How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it. -- Marcus Aurelius
Happiness is good health and a bad memory. -- Ingrid Bergman
Laughter is the shortest distance between two people. -- Victor Borge
Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy. -- Leo Buscaglia
Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action. -- Benjamin Disraeli
Whoever is happy will make others happy too. -- Anne Frank
Consciously or unconsciously, every one of us does render some service or other. If we cultivate the habit of doing this service deliberately1, our desire for service will steadily2 grow stronger, and will make, not only our own happiness, but that of the world at large. -- Gandhi
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination. -- Roy Goodman
People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be. -- Abraham Lincoln
Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day listening to the murmur3 of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is hardly a waste of time. -- Sir J. Lubbock
Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart, don t know how to laugh either. -- Golda Meir
Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so. -- John Stuart Mill
The truth is, laughter always sounds more perfect than weeping. Laughter flows in a violent riff and is effortlessly melodic4. Weeping is often fought, choked, half strangled, or surrendered to with humiliation5. -- Anne Rice, Taltos
Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains6 a mad and lamentable7 experience. -- George Santayana
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring. -- George Santayana
Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have. -- Rabbi H. Schachtel, The Real Enjoyment8 of Living
Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter. -- Mark Twain
Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are. -- Henry Van Dyke
