1. Every tear has a smile behind it.-Iranian (on adversity)
2. Happiness is a state of mind.-unknown
3. Happiness isn’t a goal, it’s a by-Eleanor Roosevelt
4. Happy is as happy does.-unknown
5. He who laughs last, laughs best.-Aesop
6. If you don’t laugh, you’ll cry.-unknown
7. Out of the fullness of the heart, the mouth speaks.-Chaucer
8. People should take time to be happy.-Grandma Moses
9. Sorrow doesn’t kill, reckless joy does. -Yoruba (West African (on joy and sorrow)
10. Sorrow is to the soul, as worm is to wood.-Turkish (on joy and sorrow)
11. The more the merrier.-John Heywood
12. The person who gets stuck on petty happiness, will not attain great happiness.-Tibetan (on joy and sorrow)
13. Virtue and happiness are mother and daughter.-Benjamin Franklin
14. They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.-Tomm Bodett
15. The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.-Nicolas Chamfort
16. Laughter is wine for the soul – laughter soft, or loud and deep, tinged through with seriousness – the hilarious declaration made by man that life is worth living.-Sean O’Casey
17. To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.-Mark Twain
18. Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place. It pulls up the rotten roots, so that new roots hidden beneath have room to grow.-Rumi
19. Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.-Marianne Williamson
20. Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.-Joseph Campbell
21. We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.-Buddha
22. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.-Christopher McCandless
23. Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.-Greg Anderson
24. The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.-Jim Rohn
25. I define joy as a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace – a connection to what matters.-Oprah Winfrey
26. When you wish someone joy, you wish them peace, love, prosperity, happiness – all the good things.-Maya Angelou
27. We find greatest joy, not in getting, but in expressing what we are… Men do not really live for honors or for pay; their gladness is not the taking and holding, but in doing, the striving, the building, the living. It is a higher joy to teach than to be taught.-RJ Baughan
28. If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come.-Chinese Proverb
29. The pleasantest things in the world are pleasant thoughts: and the great art of life is to have as many of them as possible.-Montaigne