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Happiness/Sadness

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

Consciously or unconsciously, every one of us does render some service or other. If we cultivate the habit of doing this service deliberately, our desire for service will steadily 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 murmur 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 melodic. Weeping is often fought, choked, half strangled, or surrendered to with humiliation.
-- Anne Rice, Taltos

Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable 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 Enjoyment 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




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