Lighten Quotes - Page 3

When large numbers of people share their joy in common the happiness of each is greater because each adds fuel to the other's flame.

Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind filling it with a steady and perpetual serenity.

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

Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

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

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

Why should we refuse the happiness this hour gives us because some other hour might take it away?

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.

Ultimately love is everything.

You're happiest while you're making the greatest contribution.

True love is night jasmine a diamond in darkness the heartbeat no cardiologist has ever heard. It is the most common of miracles fashioned of fleecy clouds - a handful of stars tossed into the night sky.

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.

Love your enemies because they bring out the best in you.

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.

Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here.

Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough. Not only have I found that when I talk to the little flower or to the little peanut they will give up their secrets but I have found that when I silently commune with people they give up their secrets also - if you love them enough.

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

I have found that most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

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.

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."

It's never too late to have a happy childhood.

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.

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.

Every day we are offered new means for learning and growing in love.

A happy woman is one who has no cares at all a cheerful woman is one who has cares but doesn't let them get her down.

Each person on this planet is inherently intrinsically capable of attaining "dizzying heights" of happiness and fulfillment.

Do not waste time bothering whether you "love" your neighbor act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone you will presently come to love him.

Joys divided are increased.

The secret of happiness is this: Let your interests be as wide as possible and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

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

It is the happiness that comes from within that is lasting and fulfilling.

The first step towards true enlightenment is to lighten up on yourself.

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

Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to let others know of their gladness.

Cheerfulness is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.

When we connect with ourselves in love we can connect with others and the planet in love.

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

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.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

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

Happiness and love are just a choice away.

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

Forget the resolutions. Forget control and discipline . . . too much work. Instead try experimenting. Go in search of something to fall in love with. . . something about yourself your career your spouse.

Life's better when it's fun. Boy that's deep isn't it?

God’s at work, lightening every load!

You have to believe in happiness or happiness never comes.

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.

Man unlike the animal has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.

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.

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

Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.

Even if we can't be happy we must always be cheerful.

Love is a force that connects us to every strand of the universe an unconditional state that characterizes human nature a form of knowledge that is always there for us if only we can open ourselves to it.

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.

A good belly laugh is like taking your liver for a horseback ride.

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

Find something you love to do and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Better to be happy than wise.

Laughter is the brush that sweeps away the cobwebs of the heart.

Love is how you stay alive even after you are gone.