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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

It's good to play and you must keep in practice.

The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play.

A little work a little play To keep us going - and so good-day!

George du Maurier

Every time a man smiles and much more when he laughs it adds something to his fragment of life.

Laurence Sterne

What sunshine is to flowers smiles are to humanity. They are but trifles to be sure but scattered along life's pathway the good they do is inconceivable.

It's easy enough to be pleasant when everything goes like a song but the man who is worthwhile is the man who can smile when everything goes dead wrong.

Anonymous

If you have made another person on this earth smile your life has been worthwhile.

Sr. Mary Christelle Macaluso

Of all the things you wear your expression is the most important.

It is only through love that we can attain to communion with God. All living knowledge of God rest upon this foundation: that we experience Him in our lives as Will-to-love.

Albert Schweitzer

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble how hopeless the outlook how muddled the tangle how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all. If only you could love enough you would be the happiest and most powerful being in the world.

Emmet Fox

What a grand thing to be loved! What a grander thing still to lovel

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

Love . . . binds everything together in perfect harmony.

Bible

For love ... is the blood of life the power of reunion in the separated.

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.

This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love the more they give the more they possess.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Don't shut love out of your life by saying it's impossible to find time. The quickest way to receive love is to give the fastest way to lose love is to hold it too tightly and the best way to keep love is to give it wings.

The love we give away is the only one we keep.

The issue is not so much being loved but being loving which leads to the same wonderful feeling you experience when someone loves you.

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

Simplicity clarity singleness: these are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness and joy.

Richard Halloway

Joys divided are increased.

Josiah Gilbert Holland

You increase your joy by increasing the pure joy of others.

Torkom Saraydarian

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

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.

When we feel joyful euphoric happy we are more open to life more capable of seeing things clearly and handling daily tensions.

Joy is not in things it is in us.

Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Joy is the will which labors which overcomes obstacles which knows triumph.

William Butler Yeats

It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory and in creative action that man finds his supreme joy.

Antoine De Saint Exupery

I believe humans were born to have joy and to have it more abundantly that the birthright of everyone is loving caring sharing and abundance.

Peter McWiluams

Joy is your birthright.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

Blessed are the joymakers.

Nathaniel Parker Willis

Although a lot can be learned from adversity most of the same lessons can be learned through laughter and joy.

Peter McWilliams

So when you're lonely or sad or bad or blue remember where laughter's hiding . . . it's hiding inside of YOU!

Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.

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

Laughter puts your brain your central nervous system and your whole being into a state of free play.

Laughing deeply is living deeply.

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

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

Cherish all your happy moments they make a fine cushion for old age.

Booth Tarkington

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life the whole aim and end of human existence.

Aristotle

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

Robert G. Ingersoll

Happiness and love are just a choice away.

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

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.

Humor enables one to live in the midst of tragic events without becoming a tragic figure.

There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor.

Thomas Higginson

Humor is our way of defending ourselves from life's absurdities by thinking absurdly about them.

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.

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.

Joy is the most infallible sign of the Presence of God.

Teilhard de Chardin

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.

Joy of life seems to me to arise from a sense of being where one belongs ... of being foursquare with the life we have chosen. All the discontented people I know are trying sedulously to be something they are not to do something they cannot do.

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.

We have a tendency to obscure the forest of simple joys with the trees of problems.

Christiane Collange

People need joy quite as much as clothing. Some of them need it far more.

Margaret Collier Graham

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