Quotes by Authors - Page 144

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
Clive James
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
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
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
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
Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love grace and gratitude.
Denis Waitley
It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
Anonymous
I've been riding the carousel in Central Park since I was five years old . . . If I'm very depressed or if something's bothering me today my husband Larry and I go back to the park. We get on the carousel horse and we start riding and I start singing at the top of my lungs. It is pure and absolute joy and happiness.
Eda LeShan
With a little discipline and regular self-checks you can learn to do one thing at a time. And do it better. And be happier doing it.
Elaine St. James
When one door of happiness closes another opens but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.
Helen Keller
We all have 100% to deal with in our lives: 10% is important 90% unimportant. The secret to a happy productive life is to deal with the 10% and let the 90% slip.
Salli Rasberry
But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads.
Albert Camus
We have all been placed on this earth to discover our own path and we will never be happy if we live someone else's idea of life.
James Van Praagh
It is not how much we have but how much we enjoy that makes happiness.
Charles Spurgeon
The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes but in liking what one does.
J.M. Barrie
The way to happiness: keep your heart free from hate your mind from worry. Live simply expect little give much. Fill your life with love. Scatter sunshine. Forget self think of others. Do as you would be done by. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.
Norman Vincent Peale
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
If you want to be happy set yourself a goal that commands your thoughts liberates your energy and inspires your hopes. Happiness is within you. It comes from doing some certain thing into which you can put all your thought and energy. If you want to be happy get enthusiastic about something.
Dale Carnegie
Make people happy and there will not be half the quarreling or a tenth part of the wickedness there now is.
Lydia Maria Child
Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
Booker T. Washington
Do you want a world with . . . more joy and happiness? Then find your own joy and happiness and contribute to the joy and happiness of others.
Bo Lozoff
The happiest and most contented people are those who each day perform to make the best of their abilities.
Alfred A. Montapert
You're happiest while you're making the greatest contribution.
Robert F. Kennedy
Many people think that if they were only in some other place or had some other job they would be happy. Well that is doubtful. So get as much happiness out of what you are doing as you can and don't put off being happy until some future date.
Dale Carnegie
If God came in and said "I want you to be happy for the rest of your life " what would you do?
Bernie Siegel
Cheerfulness is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.
Anonymous
You find yourself refreshed by the presence of cheerful people. Why not make an earnest effort to confer that pleasure on others? Half the battle is gained if you never allow yourself to say anything gloomy.
Lydia Maria Child
The highest wisdom is continual cheerfulness such a state like the region above the moon is always clear and serene.
Michel de Montaigne
An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.
Thomas Fuller
Man unlike the animal has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
Men know life too early women know life too late.
Oscar Wilde
Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.
Rabindranath Tagore
May you live all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift
I wish to preach not the doctrine of ignoble ease but the doctrine of the strenuous life.
Theodore Roosevelt
Every life is many days day after day. We walk through ourselves meeting robbers ghosts giants old men young men wives widows brothers-in-love. But always meeting ourselves.
James Joyce
I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it for I shall not pass this way again.
Anonymous
Life is a jig saw puzzle with most of the pieces missing.
Anonymous
Every man's life is a fairy-tale written by God's fingers.
Hans Christian Andersen
And remember my sentimental friend that a heart is not judged by how much you love but by how much you are loved by others.
L. Frank Baum
If we all discovered that we only had five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to tell them that they loved them.
Christopher Morley
There is no better exercise for strengthening the heart than reaching down and lifting up another.
Anonymous
Love feels no burden regards not labors strives toward more than it attains argues not of impossibility since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.
Thomas à Kempis
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.
Tom Bodett
I wonder what memories of yours will persist as you go on in life. My hunch is that the most important will have to do with feelings of loving and being loved - whoever's been close to you. As you continue to grow you'll find many ways of expressing your love and you'll discover more and more ways in which others express their love for you.
Fred Rogers
Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars.
Henry Van Dyke
Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.
Erich Fromm
Among those whom I like or admire I can find no common denominator but among those whom I love I can: all of them make me laugh.
W.H. Auden
Love is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go and it makes the end so easy.
Louisa May Alcott
Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
Erich Fromm
A loving relationship is one in which the loved one is free to be himself - to laugh with me but never at me to cry with me but never because of me to love life to love himself to love being loved. Such a relationship is based upon freedom and can never grow in a jealous heart.
Leo Buscaglia
There can be no peace of mind in love since the advantage one has secured is never anything by a fresh starting-point for further desires.
Marcel Proust