Happiness and Laughter

Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.
Guillaume Apollinaire

Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over, but showing it principally in one spot.
Josh Billings (1818-1885)

That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail, no one is laughing at you.
A. Whitney Brown

Laughter is the shortest thing between two people.
Victor Borge

The truth is that all of us attain the greatest success and happiness possible in this life whenever we use our native capacities to their greatest extent.
Smiley Blanton, psychiatrist

Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
J.M. Barrie, Scottish writer (1860-1937)

The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.
Pearl S. Buck (1892-1973), writer

By learning to be with myself, to bring peace to myself, I can be more effective both in creating happiness in my own life and in offering a helping hand to others.
Ingrid Bacci, author

Happiness sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.
John Barrymore (1882-1942), actor

A cheerful heart is good medicine...
Proverbs 17:22a

I did it for the buzz. I did it for the pure joy of the thing. And if you can do it for the joy, you can do it forever.
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
e.e. cummings

Laughter is inner jogging.
Norman Cousins

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

A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Hugh Downs

He who laughs lasts didn't get it.
Helen Giangregorio

In order to be utterly happy the only thing necessary is to refrain form comparing this moment with other moments in the past, which I often did not fully enjoy because I was comparing them with other moments of the future.
Andre Gide (1869-1951), writer

Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.
Brendan Gill

Yes, there is Nirvana; it is leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem.
Kahlil Gibran, author

Enjoyment is not a goal; it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity.
Paul Goodman (1911-1972), writer

I've seen what a good laugh can do. It can transform tears into hope.
Bob Hope, entertainer

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
Thich Nhat Hanh, Author and Buddhist Monk

Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life.
Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.
Cullen Hightower

The best way to find happiness is not to search for it.
Jewish proverb

Time spent laughing is time spent with the gods.
Japanese proverb

If you choose one characteristic that would get you through life, choose a sense of humor.
Jennifer Jones, actress

Laughter is to life what shock absorbers are to automobiles. It won't take the potholes out of the road, but it sure makes the ride smoother.
Barbara Johnson, writer

Action may not bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
WIlliam James, educator

Happiness is excitement that has found a settling-down place, but there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around.
E.L. Konigsburg, children's author

Humor is a prelude to faith, and laughter is the beginning of prayer.
Reinhold Niebuhr

Humor is the shock absorber of life; it helps us take action.
Peggy Noonan, writer

Laughter is the music of life.
Sir William Osler

Life is short. Be happy.
monster.com

Spread a little sunshine.
Jack Lemmon's father's last words

That's the difference between me and the rest of the world. Happiness isn't good enough for me. I demand euphoria.
Calvin and Hobbes

He who laughs, lasts.
Mary Pettibone Poole

Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else.
Will Rogers (1879-1935)

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
Agnes Repplier

Everybody had better get used to this smile right here. It's going to be on my face every day.
Gary Sheffield, Florida Marlins

Happiness is a sort of atmosphere you can live in sometimes when you are lucky. Joy is a light that fills you with hope and faith and love.
Adela Rogers St. Johns

There can be no happiness if the things we believe are different from the things we do.
Freya Madeline Stark (1893-1993), writer

The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase;
if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.
C.P. Snow

It's the laughter we will remember whenever we remember the way we were.
"The Way We Were", Barbra Streisand

Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources, which must be preserved at all costs.
James Thurber (1894-1961), writer

Happiness sometimes sneaks in through a door you did not know you left open.

Happiness consists of living each day as if it were the first day of your honeymoon and the last day of your vacation.

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions, and not on our circumstances. We carry the seeds of the one or the other about with us in our minds wherever we go.
Martha Washington (1732-1802)

I wish you all the joy that you can wish.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Doing what we were meant to do creates fun, excitement, and contentment in our lives, and invariably, in the lives of people around us. When you're excited about something, it's contagious.
Mark Victor Hansen

Unshared joy is an unlighted candle.
Spanish proverb