Lighten Quotes

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.

Love . . . binds everything together in perfect harmony.

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.

When one door of happiness closes another opens but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.

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

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.

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."

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Happiness and love are just a choice away.

The essence of love is kindness.

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.

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

Ultimately love is everything.

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.

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

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

Joy is not in things it is in us.

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

Ultimately love is self-approval.

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.

Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.

Laughter is a gift everyone should open.

It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory and in creative action that man finds his supreme joy.

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

Shared laughter is love made audible.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

In the true man there is a child concealed - who wants to play.

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

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

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

Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

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.

When we can laugh through our tears we are being given a powerful message. Things may be bad but they cannot be all that bad.

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.

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