Quotes by American Authors - Page 137

Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Choose to be a love-finder rather than a faultfinder.
Gerald Jampolsky
Love is a force that connects us to every strand of the universe an unconditional state that characterizes human nature a form of knowledge that is always there for us if only we can open ourselves to it.
Emily Hilburn Sell
Nine times out of ten when you extend your arms to someone they will step in because basically they need precisely what you need.
Leo Buscaglia
Everybody forgets the basic thing: people are not going to love you unless you love them.
Pat Carroll
Love is letting go of fear.
Gerald Jampolsky
A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world: everyone you meet is your mirror.
Ken Keyes
The issue is not so much being loved but being loving which leads to the same wonderful feeling you experience when someone loves you.
Carol Pearson
The love we give away is the only one we keep.
Elbert Hubbard
It is this intangible thing love in many forms which enters into every therapeutic relationship. . . . And it is an element which binds and heals which comforts and restores which works what we have to call - for now - miracles.
Karl Menninger
For love ... is the blood of life the power of reunion in the separated.
Paul Tillich
To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.
David Viscott
Of all the things you wear your expression is the most important.
Janet Lane
It's good to play and you must keep in practice.
Jerry Seinfeld
Play keeps us vital and alive. It gives us an enthusiasm for life that is irreplaceable. Without it life just doesn't taste good.
Lucia Capacchione
Laughter is a gift everyone should open.
Gene Mitchener
The child in you like all children loves to laugh to be around people who can laugh at themselves and life. Children instinctively know that the more laughter we have in our lives the better.
Wayne Dyer
When we can laugh through our tears we are being given a powerful message. Things may be bad but they cannot be all that bad.
Allen Klein
Laughter is the brush that sweeps away the cobwebs of the heart.
Mort Walker
A good laugh helps us recognize how ridiculous it is to get excited about matters that are often trivial. . . .
Arthur Asa Berger
Shared laughter is love made audible.
Izzy Gesell
He laughs best whose laugh lasts.
Laurence J. Peter
It has always seemed to me that hearty laughter is a good way to jog internally without having to go outdoors.
Norman Cousins
Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.
Mark Twain
Laughter puts your brain your central nervous system and your whole being into a state of free play.
Max Eastman
In every job relationship or life situation there is inevitably some turbulence. Learn to laugh at it. It is part of what you do and who you are
Allen Klein
Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.
Mark Twain
So when you're lonely or sad or bad or blue remember where laughter's hiding . . . it's hiding inside of YOU!
David Saltzman
Although a lot can be learned from adversity most of the same lessons can be learned through laughter and joy.
Peter McWilliams
Blessed are the joymakers.
Nathaniel Parker Willis
Joy is your birthright.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.
Melba Colgrove
When we feel joyful euphoric happy we are more open to life more capable of seeing things clearly and handling daily tensions.
Leo Buscaglia
As you express joy you draw it out of those you meet creating joyful people and joyful events. The greater the joy you express the more joy you experience.
Arnold Patent
Joy increases as you give it and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself. In giving it you will accumulate a deposit of joy greater than you ever believed possible.
Norman Vincent Peale
You increase your joy by increasing the pure joy of others.
Torkom Saraydarian
Joys divided are increased.
Josiah Gilbert Holland
If we could learn how to balance rest against effort calmness against strain quiet against turmoil we would assure ourselves of joy in living and psychological health for life.
Josephine Rathbone
People need joy quite as much as clothing. Some of them need it far more.
Margaret Collier Graham
When we align our thoughts emotions and actions with the highest part of ourselves we are filled with enthusiasm purpose and meaning. . . . We are joyously and intimately engaged with our world. This is the experience of authentic power.
Gary Zukav
Listen to the clues. The next time you feel real joy stop and think. Pay attention. Because joy is the universe's way of knocking on your mind's door. Hello in there. Is anyone home? Can I leave a message? Yes? Good I The message is that you are happy and that means that you are in touch with your purpose.
Steve Chandler
There is always something to chuckle about. Sometimes we see it. Sometimes . . . we don't. Still the world is filled with humor. It is there when we are happy and it is there to cheer us up when we are not.
Allen Klein
Humor is our way of defending ourselves from life's absurdities by thinking absurdly about them.
Lewis Mumford
There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor.
Thomas Higginson
Humor has great power to heal on an emotional level. You can't hold anger you can't hold fear you can't hold hurt while you're laughing.
Steve Bhaerman
Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart develop the happiness habit and life will become a continual feast.
Norman Vincent Peale
Happiness and love are just a choice away.
Leo Buscaglia
The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here.
Robert G. Ingersoll
Cherish all your happy moments they make a fine cushion for old age.
Booth Tarkington
At the end of our time on earth if we have lived fully we will not be able to say "I was always happy." Hopefully we will be able to say "I have experienced a lifetime of real moments and many of them were happy moments."
Barbara DeAngelis
Humor is the healthy way of feeling "distance" between one's self and the problem a way of standing off and looking at one's problems with perspective.
Rollo May
Why should we refuse the happiness this hour gives us because some other hour might take it away?
John Oliver Hobbes
The best way to secure future happiness is to be as happy as is rightfully possible today.
Charles Eliot
You have to believe in happiness or happiness never comes.
Douglas Malloch
Each person on this planet is inherently intrinsically capable of attaining "dizzying heights" of happiness and fulfillment.
Wayne Dyer
I have found that most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Abraham Lincoln
When ill luck besets us to ease the tension we have only to remember that happiness is relative. The next time you are tempted to grumble about what has happened to you why not pause and be glad that it is no worse than it is?
Dale Carnegie
Your success and happiness lie in you. Resolve to keep happy and your joy and you shall form an invisible host against difficulties.
Helen Keller
Happiness is a butterfly which when pursued is always just beyond your grasp but which if you will sit down quietly may alight upon you.
Nathaniel Hawthorne