Lighten Quotes
Why should we refuse the happiness this hour gives us because some other hour might take it away?
Humor has great power to heal on an emotional level. You can't hold anger you can't hold fear you can't hold hurt while you're laughing.
Humor enables one to live in the midst of tragic events without becoming a tragic figure.
Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
As you express joy you draw it out of those you meet creating joyful people and joyful events. The greater the joy you express the more joy you experience.
When we feel joyful euphoric happy we are more open to life more capable of seeing things clearly and handling daily tensions.
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.
Although a lot can be learned from adversity most of the same lessons can be learned through laughter and joy.
So when you're lonely or sad or bad or blue remember where laughter's hiding . . . it's hiding inside of YOU!
In every job relationship or life situation there is inevitably some turbulence. Learn to laugh at it. It is part of what you do and who you are
Laughter puts your brain your central nervous system and your whole being into a state of free play.
It has always seemed to me that hearty laughter is a good way to jog internally without having to go outdoors.
Shared laughter is like throwing open the shutters in a gloomy room and letting in fresh air and sunshine.
A good laugh helps us recognize how ridiculous it is to get excited about matters that are often trivial. . . .
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.
Play keeps us vital and alive. It gives us an enthusiasm for life that is irreplaceable. Without it life just doesn't taste good.
Every time a man smiles and much more when he laughs it adds something to his fragment of life.
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.
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.
If you have made another person on this earth smile your life has been worthwhile.
It is only through love that we can attain to communion with God. All living knowledge of God rest upon this foundation: that we experience Him in our lives as Will-to-love.
This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love the more they give the more they possess.
The issue is not so much being loved but being loving which leads to the same wonderful feeling you experience when someone loves you.
Everybody forgets the basic thing: people are not going to love you unless you love them.
Nine times out of ten when you extend your arms to someone they will step in because basically they need precisely what you need.
When we connect with ourselves in love we can connect with others and the planet in love.
In the coldest February as in every other month in every other year the best thing to hold on to in this world is each other.
True love comes quietly without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells get your ears checked.
Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident a tight girdle a higher tax bracket or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.
Every single one of us can do things that no one else can do can love things that no one else can love . . . We are like violins. We can be used for doorstops or we can make music.
