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“I realize humor isn't for everyone. It's only for people who want to have fun, enjoy life, and feel alive.” --Ann Wilson and Schaef “Happy is it when people have the cares of life to struggle with, for these struggles prevent their becoming prey to enervating vices, merely from idleness.” --Mary Wollstonecraft “Gratitude. More aware of what you have than what you don't. Recognizing the treasure in the simple-- a child's hug, fertile soil, a golden sunset. Relishing in the comfort of the common.” --Max Lucado Take time to laugh, it is the music of the soul. “Happiness is a sunbeam... When it strikes a kindred heart, like the converged lights upon a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfect until it is shared.” --Jane Porter “Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which, if you sit down quietly, may alight upon you.” --Nathaniel Hawthorne “A person who belly-laughs doesn't bellyache.” --Susan Thurman “Frame your mind to mirth and merriment, which bars a thousand harms and lengthens life.” --William Shakespeare “People are just about as happy as they make their minds up to be.” --Abraham Lincoln “Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies in us while we live.” -- Norman Cousins “Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadows.” --Helen Keller Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art. “This time, like all time, is a very good one if we but know what to do with it.” -Emerson “It isn't the big pleasures that count the most; it's making a great deal out of the little ones.” --Jean Webster You can multiply happiness by dividing it. “If you can walk, you can dance. If you can talk, you can sing.” --Zimbabwe Proverb It takes 26 muscles to smile and 62 muscles to frown. Why not make it easy on yourself? “Applaud my friends, the comedy is over.” –Beethoven “The secret of happiness is not in doing what we like to do, but in liking what we have to do.” --James Barrie “Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look at the stars.” --Henry Van Dyke "Most people are unhappy because they think there is something out there that they have yet to find that will be the missing piece in their happiness puzzle. But the only missing piece is the awareness that happiness is a function of attitude... As Dostoyevsky said, 'Man is unhappy because he doesn't know he is happy.' The sad truth is that most unhappy people, the ones who let us know they are unhappy, usually are pouting because they're not getting their way. They focus on what is lacking instead of on the beauty each moment can bring us." --Taylor & Crain, Optimystic's Handbook, 133 “Anticipate the good so that you may enjoy it.” --Ethiopian Proverb “It isn't the big pleasures that count the most; it's making a great deal out of the little ones.” --Jean Webster “Life is so full of meaning and purpose, so full of beauty- beneath its covering- that you will find that earth but cloaks your heaven.” --Fra Giovanni Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot help but bring some into their own lives as well. Take time to laugh, it is the music of the soul. “Whoever is happy will make others happy too.” --Anne Frank “The great sea has set me in motion, set me adrift, moving me like a weed in a river. The sky and the strong wind have moved the spirit inside me till I am carried away trembling with joy.” --Inuit Shaman Uvavnukfrom The Enlightened Heart, Stephen Mitchell, 1989 "Is it beyond thee to be glad with the gladness of this rhythm? To be tossed and lost and broken in the whirl of this fearful joy? All things rush on, and they stop not, they look not behind, no power can hold them back, they rush on. Keeping step with that restless, rapid music, seasons come dancing and pass away. Colors, tunes, and perfumes pour in endless cascades in the abounding joy that scatters and gives up and dies every moment. " --Rabindranath Tagore “Beauty is before me, and beauty is behind me, above me and below me hovers the beautiful. I am surrounded by it, I am immersed in it. In my youth, I am aware of it, and in old age, I shall walk quietly the beautiful trail. In beauty it is begun. In beauty, it is ended.” --Navajo Indians of North America “Nobody really cares if you're miserable, so you might as well be happy.” “If the day and the night are such that you greet them with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, is more elastic, more starry, more immortal—that is your success.” --Henry David Thoreau “It is only in exceptional moods that we realize how wonderful are the commonest experiences of life. It seems to me that sometimes that these experiences have an ‘inner' side, as well as the outer side we normally perceive. At such moments one suddenly sees everything with new eyes; one feels on the brink of some great revelation. It is as if we caught a glimpse of some incredibly beautiful world that lies silently about us all the time.” --J.W.N. Sullivan “The truly happy people are those who have a source of happiness too deep to be seriously disturbed by ordinary troubles.” --Marion K. Rich “I meant to do my work today, but a brown bird sang in the apple tree, and a butterfly flitted across the field, and all the leaves were calling me. And the wind went sighing over the land, tossing the grasses to and fro, and a rainbow held out its shining hand—so what could I do but laugh and go?” --Richard LeGallienne “The real joy of life is in its play. Play is anything we do for the joy and love of doing it, apart from any profit, compulsion, or sense of duty. It is the real living of life with the feeling of freedom and self-xpression. Play is the business of childhood, and its continuation in later years is the prolongation of youth.” --Walter Rauschenbusch “Success… is to spring to meet the day with a thrill at being alive. It is to go forth to meet the morning in an ecstasy of joy.” --Lillian Whiting “The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions—The little, soon-forgotten charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look, or a heartfelt compliment.” --Samuel Taylor Coleridge “Joy is a light that fills you with hope and faith and love.” --Adela Rohers St. Johns “Lovely, complicated wrappings/ Sheath the gift of one-day-more/ Breathless, I unties the package--/ Never lived this day before!” --Gloria Gaither “Always laugh when you can; it is cheap medicine. Merriment is a philosophy not well understood. It is also the sunny side of existence.” --Lord Byron “If there are no dogs in heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.” --Will Rogers |
