled in mind. ~Thomas Jefferson

who seek it directly. ~Bertrand Russell

Happiness is not having what you want,
but wanting what you have.
~Rabbi H. Schachtel

Happiness is not in having being; it is

Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

in doing. ~Lilian Eichler Watson

~Zig Ziglar

Happiness is not in our circumstance but in

ourselves. It is not something we see, like a
rainbow, or feel, like the heat of a fire.
Happiness is something we are.
~John B. Sheerin

Happiness is not in the mere possession

of money; it lies in the joy of achievement,
in the thrill of creative effort.
~Franklin D. Roosevelt

Happiness is not so much in having or

Happiness is something that comes into

sharing. We make a living by what we get,

our lives through doors we dont even

but we make a life by what we give.

remember leaving open.

~Norman Macewan

~Rose Wilder Lane

Happiness is not something ready made. It

Happiness is not something you postpone

comes from your own actions.

for the future; it is something you design

~Dalai Lama

for the present. ~Jim Rohn

Happiness is not the absence of problems,

Happiness is really a deep harmonious

but the ability to deal with them.

inner satisfaction and approval.

~Jack Brown

~Francis Wilshire

Happiness is something final and complete in

itself, as being the aim and end of all
practical activities whatever. Happiness
then we define as the active exercise of
the mind in conformity with perfect
goodness or virtue. ~Aristotle

Happiness is something that you are and it

comes from the way you think.
~Wayne Dyer

Happiness is the absence of the striving

for happiness. ~Chuang Tzu

Happiness is spiritual, born of truth and

love. It is unselfish; therefore it cannot
exist alone, but requires all mankind to
share it. ~Mary Baker Eddy

Happiness is the feeling youre feeling

when you want to keep feeling it.
~Unknown
Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

Happiness is the interval between periods

~Austin OMalley

of unhappiness. ~Don Marquis

Happiness is the light on the water. The

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose

water is cold and dark and deep.

of life, the whole aim and end of human

~William Maxwell

existence. ~Aristotle

Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Happiness is the soundtrack of my life.

~Milan Kundera

~Grey Livingston

Happiness is the only good. The time to be

Happiness is the only sanction of life;

happy is now. The place to be happy is here.

where happiness fails, existence remains

The way to be happy is to make others so.

a mad and lamentable experiment.

~Robert Green Ingersoll

~George Santayana
Happiness is understanding that

Happiness is the resultant of the relative

strengths of positive and negative feelings
rather than an absolute amount of one or
the other. ~Norman Bradburn

friendship is more precious than mere

things, more precious than getting your
own way, more precious than being in
situations where true principles are
not at stake.
~J. Donald Walters

Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

Happiness lies first of all in health.

~Socrates

~George William Curtis

Happiness is when what you think, what you

Happiness isnt something you experience;

say, and what you do are in harmony.

its something you remember.

~Mahatma Gandhi

~Oscar Levant

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and

the thrill of creative effort. ~Theodore
Roosevelt
Happiness must be cultivated. It is like
character. It is not a thing to be safely
let alone for a moment, or it will run to
weeds. ~Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
Happiness makes up in height for what it
lacks in length. ~Robert Frost

Happiness often sneaks in through a door

you didnt know you left open.
~John Barrymore

Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue;

but in the manner we appreciate the one

Happiness radiates like the fragrance

and the other, and the choice we make

from a flower, and draws all good things

pursuant to our individual organization.

toward you. ~Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

~Marquis De Sade

Happiness was not made to be boasted,

but enjoyed. Therefore though others
count me miserable, I will not believe them
if I know and feel myself to be happy;
nor fear them. ~Thomas Traherne
Happiness, that grand mistress of the
ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us
through all its mazes and meandering,
but leads none of us by the same route.
~Charles Caleb Colton
Happiness requires problems.

Happiness seems made to be shared.

~H. L. Hollingworth

~Pierre Cornelius

Happiness resides not in possessions, and

Happiness serves hardly any other

not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

purpose than to make unhappiness

~Democritus

possible. ~Marcel Proust

Happiness will never come to those who fail

Happy were men if they but understood

to appreciate what they already have.

there is no safety but in doing good.

~Unknown

~John Fountain

Happiness is not a destination: it is a

manner of traveling. Happiness is not an
end in itself. It is a by-product of working,
playing, loving and living. ~Haim Ginott

Happy the man whose wish and care a few

paternal acres bound, content to breathe
his native air in his own ground.
~Alexander Pope
Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is

Have only one smile in you. Give it to the

the mind that lives. ~William Cobbett

people you love. ~Maya Angelou

He is happiest, be he king or peasant,

He is rich or poor according to what he is,

who finds peace in his home.

not according to what he has.

~Johann Wolgang Von Goethe

~Henry Ward Beecher

He was born with a gift of laughter and a

sense that the world was mad.
~Rafael Sabatini

He who has laughter on his side has no

need of proof. ~Theodor Adorno

Health is not just the absence of a

Here we are the way politics ought to be

disease. Its an inner joyfulness that

in America; the politics of happiness, the

should be ours all the time; a state of

politics of purpose and the politics of joy.

positive well-being. ~Deepak Chopra

~Hubert H. Humphrey

He who has no wish to be happier is the

happiest of men. ~W.R. Alger
Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt
only gives you tense muscles, a headache
and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth.
Forgiveness gives you back the laughter
and the lightness in your life.
~Joan Lunden

Hearty laughter is a good way to jog

internally without having to go outdoors.
~Norman Cousins
Honest good humor is the oil and wine of a
merry meeting, and there is no jovial
companionship equal to that where the
jokes are rather small and laughter
abundant. ~Washington Irving

How we feel about ourselves, the joy we

get from living, ultimately depends directly
on how the mind filters and interprets
everyday experiences. Whether we are
happy depends on inner harmony, not on
the controls we are able to exert over
the great forces of the universe.
~Mihaly Csikszentmihaly
How to gain, how to keep, how to recover
happiness is in fact for most men at all
times the secret motive of all they do, and
of all they are willing to endure.
~William James

Humour is the weapon of unarmed people:

it helps people who are oppressed to smile
at the situation that pains them.
~Simon Wiesenthal

Holiness, not happiness, is the chief

end of man. ~Oswald Chambers

Human happiness and moral duty are

inseparably connected.
~George Washington

I always knew looking back on my tears

would bring me laughter, but I never knew
looking back on my laughter would make
me cry. ~Cat Stevens

I believe that every human mind feels

pleasure in doing good to another.
~Thomas Jefferson
I am more and more convinced that our
happiness or our unhappiness depends far
more on the way we meet the events of life
than on the nature of those events
themselves. ~Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt

I believe in things that move people, if the

audience isn't deeply caught up and moved
to either laughter or tears then I don't
think it is theater. ~Estelle Parsons
I am thankful for laughter, except when
milk comes out of my nose. ~Woody Allen

I believe that imagination is stronger

than knowledge. That myth is more potent
than history. That dreams are more
powerful than facts. That hope always
triumphs over experience. That laughter is
the only cure for grief. And I believe that
love is stronger than death.
~Robert Fulghum

I believe that love and laughter can only

I believe that laughter is a language of

happen when one person takes the time

God and that we can all live happily ever

to think about what would cause the

laughter. ~Yakov Smirnoff

other person to feel good.

~Yakov Smirnoff

I believe there is a direct correlation

I believe there is a direct correlation

between love and laughter.

between love and laughter.

~Yakov Smirnoff

~Yakov Smirnoff

I can only think of one thing greater than

being happy and that is to help another to
be happy, too. ~Jim Thomson

I care less about the gross national

product and more about the gross national
happiness. ~King of Bhutan

I define joy as a sustained sense of wellbeing and internal peace ~a connection to

what matters. ~Oprah Winfrey

I do it for the joy it brings, cause I'm a

joyful girl. 'Cause the world owes us
nothing, we owe each other the world.
~Ani Difranco
I don't know what I would have done

I dont know what your destiny will be, but

without believing in God. His support gives

one thing I do know: the only ones among

me power and energy to continue to be

you who will be really happy are those who

optimistic, to smile, not to be depressed.

have sought and found how to serve.

Sometimes, if things are not going so well,

~Albert Schweitzer

I don't cry. I say maybe it's meant to

be. ~Ofra Haza

I have learned to seek my happiness by

limiting my desires, rather than in

I just love listening to the laughter.

attempting to satisfy them.

~Simon Pegg

~John Stuart Mill

I don't know why people are so surprised

by my live performances. My approach is
so simple; every song I sing, every story
I tell, every move I make, must move the
audience to laughter, tears or inspiration.
Otherwise, why should I do it?
~John Davidson
I have found that a smile and a stick will
carry you through all right, and in ninetynine cases out of a hundred it is the smile
that does the trick. ~Robert Powell
I feel now it's useless to keep hoping. The

I figured out, I guess, that the job just

way things are today, we live in a world

makes me happy if it's not number one. So

that needs laughter, and I've decided if I

if it all works, great. If it doesn't, I still

can make people laugh, I'm making a more

go home, look at my kids, and I have a big

important contribution. ~Paul Lynde

smile on my face. ~Thomas Kretschmann

I have always felt that laughter in the

I hope you will go out and let stories

face of reality is probably the finest sound

happen to you, and that you will work

there is and will last until the day when the

them, water them with your blood and

game is called on account of darkness. In

tears and you laughter till they bloom, till

this world, a good time to laugh is any time

you yourself burst into bloom. ~Clarissa

you can. ~Linda Ellerbee

Pinkola Estes
I just got one last thing, I urge all of

I have witnessed the softening of the

hardest of hearts by a simple smile.
~Goldie Hawn

you, all of you, to enjoy your life, the

precious moments you have. To spend
each day with some laughter and some
thought, to get you're emotions going.
~Jim Valvano
I look on that man as happy, who, when

I like outgoing girls with a lovely smile and

there is question of success, looks into

beautiful eyes. ~Corbin Bleu

his work for a reply.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

I just sing the stuff that makes me smile,

makes me feel like I didn't sell myself out.
~Patti LaBelle
I left in love, in laughter, and in truth, and
wherever truth, love and laughter abide, I
am there in spirit. ~Bill Hicks
I love a girl that can make me laugh. I am
not really a laugh-at-things type of guy
and I don't smile and laugh all the time...
But if a girl can make me laugh... I'm
in love!!!! ~Jesse McCartney

I learned very early that an audience

would relax and look at things differently
if they felt they could laugh with you
from time to time. There's an energy
that comes through the release of
tension that is laughter. ~Twyla Tharp
I left in love, in laughter, and in truth,
and wherever truth, love and laughter
abide, I am there in spirit. ~Bill Hicks

I like to smile when its natural. I'm not

mad or anything. That's my style.
~Jesse McCartney

I love a good laugh as well, I think that's

so important in life, which is probably why
I've dabbled in comedy writing as well as
horror. I think if you can make someone
laugh or smile it's the most special thing in
the world. ~Paul Kane

I love the live performances and Las

Vegas. I also like making films that are
being discovered by another generation.
Having been a teen idol of the '60s is
great because you realize you left your
generation with a smile and good
memories. ~Connie Stevens

I love life in spite of all that mars it. I love

I never get tired of smiling. I'm just the

friendship, jokes and laughter.

kind of guy who likes to smile.

~Tahar Ben Jelloun

~Jason Ritter

I love the man that can smile in trouble,

that can gather strength from distress,
and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the
business of little minds to shrink, but he
whose heart is firm, and whose conscience
approves his conduct, will pursue his
principles unto death. ~Thomas Paine

I love those who can smile in trouble, who

can gather strength from distress, and
grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business
of little minds to shrink, but they whose
heart is firm, and whose conscience
approves their conduct, will pursue their
principles unto death. ~Leonardo da Vinci

I love to smile. ~Inge de Bruijn

I made a circle with a smile for a mouth on
yellow paper, because it was sunshiny
and bright. ~Harvey Ball

I never smile unless I mean it.

~Donny Osmond
I want to touch the heart of the world
and make it smile. ~Charles de Lint

I think laughter may be a form of

courage. As humans we sometimes stand

I think that's one of the most important

tall and look into the sun and laugh, and I

gifts we have in television - the ability to

think we are never more brave than when

heal through laughter. ~Soleil Moon Frye

we do that. ~Linda Ellerbee

If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a
goal, not to people or things.
~Albert Einstein

If you want to be happy, set a goal that

commands your thoughts, liberates your
energy, and inspires your hopes.
~Andrew Carnegie

I think there is a serious corruption in

the idea sold through advertising that
you can attain spiritual peace through
lifestyle and the notion of building your
happiness from the outside-in by
acquiring things . . . which if you think
about it, is the essence of advertising.
~Edward Norton
I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter,
the sound of which has always seemed to
me the most civilised music in the world.
~Peter Ustinov
I try to bring the audience's own drama -

If I have caused just one person to

tears and laughter they know about - to

wipe away a tear of laughter, that's my

them. ~Judy Garland

reward. ~Victor Borge

Im fulfilled in what I do I never thought

that a lot of money or fine clothes - the
finer things of life - would make you happy.
My concept of happiness is to be filled in a
spiritual sense.
~Coretta Scott King
If happiness is activity in accordance with
excellence, it is reasonable that it should be
in accordance with the highest excellence.
~Aristotle
If love is the treasure, laughter is
the key. ~Yakov Smirnoff

If you want to be happy, be. ~Leo Tolstoy

If only wed stop trying to be happy we

could have a pretty good time.
~Edith Wharton
In every person is a hidden child who
wants to play. ~Dr. Harvey Ruben

If the day and night be such that you

If one only wished to be happy, this could be

greet them with joy, and life emits a

easily accomplished; but we wish to be

fragrance like flowers and sweet-

happier than other people, and this is

scented herbs, is more elastic, more

always difficult, for we believe others to be

immortal - that is your success. All

happier than they are.

nature is your congratulation, and you

~Charles De Montesquieu

have cause momentarily to bless yourself.

~Henry David Thoreau

If there were in the world today any large

number of people who desired their own
happiness more than they desired the
unhappiness of others, we could have
paradise in a few years.

If thou wilt make a man happy, add not

unto his riches but take away from
his desires. ~Epicurus

~Bertrand Russell

If we cannot live so as to be happy, let

us so live as to deserve happiness.
~Johann G. Fichte

If you cant be happy where you are, its

a cinch you cant be happy where
you aint. ~Charles Jones
If you observe a really happy man you
If you cannot renounce the world the

will find him building a boat, writing a

genius of happiness will never salute you.

symphony, educating his son, growing

~Prutz

Double Dahlias in his garden.

~W. Beran Wolfe

If you smile when no one else is around, you

really mean it. ~Andy Rooney

If you want others to be happy, practice

compassion. If you want to be happy,
practice compassion. ~Dalai Lama

If you were happy every day of your life

you wouldnt be a human being, youd be a
game show host. ~Gabriel Heatter

If you're going to be able to look back on

something and laugh about it, you might as
well laugh about it now. ~Marie Osmond

I'm as happy a man as any in the world,

for the whole world seems to smile
upon me! ~Samuel Smiles

I'm happy that I have brought laughter

because I have been shown by many the
value of it in so many lives, in so
many ways. ~Lucille Ball

I'm really only happy when I'm on stage. I

In masks outrageous and austere, the

just feed off the energy of the audience.

years go by in single file; but none has

That's what I'm all about - people and

merited my fear, and none has quite

laughter. ~Larry David

escaped my smile. ~Elinor Wylie

In order to have great happiness, you

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears

half its applause. ~George Eliot

have to have great pain and

unhappiness-otherwise how would you
know when youre happy? ~Leslie Caron

In the pursuit of happiness, the difficulty

lies in knowing when you have caught up.
~R. H. Grenville
Incongruity is the mainspring of
laughter. ~Max Beerbohm
In the sweetness of friendship let there be
laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in
the dew of little things the heart finds its
morning and is refreshed.
~Khalil Gibran

In theory there is a possibility of perfect

happiness: To believe in the indestructible
element within one, and not to strive
towards it. ~Frank Kafka

Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when

he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
~St. Augustine

It is a sad thing to look at happiness only

through anothers eyes.
~Marguerite Blessington

It is better to write of laughter than of

tears, for laughter is the property
of man. ~Francois Rabelais

It is impossible for you to be angry and

laugh at the same time. Anger and
laughter are mutually exclusive and you
have the power to choose either.
~Wayne Dyer
It is impossible to live a pleasant life
without living wisely and well and justly. And
it is impossible to live wisely and well and
justly without living a pleasant life.
~Epicurus

It is in the compelling zest of high

adventure and of victory, and in creative
action, that man finds his supreme joys.
~Antoine De Saint-Exupery

It is necessary to the happiness of man

It is neither wealth nor splendor, but

that he be mentally faithful to himself.

tranquility and occupation, which give

~Thomas Paine

happiness. ~Thomas Jefferson

It is not easy to find happiness in

It is not Gods will merely that we should

ourselves, and it is not possible to find it

be happy, but that we should make

elsewhere. ~Agnes Repplier

ourselves happy. ~Immanuel Kant

It seems that laughter needs an echo.

It was not a laugh but merely a

~Henri Bergson

loud smile. ~Unknown

It is not how much we have, but how

much we enjoy that makes happiness.
~Charles Haddon Spurgeon

It is not in the pursuit of happiness that

we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness
of pursuit. ~Denis Waitley

It is not the place, nor the condition, but

It is not time for mirth and laughter, the

the mind alone that can make anyone

cold, gray dawn of the morning after.

happy or miserable. ~Sir Roger LEstrange

~George Ade
It is okay to feel more Joy than the

It is of immense importance to learn to

people around you. It is one of the

laugh at ourselves. ~Katherine Mansfield

greatest gifts we can give. They need

our Joy, not our sadness. ~Unknown

It is the chief point of happiness that a

It is wrong to assume that men of

man is willing to be what he is.

immense wealth are always happy.

~Desiderius Erasmus

~John D. Rockefeller

It isnt what you have, or who you are, or

It seldom happens that any felicity

where you are, or what you are doing that

comes so pure as not to be tempered and

makes you happy or unhappy. It is what

allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

you think about. ~Dale Carnegie

~Miguel De Cervantes

Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Joy is the feeling of grinning inside.

~Richard Wagner

~Melba Colgrove

Joy descends gently upon us like the evening

dew, and does not patter down like a
hailstorm. ~Jean Paul Richter

Joy is increased by spreading it to

others. ~Robert Murray McCheyne

It is still not clear from this study how

laughter can directly help the heart but
other studies have shown that laughter is
beneficial for every system in the body.
~Allen Klein

It is the paradox of life that the way to

miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very
first condition of lasting happiness is that
a life should be full of purpose, aiming at
something outside self. ~Hugo Black

Its good to be just plain happy. Its a

little better to know that youre happy;
Its never too late to have a happy
childhood. ~Wayne Dyer

but to understand that youre happy and

to know why and how and still be happy be happy in the being and the knowing well, that is beyond happiness, that
is bliss. ~Henry Miller
I've always thought that a big laugh is a
really loud noise from the soul saying,
"Ain't that the truth. ~Quincy Jones
Joy comes from using your potential.
~Will Schultz

I've never missed a gig yet. Music makes

Jackie Gleason said that comedy is the

people happy, and that's why I go on doing

most exacting form of dramatic art,

it - I like to see everybody smile.

because it has an instant critic:

~Buddy Guy

laughter. ~Chuck Jones

Joy is not the absence of suffering. It is

Joy is the echo of Gods life in us.

the presence of God. ~Robert Schuller

~Abbot Coumba Marmion

Joy has nothing to do with material things,

Joy is the state of the human soul who

or with mans outward circumstance A

is not identified with the personality.

man living in the lap of luxury can be

Happiness is a state of the soul who is

wretched, and a man in the depths of

identified with the personality and enjoys

poverty can overflow with joy.

the life in the personality.

~William Barclay

~Torkom Saraydarian

Joy is what happens when we allow

Knowledge of what is possible is the

ourselves to recognize how good things are.

beginning of happiness.

Joy is not necessarily what happens when

~George Santayana

things unfold according to our plans.

~Marianne Williamson
Just as a cautious businessman avoids
investing all his capital in one concern, so
wisdom would probably admonish us also
not to anticipate all our happiness from
one quarter alone. ~Sigmund Freud

Know then this truth, enough for man to

know virtue alone is happiness below.
~Alexander Pope

Joy's smile is much closer to tears than

laughter. ~Victor Hugo
Laughter and grief join hands. Always the
heart Clumps in the breast with heavy
stride; The face grows lined and wrinkled
like a chart, The eyes bloodshot with tears
and tide. Let the wind blow, for many a
man shall die. ~Karl Shapiro

Laughter is the closest distance between

two people. ~Victor Borge
Laughter and tears are both responses
to frustration and exhaustion. I myself
prefer to laugh, since there is less
cleaning up to do afterward.
~Kurt Vonnegut

Laughter can bring a new perspective.

Laughter drives shouting away.

~Christopher Durang

~Indra Devi

Laughter can help relieve tension in even the

Laughter is a tranquilizer with no

heaviest of matters. ~Allen Klein

side effects. ~Arnold H. Glasow

Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to

step back from an event, deal with it and
then move on. ~Bob Newhart

Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a

smile is the twilight that hovers gently
between both, more bewitching than
either. ~Henry Ward Beecher
Laughter is America's most
important export. ~Walt Disney

Laughter is an instant vacation.

~Milton Berle

Laughter is inner jogging.

~Norman Cousins

Laughter is much more important than

Laughter is not a bad beginning for a

applause. Applause is almost a duty.

friendship, and it is the best ending

Laughter is a reward. ~Carol Channing

for one. ~Henry Ward Beecher

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for

Laughter is one of the very privileges of

a friendship, and it is far the best ending

reason, being confined to the human

for one. ~Oscar Wilde

species. ~Thomas Carlyle

Laughter is the valve on the pressure

Laughter kills fear, and without fear

cooker of life. Either you laugh and suffer,

there can be no faith. For without fear

or you got your beans or brains on the

of the devil there is no need for God.

ceiling. ~Wavy Gravy

~Sean Connery

Laughter is nothing else but sudden glory

arising from some sudden conception of
some eminency in ourselves, by comparison
with the infirmity of others, or with our
own formerly. ~Thomas Hobbes

Laughter is the best medicine - unless

Laughter is the corrective force which

you're diabetic, then insulin comes pretty

prevents us from becoming cranks.

high on the list. ~Jasper Carrott

~Henri Bergson

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace

of God. ~Karl Barth

Laughter is the brush that sweeps away

the cobwebs of your heart.
~Mort Walker

Laughter is the sensation of feeling good

Laughter is, after speech, the chief thing

all over and showing it principally in one

that holds society together.

place. ~Josh Billings

~Max Eastman

Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness

far behind; and indeed cannot endure it.
Happiness is not the object of life: life
has no object: it is an end in itself; and
courage consists in the readiness to
sacrifice happiness for an intenser
quality of life. ~George Bernard Shaw

Laughter is the shortest distance between

Laughter is the sun that drives winter

two people. ~Yakov Smirnoff

from the human face. ~Victor Hugo

Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the

surcease for pain. ~Charlie Chaplin

Laughter need not be cut out of

anything, since it improves everything.
~James Thurber

Laughter on one's lips is a sign that the

person down deep has a pretty good grasp
of life. ~Hugh Sidey
Laughter relieves us of superfluous
energy, which, if it remained unused, might
become negative, that is, poison. Laughter
is the antidote. ~George Gurdjieff

Laughter springs from the lawless part

of our nature. ~Agnes Repplier
Laughter, and the broader category of
humor, are key elements in helping us go
on with our life after a loss. ~Allen Klein

Laughter would be bereaved if snobbery

Learn to let go. That is the key to

died. ~Peter Ustinov

happiness. ~Buddha

Lead the life that will make you kindly and

Let us be grateful to people who make us

friendly to everyone about you, and you will

happy; they are the charming gardeners

be surprised what a happy life you will lead.

who make our souls blossom.

~Charles M. Schaub

~Marcel Proust

Learning to live in the present moment is

part of the path of joy.
~Sarah Ban Breathnach
Let there be more joy and laughter in your
living. ~Eileen Caddy

No one is in control of your happiness but

Live by this credo: have a little laugh at

you; therefore, you have the power to

life and look around you for happiness

change anything about yourself or your life

instead of sadness. Laughter has

that you want to change.

always brought me out of unhappy

~Barbara De Angelis

situations. ~Red Skelton

Life is to be fortified by many friendships.

Like all young men I set out to be a

To love and be loved is the greatest

genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.

happiness of existence. ~Sydney Smit

~Lawrence Durrell

Love is when the other person's happiness

Make happy those who are near, and

is more important than your own.

those who are far will come.

~H. Jackson Brown

~Chinese Proverb

Like swimming, riding, writing, or playing

golf, happiness can be learned.
~Boris Sokoloff
Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color
in your cheek and the fire in your eye,
adorn your person, maintain your health,
your beauty and your animal spirits.
~William Hazlitt
Make them laugh, make them cry, and hack

Man is fond of counting his troubles, but

to laughter. What do people go to the

he does not count his joys. If he counted

theatre for? An emotional exercise. I am

them up as he ought to, he would see

a servant of the people. I have never

that every lot has enough happiness

forgotten that. ~Mary Pickford

provided for it. ~Fyodor Dostoevsky

Man must search for what is right, and let

Many search for happiness as we look

happiness come on its own.

for a hat we wear on our heads.

~Johann Pestalozzi

~Nikolaus Lenus

love, prosperity, happiness... all the good

things. Consult not your fears but your
hopes and your dreams. Think not about
your frustrations, but about your
unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not
with what you tried and failed in, but with
what it is still possible for you to do.
~Pope John XXIII
Man needs, for his happiness, not only the

Man needs, for his happiness, not only the

enjoyment of this or that, but hope and

enjoyment of this or that, but hope and

enterprise and change. ~Bertrand Russell

enterprise and change. ~Bertrand Russell

Many people have the wrong idea of what

constitutes true happiness. It is not
attained through self-gratification, but
through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
~Helen Keller

Maturity is a bitter disappointment for

which no remedy exists, unless laughter
could be said to remedy anything.
~Kurt Vonnegut

Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Man, when you lose your laugh you lose

~Henry David Thoreau

your footing. ~Ken Kesey

Men can only be happy when they do not

Most of the shadows of this life are

assume that the object of life is happiness

caused by standing in one's own sunshine.

~George Orwell

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Mirth is God's medicine. Everybody ought to

bathe in it. ~Henry Ward Beecher

Most folks are about as happy as they

make up their minds to be.
~Abraham Lincoln

Many people think that if they were only in

Most of us experience happiness when we

some other place, or had some other job,

are enjoying life and feeling free,

they would be happy. Well, that is doubtful.

enjoying the process and products of our

So get as much happiness out of what you

creative and intellectual processes,

are doing as you can and dont put off

enjoying the ecstasy of transcendent

being happy until some future date.

oneness with the universe.

~Dale Carnegie

~James Muriel
Most people ask for happiness on
condition. Happiness can only be felt if you
dont set any condition.
~Arthur Rubinstein
My advice to you is not to inquire why or
whither, but just enjoy your ice cream
while its on your plate. ~Thornton Wilder
My life has no purpose, no direction, no
aim, no meaning, and yet Im happy. I
cant figure it out. What am I doing
right? ~Charles M. Schultz

Most smiles are started by another smile.

My happiness derives from knowing the

~Frank Howard Clark

people I love are happy. ~Holly Ketchel

My happiness is not the means to my end.

It is the end. ~Ayn Rand

No burden is so heavy for a man to bear

as a succession of happy days.
~Max Muller

No man should desire to be happy who is

not at the same time holy. He should spend
his efforts in seeking to know and do the
will of God, leaving to Christ the matter of
how happy he should be. ~A. W. Tozer
No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Nobody ever died of laughter. ~Max

~Solon

Beerbohm

No man who has once heartily and wholly

Now and then its good to pause in our

laughed can be altogether irreclaimably

pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

bad. ~Thomas Carlyle

~Guilaume Apollinaire

Life is made up of small pleasures.

No one is so completely disenchanted with

Happiness is made up of those tiny

the world, or knows it so thoroughly, or is

successes. The big ones come too

so utterly disgusted with it, that when it

infrequently. And if you dont collect all

begins to smile upon him he does not

these tiny successes, the big ones dont

become partially reconciled to it.

really mean anything. ~Norman Lear

~Giacomo Leopardi

Nobody needs a smile so much as the one

who has none to give. So get used to
smiling heart-warming smiles, and you will
spread sunshine in a sometimes dreary
world. ~Lawrence G. Lovasik

No one needs a smile as much as a person

No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet

who fails to give one. ~Unknown

very miserable. ~Letitia Landon

Nothing can bring you happiness but

yourself. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing you wear is more important than
your smile. ~Connie Stevens

Nothing can confound a wise man more

than laughter from a dunce.
~George Byron
Now and then it is good to pause in our
pursuit of Joy and just be Joyful.
~Unknown

Now, a recent study from cardiologists at

Objects we ardently pursue bring little

the University of Maryland, has shown

happiness when gained; most of our

that laughter may have a beneficial effect

pleasures come from unexpected sources.

on the heart. ~Allen Klein

~Herbert Spencer

Now if the harvest is over, And the world

Old hippies don't die, they just lie low until

cold, Give me the bonus of laughter, As I

the laughter stops and their time comes

lose hold. ~John Betjeman

round again. ~Joseph Gallivan

On the whole, the happiest people seem to be

Once you have heard a strange audience

those who have no particular cause for

burst into laughter at a film you

being happy except that they are so.

directed, you realize what the word joy is

~Albert Camus

all about. ~Chuck Jones

One can never speak enough of the virtues,

the dangers, the power of shared laughter.
-Francoise Sagan

One feels inclined to say that the

intention that man should be happy is not
included in the plan of Creation.
~Sigmund Freud

Often people attempt to live their lives

backwards; they try to have more things,
or more money, in order to do more of what
they want, so they will be happier. The way
it actually works is the reverse. You must
first be who you really are, then do what
you need to do, in order to have what you
want. ~Margaret Young

One filled with joy preaches without

preaching. ~Mother Teresa
One of the indictments of civilizations is
that happiness and intelligence are so
rarely found in the same person. ~William
Feather

One joy scatters a hundred griefs.

~Chinese Proverb

One should take good care not to grow

too wise for so great a pleasure of life
as laughter. ~Joseph Addison

Only one thing has to change for us to

know happiness in our lives: where we
focus our attention. ~Greg Anderson

Our laughter is always the laughter of a

group. ~Henri Bergson

Our greatest happiness does not depend on

Our happiness depends on the habit of

the condition of life in which chance has

mind we cultivate. So practice happy

placed us, but is always the result of a

thinking every day. Cultivate the merry

good conscience, good health, occupation,

heart, develop the happiness habit, and

and freedom in all just pursuits.

life will become a continual feast.

~Thomas Jefferson

~Norman Vincent Peale

Optimism is the faith that leads to

Our happiness is greatest when we

achievement. Nothing can be done without

contribute most to the happiness of

hope and confidence. ~Helen Keller

others. ~Harriet Shepard

Our happiness in this world depends on the

affections we are able to inspire.
~Ducess Prazlin

People dont notice whether its summer or

winter when theyre happy. ~Anton Chekhov

Our revenge will be the laughter of our

children. ~Bobby Sands
Remember that happiness is as contagious
as gloom. It should be the first duty of
those who are happy to let others know of
their gladness. ~Maurice Maeterlinck

People need your love the most when they

appear to deserve it the least.
~John Harrigan
People who never achieve happiness are
the ones who complain whenever theyre
awake, and whenever theyre asleep, they
are thinking about what to complain
about tomorrow. ~Adam Zimbler

People take different roads seeking

Perhaps I know best why it is man alone

fulfillment and happiness. Just because

who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply

they are not on your road does not mean

that he had to invent laughter.

they have gotten lost. ~H. Jackson Browne

~Friedrich Nietzsche

Pleasure is very seldom found where it is

Plenty of people miss their share of

sought. Our brightest blazes are commonly

happiness, not because they never found

kindled by unexpected sparks. ~Samuel

it, but because they didnt stop to

Johnson

enjoy it. ~William Feather

Point me out the happy man and I will point

you out either egotism, selfishness, evil - or
else an absolute ignorance.
~Graham Greene
Peace begins with a smile. ~Mother Teresa

Release the joy that is inside of another,

and you release the joy that is inside
of you. ~Neal Donald Walch
Remember that happiness is a way of
travel, not a destination. ~Roy Goodman
People spend a lifetime searching for
happiness; looking for peace. They chase
idle dreams, addictions, religions, even
other people, hoping to fill the emptiness
that plagues them. The irony is the only
place they ever needed to search was
within. ~Ramona L. Anderson
Remember to light the candle of joy daily
and all the gloom will disappear from
your life. ~Djwhal Khul

Remember even though the outside world

Remember, happiness doesnt depend upon

might be raining, if you keep on smiling the

who you are or what you have, it depends

sun will soon show its face and smile back

solely upon what you think.

at you. ~Anna Lee

~Dale Carnegie

Remember, men need laughter sometimes

more than food. ~Anna Fellows Johnston

Scarcely one person in a thousand is

capable of tasting the happiness
of others. ~Henry Fielding

Remember me with smiles and laughter, for

that is how I will remember you all. If you
can only remember me with tears, then
don't remember me at all.
~Laura Ingalls Wilder
Remember that very little is needed to make
a happy life. ~Marcus Aurelius

Sanity and happiness are an impossible

combination. ~Mark Twain

Seeing unhappiness in the marriage of

friends, I was content to have chosen
music and laughter as a substitute for a
husband. ~Elsa Maxwell

Sensitive, responsive, eagerly welcomed

everywhere, the drama, holding the mirror
up to nature, by laughter and by tears
reveals to mankind the world of men.
~George P. Baker
Shall I give you my recipe for happiness?
I find everything useful and nothing
indispensable. I find everything wonderful
and nothing miraculous. I reverence the
body. I avoid first causes like the plague.
~Norman Douglas

Seek not happiness too greedily, and be

not fearful of unhappiness. ~Lao-Tzu

Seven days without laughter makes one

weak. ~Mort Walker
Shared laughter is erotic too.

Smile at a stranger. See what happens.

~Marge Piercy

~Patti LuPone

She knew what all smart women knew:

Laughter made you live better and longer.
~Gail Parent
Smile, for everyone lacks self-confidence
and more than any other one thing a smile
reassures them. ~Andre Maurois
Sir, that all who are happy, are equally
happy, is not true. A peasant and a
philosopher may be equally satisfied, but
not equally happy. Happiness consists in the
multiplicity of agreeable consciousness.
~Samuel Johnson

Simply put, you believe that things or

people make you unhappy, but this is not
accurate. You make yourself unhappy.
~Wayne Dyer
So many tangles in life are ultimately
hopeless that we have no appropriate
sword other than laughter.
~Gordon W. Allport
Sometimes the laughter in mothering is
the recognition of the ironies and
absurdities. Sometimes, though, it's just
pure, unthinking delight.
~Barbara Schapiro

Smiling is very important. If we are not

able to smile, then the world will not have
peace. It is not by going out for a
demonstration against nuclear missiles
that we can bring about peace. It is with
our capacity of smiling, breathing, and
being peace that we can make peace.
~Nhat Hanh
Smile, it is the key that fits the lock of

Some cause happiness wherever they go;

everybody's heart. ~Anthony J. D'Angelo

others whenever they go. ~Oscar Wilde

Smile, it's better than a poke in the eye.

~Douglas Horton

Smile, it's free therapy. ~Douglas Horton

Success is getting what you want,

Sudden glory is the passion which maketh

happiness is wanting what you get.

those grimaces called laughter.

~Dave Gardner

~Thomas Hobbes

Talk happiness. The world is sad enough

without your woe. ~Orison Swett Marden

That is happiness; to be dissolved into

something completely great.
~Willa Cather

So much sadness exists in the world that

we are all under obligation to contribute
as much joy as lies within our powers.
~John Southerland Bonnell
Some of us might find happiness if we
quit struggling so desperately for it.
~William Feather

Sometimes your joy is the source of your

smile, but sometimes your smile can be
the source of your joy.
~Thich Nhat Hanh

Some pursue happiness, others create it.

Start every day off with a smile and get

~Unknown

it over with. ~W. C. Fields

Success is getting and achieving what you

Success is not the key to happiness.

want. Happiness is wanting and being

Happiness is the key to success. If you

content with what you get.

love what you are doing, you will be

~Bernard Meltzer

successful. ~Albert Schweitzer

Such happiness as life is capable of comes

from the full participation of all our powers
in the endeavor to wrest from each
changing situations of experience its own
full and unique meaning. ~John Dewey

Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

~E. V. Lucas

That man is richest whose pleasures are

cheapest. ~Henry David Thoreau

The best way for a person to have happy

thoughts is to count his blessings and not
his cash. ~Unknown

Tears are sometimes an inappropriate

response to death. When a life has been
lived completely honestly, completely
successfully, or just completely, the
correct response to death's perfect
punctuation mark is a smile. ~Julie Burchill
Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with
laughter. Love with heart. 'Cause that's all
that matters in the end.
~Kris Kristofferson

That which you create in beauty and

goodness and truth lives on for all time to
come. Dont spend your life accumulating
material objects that will only turn to
dust and ashes. ~Denis Waitley
The amount of happiness that you have
depends on the amount of freedom you
have in your heart. ~Thich Nhat Hanh

The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the

The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the

soundless mirth, so important to the

soundless mirth, so important to the

success of comedy, cannot be understood

success of comedy, cannot be understood

unless one sits among the audience and

unless one sits among the audience and

feels the warmth created by the quality of

feels the warmth created by the quality

laughter that the audience takes home

of laughter that the audience takes

with it. ~James Thurber

home with it. ~James Thurber

The art of living does not consist in

preserving and clinging to a particular
mode of happiness, but in allowing
happiness to change its form without
being disappointed by the change;
happiness, like a child, must be allowed to
grow up. ~Charles L. Morgan

The beauty of the world, which is so soon

The best advice on the art of being happy

to perish, has two edges, one of laughter,

is about as easy to follow as advice to

one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.

be well when one is sick.

~Virginia Woolf

~Anne Sophie Swetchine

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try

to cheer somebody else up. ~Mark Twain

The catch phrase for the day is 'Do an

act of kindness. Help one person smile.'
~Harvey Ball

The basic thing is that everyone wants

happiness, no one wants suffering. And
happiness mainly comes from our own
attitude, rather than from external
factors. If your own mental attitude is
correct, even if you remain in a hostile
atmosphere, you feel happy. ~Dalai Lama

The best way to secure future happiness

is to be as happy as is rightfully possible
today. ~Charles W. Eliot

The company of fools may first make us

The creed of a true saint is to make the

smile, but in the end we always feel

best of life, and to make the most of it.

melancholy. ~Oliver Goldsmith

~Edwin Hubbel Chapin

The best years of your life are the ones
in which you decide your problems are
your own. You do not blame them on your
mother, the ecology, or the president. You
realize that you control your own destiny.
~Albert Ellis
The Constitution only guarantees the
American people the right to pursue
happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
~Benjamin Franklin

The essence of philosophy is that a man

The fact is always obvious much too late,

should so live that his happiness shall depend

but the most singular difference between

as little as possible on external things.

happiness and joy is that happiness is a

~Epictetus

solid and joy a liquid. ~J. D. Salinger

The greatest joy of life is to love and

The house of laughter makes a house

be loved. ~R. D. Clyde

of woe. ~Edward Young

The glow of satisfaction which follows the

The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy

consciousness of doing our level best never

life. I do not mean that if you are good

comes to a human being from any other

you will be happy; I mean that if you are

experience. ~Orison Swett Marden

happy you will be good. ~Bertrand Russell

The foolish man seeks happiness in the

distance; The wise grows it under his feet.
~ James Oppenheimer

The grand essentials of happiness are:

something to do, something to love, and
something to hope for.
~Allan K. Chalmers

The fact that I can plant a seed and it

becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge

The happiest of people don't necessarily

and it becomes another's, smile at someone

have the best of everything; they just

and receive a smile in return, are to me

make the most of everything that comes

continual spiritual exercises.

along their way. ~Unknown

~Leo Buscaglia
The greater part of our happiness or
misery depends on our dispositions, and not
on our circumstances. We carry the seeds
of the one or the other about with us in
our minds wherever we go.
~Martha Washington
The good we do today becomes the
happiness of tomorrow. ~William James
The greatest happiness is to know the

The greatest happiness you can have is

source of unhappiness.

knowing that you do not necessarily

~Fyodor Dostoevsky

require happiness. ~William Saroyan

The greatest gift you can give yourself
is joy, not only because of the feeling
that goes with it at the moment, but
because of the magnificent experience it
will draw to you. It will produce wonders
in your life. ~Jack Boland

The happiest people seem to be those who

have no particular reason for being so
except that they are so.
~William Ralph Inge

The happy man is not he who seems thus

to others, but who seems thus to himself.
~Publilius Syrus

The happy think a lifetime short, but to the

The hardest habit of all to break is the

unhappy one night can be an eternity.

terrible habit of happiness.

~Lucian

~Theodosia Garrison

The happiness of most people we know is

The highest happiness of man is to have

not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal

probed what is knowable and quietly to

errors, but by the repetition of slowly

revere what is unknowable.

destructive little things. ~Ernest Dimnet

~Johann Wolgang Von Goethe

The happiness of your life depends upon the

quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard
accordingly, and take care that you
entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue
and reasonable nature. ~Marcus Aurelius

The secret of happiness is this: let your

interests be as wide as possible, and let
your reactions to the things and persons
that interest you be as far as possible
friendly rather than hostile.
~Bertrand Russell

The happiness that is genuinely satisfying

is accompanied by the fullest exercise of
our faculties and the fullest realization of
the world in which we live.
~Bertrand Russell
The human race has one really effective
weapon, and that is laughter.
~Mark Twain
The human spirit needs to accomplish, to

The most wasted of all days is one

achieve, to triumph to be happy. ~Ben Stein

without laughter. ~E E. Cummings

The journey to happiness involves finding

The man who is born with a talent which

the courage to go down into ourselves and

he was meant to use finds his greatest

take responsibility for whats there: all

happiness in using it.

of it. ~Richard Rohr

~Johann Wolgang Von Goethe

The key to happiness is having dreams; the

The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as

key to success is making them come true.

sages in all times assert; the happy

~James Allen

mans without a shirt. ~John Heywood

The mind is its own place, and in itself, can

The most exciting happiness is the

make heaven of Hell, and a hell of Heaven.

happiness generated by forces beyond

~John Milton

your control. ~Ogden Nash

The most happy man is he who knows how
to bring into relation the end and
beginning of his life.
~Johann Wolgang Von Goethe

The only happiness a brave person ever

troubles themselves in asking about, is
happiness enough to get their work done.
~Thomas Carlyle
The only cure for vanity is laughter, and

The only true measure of success is the

the only fault that is laughable is vanity.

amount of joy we are feeling.

~Henri Bergson

~AbrahamHicks

The only ones among you who will be really

happy are those who will have sought and
found how to serve. ~Albert Schweitzer
The only honest art form is laughter,
comedy. You can't fake it... try to fake
three laughs in an hour - ha ha ha ha ha they'll take you away, man. You can't.
~Lenny Bruce
The purpose of life is the expansion of
happiness. ~Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

The person who can bring the spirit of

The search for happiness is one of the

laughter into a room is indeed blessed.

chief sources of unhappiness.

~Bennett Cerf

~Eric Hoffer

The person who seeks all their applause

The pursuit of happiness is a most

from outside has their happiness in

ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness

anothers keeping. ~Claudius Claudianus

youll never find it. ~Charles Percy Snow

The really happy person is the one who can

enjoy the scenery, even when they have to
take a detour. ~Sir James Jeans

The secret of contentment is knowing

how to enjoy what you have, and to be
able to lose all desire for things beyond
your reach. ~Lin Yutang

The reason people find it so hard to be

The secret of happiness and prosperity in

happy is that they always see the past

this world, as in the world to come, lies in

better than it was, the present worse

thinking of the welfare of others first,

than it is, and the future less resolved

and not taking ones self too seriously.

than it will be. ~Marcel Pagnol

~J. Kindleberger
The secret of happiness is freedom, and
the secret of freedom, courage.
~Thucydides
The secret of happiness is something to
do. ~John Burroughs

The sense of humor has other things to do

The sound of laughter is like the vaulted

than to make itself conspicuous in the act

dome of a temple of happiness.

of laughter. ~Alice Meynell

~Milan Kundera

The supreme happiness in life is the

conviction that we are loved - loved for
ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of
ourselves. ~Victor Hugo
The truth is that all of us attain the
greatest success and happiness possible in
this life whenever we use our native
capacities to their greatest extent.
~Smiley Blanton

The thirst after happiness is never

extinguished in the heart of man.
~Jean Jacques Rousseau
The way to happiness is: keep your heart
free from hate, your mind from worry.
Live simply, give much. Fill your life with
love. Do as you would be done by. ~Buddha

The two enemies of human happiness are

pain and boredom. ~Arthur Schopenhauer

There are hundreds of languages in the

world, but a smile speaks them all.
~Unknown

The souls joy lies in doing.

The weeping of an heir is laughter in

~Percy Bysshe Shelley

disguise. ~Publilius Syrus

The world is full of people looking for

There are some days when I think Im

spectacular happiness while they snub

going to die from an overdose of

contentment. ~Doug Larson

satisfaction. ~Salvador Dali

The worlds literature and folklore are full

of stories that point out how futile it can
be to seek happiness. Rather, happiness is
a blessing that comes to you as you go
along; a treasure that you incidentally find.
~Louis Binstock

There is little success where there is little

laughter. ~Andrew Carnegie
There are people who can do all fine and

There can be no happiness if the things

heroic things but one: keep from telling their

we believe in are different from the

happiness to the unhappy. ~Mark Twain

things we do. ~Freya Stark

There are souls in this world which have the

gift of finding joy everywhere and of
leaving it behind them when they go.
~Frederick Wm. Faber

There are two things to aim at in life:

first, to get what you want; and after
that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of
mankind achieve the second.
~Logan Smith

There is no duty we so underrate as the

There is no end of craving. Hence

duty of being happy. By being happy we sow

contentment alone is the best way to

anonymous benefits upon the world.

happiness. Therefore, acquire

~Robert Loius Stevenson

contentment. ~Sri Swami Sivananda

There is no way to happiness. Happiness is

There is only one happiness in life, to love

the way. ~Wayne Dyer

and be loved. ~George Sand

There can never be enough said of the

virtues, dangers, the power of a shared
laugh. ~Francoise Sagan

There is a thin line that separates

laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy,
humor and hurt. ~Erma Bombeck

There is no cosmetic for beauty like

There is no point to samba if it doesn't

happiness. ~Countess of Blessington

make you smile. ~Alma Guillermoprieto

There is only one cause of unhappiness: the

false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs
so widespread, so commonly held, that it
never occurs to you to question them.
~Anthony de Mello
There is no greater joy than that of
feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of
life is expressed by creation.
~Henri L. Bergson
There is nothing worth the wear of winning,
but laughter and the love of friends.
~James Boswell
There is only one way to happiness and

There's nothing I value more than the

that is to cease worrying about things

closeness of friends and family, a smile

which are beyond the power of our will.

as I pass someone on the street.

~Epictetus

~Willie Stargell

There is this difference between happiness

Through humor, you can soften some of

and wisdom, that he that thinks himself the

the worst blows that life delivers. And

happiest man, really is so; but he who

once you find laughter, no matter how

thinks himself the wisest, is generally the

painful your situation might be, you can

greatest fool. ~Charles Caleb Colton

survive it. ~Bill Cosby

They gave each other a smile with a future

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.

in it. ~Ring Lardner

~John Lennon

They might not need me; but they might. I'll

let my head be just in sight; a smile as
small as mine might be precisely their
necessity. ~Emily Dickinson

They say a person needs just three

things to be truly happy in this world:
Someone to love, something to do, and
something to hope for. ~Allan K.
Chalmers
This is the true joy of life-the being used
for a purpose recognized by yourself as
a mighty one, the being thoroughly worn
out before you are thrown to the scrapheap; the being a force of nature
instead of a feverish, selfish clod of
ailments and grievances.
~George Bernard Shaw

Think of all the beauty thats still left in

Those who seek happiness miss it, and

and around you and be happy!

those who discuss it, lack it.

~Anne Frank

~Holbrook Jackson

Those who bring sunshine into the lives of

others cannot keep it from themselves.
~James Matthew Barrie
Those who can laugh without cause have
either found the true meaning of happiness
or have gone stark raving mad.
~Norm Papernick
Thousands of candles can be lighted from
a single candle, and the life of the candle
will not be shortened. Happiness never
decreases by being shared. ~Buddha

Though the clown is often deadpan, he is

a connoisseur of laughter. ~Mel Gussow

Three grand essentials to happiness in this

life are something to do, something to love,
and something to hope for.
~Joseph Addison
'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life
flows along like a song; But the man worth
while is the one who will smile when
everything goes dead wrong.
~Ella Wheeler Wilcox
To be happy in this world, especially when
youth is past, it is necessary to feel
oneself not merely an isolated individual
whose day will soon be over, but part of
the stream of life slowing on from the
first germ to the remote and unknown
future. ~Bertrand Russell

To be able to find joy in another's joy,

that is the secret of happiness.
~George Bernanos
To be able to throw one's self away for
the sake of a moment, to be able to
sacrifice years for a woman's smile that is happiness. ~Hermann Hesse
To get up each morning with the resolve
to be happy is to set our own conditions
to the events of each day. To do this is
to condition circumstances instead of
being conditioned by them.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
To be happy is not the purpose of our
being rather it is to deserve happiness.
~Johann G. Fichte
To be happy, we must not be too
concerned with others. ~Albert Camus
To be strong is to be happy! ~Longfellow
To be without some of the things you
want is an indispensable part of
happiness. ~Bertrand Russell
To describe happiness is to diminish it.
~Henri B. Stendhal

To fill the hour; that is happiness.

To have joy one must share it. Happiness

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

was born a twin. ~Lord Byron

To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than

To live happily is an inward power of the

laughter. ~Francoise Sagan

soul. ~Aristotle

To forgive is the highest, most beautiful

To live long and achieve happiness,

form of love. In return, you will receive

cultivate the art of radiating happiness.

untold peace and happiness. ~Robert Muller

~Malcolm Forbes

To me, there are three things we all should

do every day. We should do this every day
of our lives. Number one is laugh. You should
laugh every day. Number two is think. You
should spend some time in thought. And
number three is, you should have your
emotions moved to tears, could be
happiness or joy. But think about it. If you
laugh, you think, and you cry, that's a full
day. That's a heck of a day. You do that
seven days a week, you're going to have
something special. ~Jim Valvano

Too often we underestimate the power of

a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening
ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest
act of caring, all of which have the
potential to turn a life around.
~Leo Buscaglia

True humor springs not more from the

head than from the heart. It is not
contempt; its essence is love. It issues
not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie
far deeper. ~Thomas Carlyle
True happiness comes from the joy of
deeds well done, the zest of creating
things new. ~Antoine De Saint-Exupery
True happiness consists not in the
multitude of friends, but in the worth and
choice. ~Ben Jonson
True happiness involves the full use of
ones power and talents.
~John W. Gardner

True happiness is the full use of your

We all live with the objective of being

powers along lines of excellence in a life

happy; our lives are all different and yet

affording scope. ~John F. Kennedy

the same. ~Anne Frank

Twenty years from now you will be more

disappointed by the things that you didnt
do than by the ones you did do. So throw
off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe
harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails.
Explore. Dream. Discover. ~Mark Twain

We all want to be happy, and were all

going to die. You might say those are the
only two unchallengeably true facts that
apply to every human being on this planet.
~William Boyd

We act as though comfort and luxury

were the chief requirements in life, when all
we need to make us really happy is
something to be enthusiastic about.
~Charles Kingsley
We always have enough to be happy if we
are enjoying what we do have-and not
worrying about what we dont have.
~Ken Keyes Jr.
We are happy when for everything inside
us there is a corresponding something
outside us. ~William Butler Yeats
We are long before we are convinced that

We should consider every day lost on

happiness is never to be found; and each

which we have not danced at least once.

believes it possessed by others, to keep

And we should call every truth false

alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

which was not accompanied by at least

~Samuel Johnson

one laugh. ~Friedrich Nietzsche

We are more interested in making others

We are shaped by our thoughts; we

believe we are happy than in trying to be

become what we think. When the mind is

happy ourselves.

pure, joy follows like a shadow that never

~Fracois De La Rochefoucauld

leaves. ~Guatama Buddha

We are never so happy nor so unhappy as

We are no longer happy as soon as we

we imagine. ~Fracois De La Rochefoucauld

wish to be happier. ~Walter Landor

We are made happy when reason can

When onstage, I always try to take my

discover no occasion for it. The memory of

audience through as many emotions as I

some past moments is more persuasive

possibly can. I want them to go from

than the experience of present ones. There

laughter to tears, be shocked and

have been visions of such breadth and

surprised and walk out the door with a

brightness that these motes were invisible

renewed sense of themselves - and

in their light. ~Henry David Thoreau

maybe a smile. ~Reba McEntire

We cannot be contented because we are
happy, and we cannot be happy because
we are contented. ~Walter Landor
We do have a zeal for laughter in most
situations, give or take a dentist.
~Joseph Heller
We either make ourselves happy or
miserable. The amount of work is the
same. ~Carlos Castaneda

We have no more right to consume

We need Joy as we need air. We need

happiness without producing it than to

Love as we need water. We need each

consume wealth without producing it.

other as we need the earth we share.

~George Bernard Shaw

~Maya Angelou

We think a happy life consists in tranquility

Were born to be happy, all of us.

of mind. ~Marcus T. Cicero

~Alfred Sutro

We sometimes laugh from ear to ear, but

We wish to be happier than other people;

it would be impossible for a smile to be

and this is difficult, for we believe others

wider than the distance between our eyes.

to be happier than they are.

~Malcolm De Chazal

~Charles De Montesquieu

Whatever our wandering, our happiness will

What a man really wants is creative

always be found within a narrow compass,

challenge with sufficient skills to bring him

and in the middle of the objects more

within the reach of success so that he

immediately within our reach.

may have the expanding joy of

~Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

achievement. ~Fay B. Nash

We humans are social beings. We come into

the world as the result of others actions.
We survive here in dependence on others.
Whether we like it or not, there is hardly a
moment of our lives when we do not benefit
from others activities. For this reason it is
hardly surprising that most of our
happiness arises in the context of our
relationships with others. ~Dalai Lama

We shall never know all the good that a

simple smile can do. ~Mother Teresa

Wear a smile and have friends; wear a

Weeping may endure for a night, but joy

scowl and have wrinkles. ~George Eliot

cometh in the morning. ~Psalm 30:5

We take greater pains to persuade
others we are happy than in trying to
think so ourselves. ~Confucius

We tend to forget that happiness

doesnt come as a result of getting
something we dont have, but rather of
recognizing and appreciating what we do
have. ~Frederick Keonig

What can be added to the happiness of a

man who is in health, out of debt, and has
a clear conscience? ~Adam Smith

What I know for sure is that you feel

real JOY in direct proportion to how
connected you are to living your truth.
~Oprah Winfrey

What a wonderful life Ive had! I only wish

What soap is to the body, laughter is to

Id realized it sooner. ~Colette

the soul. ~Yiddish Proverb

What makes people happy is activity;

What would you call the highest

changing evil itself into good by power,

happiness? Wratislaw was ask. The

working in a God like manner.

sense of competence was the answer,

~Johann Wolgang Von Goethe

given without hesitation. ~John Buchan

When I meet people from other cultures I

When one door of happiness closes,

know that they too want happiness and do

another opens; but often we look so long

not want suffering, this allows me to see

at the closed door that we do not see the

them as brothers and sisters. ~Dalai

one which has been opened for us. ~Helen

Lama

Keller

What happiness is there which is not

purchased with more or less of pain?
~Margaret Oliphant

When I was in kindergarten, I had one line

in a little play. I said, I am Patrick Potato
and this is my cousin, Mrs. Tomato, and I
heard laughter. I wanted to be an actress
from that moment on. ~Doris Roberts

When people are laughing, they're generally

When what we are is what we want to

not killing each other. ~Alan Alda

be, thats happiness. ~Malcolm Forbes

When part of what you're trying to get

at is the truth hidden under a taboo, or
when you want to nail a hypocrisy,
laughter is a very useful tool. I want to
show the painful side of existence, but
there is no question I also want to make
people laugh. ~Todd Solondz

When someone does something good,

When the needs of one person are being

applaud! You will make two people happy.

met by the other, there is laughter.

~Samuel Goldwyn

~Yakov Smirnoff

When we are happy we are always good,

When we love unconditionally, with our

but when we are good we are not always

hearts wide open, we feel joyfulness.

happy. ~Oscar Wilde

~Arnold Patent

When we recall the past, we usually find

that it is the simplest things - not the
great occasions - that in retrospect give
off the greatest glow of happiness. ~Bob
Hope
When you dance, your purpose is not to get
to a certain place on the floor. Its to
enjoy each step along the way. ~Wayne
Dyer
When you walk into a room, a healthy,
beautiful smile is incredibly important.
~Susan Anton
When you wish someone joy, you wish them
peace, love, prosperity, happiness... all the
good things. ~Maya Angelou
When you wish someone joy, you wish them

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

peace, ~Unknown

~Sophocles

Where there is joy there is creation.

Whoever does not regard what he has

Where there is no joy there is no creation:

as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though

know the nature of joy. ~Veda Upanishads

he be master of the world. ~Epictetus

Whoever is happy will make others happy

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles

too. ~Anne Frank

come. ~William Shakespeare

With the fearful strain that is on me night

You can never get enough of what you

and day, if I did not laugh I should die.

dont need to make you happy. ~Eric

~Abraham Lincoln

Hoffer

Without Joy in your life you are powerless.

You're never fully dressed without a smile.

~Joyce Meyers

~Martin Charnin

Without a humble but reasonable

confidence in your own powers you cannot
be successful or happy.
~Norman Vincent Peale

You are forgiven for your happiness and

your successes only if you generously
consent to share them. ~Albert Camus
Work and live to serve others, to leave
the world a little better than you found it
and garner for yourself as much peace
of mind as you can. This is happiness.
~David Sarnoff
You can turn painful situations around
through laughter. If you can find humor
in anything, even poverty, you can survive
it. ~Bill Cosby
You never enjoy the world aright, till the

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it

sea itself floweth in your veins, till you

plops down in your favorite chair and stays

are clothed with the heavens and

as long as it wants. ~Stephen King

crowned with the stars. ~Thomas

Traherne

You take away all the other luxuries in life,

and if you can make someone smile and
laugh, you have given the most special gift:
happiness. ~Brad Garrett