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I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?

Jean Kerr


Category: Joy and Sadness

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1. "Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been."

Mark Twain, "Following the Equator"


2. "The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover."

Joseph Addison, "Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories..."

Other categories: Friendship and Hostility


3. "Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow."

Honoré De Balzac

Other categories: Sorrow and Nostalgia


4. "For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?"

Jane Austen, "Pride and Prejudice"

Other categories: Life and Death


5. "It's such an act of optimism to get through a day and enjoy it and laugh and do all that without thinking about death. What spirit human beings have!"

Gilda Radner

Other categories: Optimism and Hope


6. "The most wasted day of all is that during which we have not laughed."

Sébastien-Roch Nicolas de Chamfort


7. "In summer, the song sings itself."

William Carlos Williams

Other categories: Nature and Animals


8. "Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to live and to work and to play and to look up at the stars."

Henry Van Dyke

Other categories: Life and Death


9. "For every joy there is a price to be paid."

Egyptian proverb, (from ancient temple)


10. "Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadows."

Helen Keller


11. "Never trust the man who tells you all his troubles but keeps from you all his joys."

Jewish proverb

Other categories: Trust


12. "Sorrow is the child of too much joy."

Chinese proverb

Other categories: Sorrow and Nostalgia


13. "Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow."

Swedish proverb

Other categories: Sorrow and Nostalgia


14. "The woman cries before the wedding and the man after."

Polish proverb

Other categories: Marriage -:- Woman and Man


15. "A good laugh is sunshine in the house."

William Makepeace Thackeray


16. "Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion."

Arthur Koestler

Other categories: Dreams and Desires


17. "Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy."

Leo Buscaglia

Other categories: Sorrow and Nostalgia


18. "Beginnings are usually scary and endings are usually sad, but it's the middle that counts. You have to remember this when you find yourself at the beginning."

Sandra Bullock

Other categories: Various


19. "No one can feel as helpless as the owner of a sick goldfish."

Kin Hubbard

Other categories: Various


20. "There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child."

Erma Bombeck

Other categories: Youth and Age


21. "If someone is too tired to give you a smile, leave one of your own, because no one needs a smile as much as those who have none to give."

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22. "A smile is the lighting system of the face, the cooling system of the head and the heating system of the heart."

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23. "Worry is interest paid on a trouble before it is due."

William Ralph Inge (Dean Inge)


24. "Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened."

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Other categories: Pain and Tears


25. "A smile is a curve that sets things straight."

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Other categories: Various


26. "The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live."

Ayn Rand

Other categories: Life and Death -:- Manners and Ethics


27. "A happy person is one whose arithmetic is at its best when they is counting their blessings."

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Other categories: Happiness


28. "Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves."

Emily Brontë

Other categories: Sorrow and Nostalgia


29. "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot."

Walter Bagehot

Other categories: Success and Fame


30. "You are never fully dressed until you wear a smile."

Martin Charnin


31. "Heaven is where the police are British, the mechanics German, the cooks are French, the lovers Italian, and all is organize by the Swiss."

Eliane Kirchner

Other categories: Happiness


32. "A smile on your face can be felt on anothers heart."

Rhonda Marlow


33. "Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel."

Horace Walpole

Other categories: Life and Death


34. "Don't grieve that your roses have thorns. Rejoice instead that your thorns have roses."

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35. "Whoever enjoys his life is doing the Creator's will."

Jewish proverb

Other categories: God and Religion


36. "Worry is interest paid in advance for a debt you may never owe."

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37. "Sorrow looks back, worry looks around, faith looks up."

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Other categories: Sorrow and Nostalgia


38. "There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second."

Logan Pearsall Smith, "Afterthoughts"

Other categories: Life and Death


39. "Joy and sorrow are next-door neighbours."

English proverb

Other categories: Sorrow and Nostalgia


40. "I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy."

Rabindranath Tagore

Other categories: Life and Death


41. "Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow. It's what sunflowers do."

Helen Keller


42. "Illusion is the first of all pleasures."

Oscar Wilde


43. "There is no hope of joy except in human relations."

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Other categories: Human


44. "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh."

George Bernard Shaw, "The Doctor's Dilemma"

Other categories: Life and Death -:- Wit and Humor


45. "The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure much."

William Hazlitt

Other categories: Life and Death


46. "A thing is only completely our own when it is a thing of joy to us."

Rabindranath Tagore


47. "You shall have joy, or you shall have power, said God; you shall not have both."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Other categories: Power and Weakness


48. "Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death."

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Other categories: Oration and Silence


49. "It is sad not to be loved, but it is much sadder not to be able to love."

Miguel de Unamuno

Other categories: Love


50. "When you meet a stranger, give them a smile. It may be the only sunshine they see all day."

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