Lighten Quotes - Page 2

Nature intended you to be the fountain-spring of cheerfulness and social life and not the mountain of despair and melancholy.

Sir Arthur Helps

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

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.

In the coldest February as in every other month in every other year the best thing to hold on to in this world is each other.

True happiness is to understand our duties toward God and man to enjoy the present without anxious dependence on the future not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have which is abundantly sufficient.

Seneca

The secret of happiness is to count your blessings - not your birthdays.

When a man is gloomy everything seems to go wrong when he is cheerful everything seems right!

Bible

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.

Make people happy and there will not be half the quarreling or a tenth part of the wickedness there now is.

Lydia Maria Child

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

Christiane Collange

The only power which can illuminate you is your own mind! No other mind can lighten you if your mind insists to remain in the darkness! The fate of your fate is within you!

Mehmet Murat ildan

As I walk , I light the lamp of my soul. As I walk, I light the wick of another’s soul.

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

Thomas Higginson

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

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

Do not seek perfection in a changing world. Instead perfect your love.

Master Sengstan

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

If you judge people you have no time to love them.

The essence of love is kindness.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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

The ingredients of happiness are so simple that they can be counted on one hand. Happiness comes from within and rests most securely on simple goodness and clear conscience.

The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them there ought to be as many for love.

Margaret Atwood

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

Ultimately love is self-approval.

Spend a moment every day thinking of someone to love.

Richard Carlson

Shared laughter is love made audible.

A light heart lives long.

William Shakespeare

Laughter is a gift everyone should open.

Blessed are the joymakers.

Nathaniel Parker Willis

Laughter lightens my heart and therefore heals my soul as well.

Sharon E. Rainey

Tolerance and celebration of individual differences is the fire that fuels lasting love.

Love is letting go of fear.

Gerald Jampolsky

One thing I know the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Albert Schweitzer

The highest wisdom is continual cheerfulness such a state like the region above the moon is always clear and serene.

Michel de Montaigne

No one who has ever brought up a child can doubt for a moment that love is literally the life-giving fluid of human existence.

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.

We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we imagine.

La Rochefoucauld

Life holds so much so much to be happy about always. Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can be felt only if you don't set any conditions.

Artur Rubinstein

The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes but in liking what one does.

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

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

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

Years back someone said cod liver oil was the cure-all! Cheerfulness is more palliative and with no unpleasant aftertaste.

Sr. Mary Christelle Macaluso

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.

The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous.

Let no one who loves be called unhappy. Even love unreturned has its rainbow.

Let us be of good cheer remembering that misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.

James Russell Lowell

A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world: everyone you meet is your mirror.

Ken Keyes

Joy is your birthright.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

Before strongly desiring anything we should look carefully into the happiness of its present owner.

La Rochefoucauld

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

Margaret Collier Graham

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

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

True love always brings joy to ourself and to the one we love. If our love does not bring joy to both of us it is not true love.

Thich Nhat Hanh

Nine times out of ten when you extend your arms to someone they will step in because basically they need precisely what you need.

It has always seemed to me that hearty laughter is a good way to jog internally without having to go outdoors.

Your success and happiness lie in you. Resolve to keep happy and your joy and you shall form an invisible host against difficulties.

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.

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

Booth Tarkington

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

Laurence Sterne

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