Happiness is different than
pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and
enduring and accomplishing. George Sheehan Among those whom I like and
admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those
who I love, I can: all of them make me laugh. W. H. Auden Diane Johnson Laughter is the jam on the toast
of life. It adds flavor, keeps it from being too dry, and
makes it easier to swallow. You can't stay mad at somebody
who makes you laugh. Jay Leno Why not seize the pleasure at
once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation,
foolish preparation! Jane Austin Hermann Hesse Happiness is a how, not a what;
a talent, not an object. When one door of happiness
closes, another opens; but often we looked so long at the
closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened
for us. Helen Keller The foolish man seeks happiness
in the distance; the wise grows it under his
feet. James Oppenheim Timothy Dwight The happiest person is the
person who thinks the most interesting thoughts. From contentment with little
comes happiness. African proverb Happiness is not having what you
want, but wanting what you have. Hyman Judah Schachtel Andy Rooney Happiness depends more on how
life strikes you than on what happens. Happiness is not a horse; you
cannot harness it. Russian proverb Joy runs deeper than
despair. Corrie ten Boom Chinese proverb One joy scatters a hundred
griefs. For every minute you are angry
you lose sixty seconds of happiness. Ralph Waldo Emerson Happiness makes up in height
what it lacks in length. Robert Frost Epictitus There is only one way to
happiness and that is to cease worrying about things that
are beyond the power of our will. What we call the secret of
happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to chose
life. Leo Buscaglia Joking is undignified; that's
why it's good for the soul. G. K. Chesterton George Gordon, Lord
Byron All who joy would win must share
it - happiness was born a twin. My creed is that: Happiness is
the only good. The place to be happy is here. The time to be
happy is now. The way to be happy is to make others
so. Robert G. Ingersoll Let us be grateful to people who
make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our
soul blossom. Marcel Proust Abraham Lincoln I have found that most people
are as happy as they make up their minds to be. A man is happy so long as he
chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him. Alexander
Solzhenitsyn The most utterly lost of all
days, is that in which you have not once laughed. Unknown Christina Rossetti Better by far that you should
forget and smile than that you should remember and be
sad. Good humor is the health of the
soul, sadness it's poison. Unknown Everybody has their ups and
downs so I decided to have mine between good and
great. Daniel Hoogtrerp Unknown Without my sense of humor, I
doubt I'd have much sense at all. Grief can take care of itself,
but to get the full value of joy you must have somebody to
divide it with. Mark Twain A good laugh overcomes more
difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than any other
one thing. Laura Ingalls Wilder Isabelle Eberhardt One must never look for
happiness; one meets it by the way. Laughter is the shortest
distance between two people. Victor Borge The Constitution only gives
people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it
yourself. Ben Franklin Irish Proverb A good laugh and a long sleep
are the two best cures. Whoever is happy will make
others happy, too. He who has courage and faith will never
perish in misery! Anne Frank Happiness is seeing the muscular
lifeguard all the girls were admiring leave the beach hand
in hand with another muscular lifeguard. Johnny Carson Wil Courter You cannot laugh and be unkind
at the same time. That's the difference between me
and the rest of the world! Happiness isn't good enough for
me! I demand euphoria! Calvin, Calvin and
Hobbes
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