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Joy is not in things it is in us.

There is only one happiness in life to love and be loved.

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

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

Shared laughter is like throwing open the shutters in a gloomy room and letting in fresh air and sunshine.

Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on someone without getting some on yourself.

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.

Laughing deeply is living deeply.

The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do something to love and something to hope for.

Everybody forgets the basic thing: people are not going to love you unless you love them.

In our life there is a single color as on an artist's palette which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love.

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.

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.

It is not what we do it is how much love we put in the doing.

A five-word sentence that could change the world tomorrow is "What would love do now?"

We are most alive when we're in love.

But some emotions don't make a lot of noise. It's hard to hear pride. Caring is real faint - like a heartbeat. And pure love why some days it's so quiet you don't even know it's there.

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.

A happy life is made up of little things . . . a gift sent a letter written a call made a recommendation given transportation provided a cake made a book lent a check sent.

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

Love . . . binds everything together in perfect harmony.

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

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads.

Someday after we have mastered the winds the waves the tide and gravity we shall harness for God the energies of love. Then for the second time in the history of the world man will have discovered fire.

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

Lead the life that will make you kindly and friendly to everyone about you and you will be surprised what a happy life you will lead.

The secret of happiness is to count your blessings while others are adding up their troubles.

What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork.

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

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

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

Remember that happiness is a way of travel not a destination.

You must love yourself before you love another. By accepting yourself and fully being what you are . . . your simple presence can make others happy.

Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.

If God came in and said "I want you to be happy for the rest of your life " what would you do?

Every single one of us can do things that no one else can do can love things that no one else can love . . . We are like violins. We can be used for doorstops or we can make music.

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.

You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

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

None but those who are happy in themselves can make others so.

Do not worry eat three square meals a day say your prayers be courteous to your creditors keep your digestion good exercise go slow and easy. Maybe there are other things your special case requires to make you happy but my friend these I reckon will give you a good life.

The happiest and most contented people are those who each day perform to make the best of their abilities.

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

A good laugh helps us recognize how ridiculous it is to get excited about matters that are often trivial. . . .

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?

Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.

Burdens become light when cheerfully borne.

The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little soon-forgotten charities of a kiss or smile a kind look a heartfelt compliment and the countless infinitesimals of pleasurable and genial feeling.

Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love grace and gratitude.

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

Love is above all the gift of oneself.

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident a tight girdle a higher tax bracket or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

The best way to secure future happiness is to be as happy as is rightfully possible today.

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human race.

Choose to be a love-finder rather than a faultfinder.

An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.

It is not how much we have but how much we enjoy that makes happiness.

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.

Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.