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
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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2007, collected and compiled by Kazimierz Matan
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