How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it. -- Marcus AureliusHappiness is good health and a bad memory. -- Ingrid BergmanLaughter is the shortest distance between two people. -- Victor BorgeWorry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy. -- Leo BuscagliaAction may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action. -- Benjamin DisraeliWhoever is happy will make others happy too. -- Anne FrankConsciously 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. -- GandhiRemember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination. -- Roy GoodmanPeople are just as happy as they make up their minds to be. -- Abraham LincolnRest 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. LubbockThose who do not know how to weep with their whole heart, don't know how to laugh either. -- Golda MeirAsk yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so. -- John Stuart MillThe 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, TaltosHappiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experience. -- George SantayanaTo be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring. -- George SantayanaHappiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have. -- Rabbi H. Schachtel, The Real Enjoyment of LivingPoetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds. -- Percy Bysshe ShelleyThe human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter. -- Mark TwainHappiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are. -- Henry Van Dyke