“There are still blue skies and rainbows and days bathed in sunlight.
There are colorful shade trees filled with sweet bird songs.
And there are wishing stars in the heavens as well as angels in God's service.
So lift up your eyes.
Refuse to be unhappy.”
Source: Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
“There are many roads in this world that will guide you to pleasurable, fun, and exciting destinations that do not end in any form of lasting happiness. So before you step on an enticing path, figure out where it leads.”
Source: Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
“Beauty is not love.
Money is not happiness.
Fame is not friendship.”
Source: Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year
“Friends are the artists who paint happy lips on your face.”
Source: Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
“Be nice. Be good. Be happy.
If people everywhere were to keep to this simple creed, there'd be few problems left in the world to fret about.”
Source: Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
“Imagined happiness is still happiness.”
Source: The Tarishe Curse
“Laugh as if it's funny, embrace as if it's love, and smile anyway.”
Source: Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
“Sometimes happiness quietly curls up in your heart just to snuggle.”
Source: Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year
“Every day grants us opportunities to do good. Take advantage of them. Do good. Be happy.”
Source: Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year
“Give away kindness. Happiness will repay you.”
Source: Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year
“We daydream to heal, to hope, to be happier. It is mental and emotional therapy. Daydreams are experiences both imagined and felt, which makes them very real to the mind and the heart. So relax. Smile. Daydream.”
Source: Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year
“Laugh and smile for no reason at all. Giggle grins are a magnet for happiness.”
Source: Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
“A smile is a light that sets your inner self aglow, letting others know you’re home.”
Source: Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
“Beware of giggle grins; they are highly contagious.”
“I love happy people; they’re like smile magnets.”
Source: Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
“Be happy.
Be happy for no reason at all.
Believe it or not, you have the ability and free agency to make that choice.”
“I can and will improve the world.
I will smile, show kindness, and be grateful.
I refuse to be unhappy.”
Source: Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
“I can't force your lips to smile, but I can show them how easily mine do.”
Source: Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
“When kindhearted people smile, demons shrink and turn away as if tormented by the gesture. But when those beautiful smiles are made to fade, every awful creature in the world stands surer. So do yourself and mankind a favor and smile BIG whether you feel like it or not.”
Source: Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
“Kisses are a means to plant on another's lips a smile glossed with happiness.”
Source: Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
“The power of a smile is such that even drawing a happy face on a piece of paper makes your lips turn up.”
Source: Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
“I've a habit of placing a happy-face or a frowny-face on my calendar, depending on what kind of day I've had. Often I slap a droopy circle in the box, discouraged by the things I failed to accomplish and the unpleasant encounters endured. But then, invariably, a wise muse stops to ask me these three questions:
Did your children let you hug them today? Yes.
Did you do a kind deed for someone? Anyone? Yes.
Did God forsake you today? No.
Then, my dear, despite your challenges, it was a good day after all.
Standing corrected, I twist that frowny-face upside down and smile.”
Source: Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
“Happiness branches from the tree of kindness, abounding with the fruit of sweet smiles.”
Source: Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
“Ha ha ha ha!
Tee-hee-hee!
Mwa-ha mwa-ha!
Kee kee kee!
Ho ho ho ho!
Haw-hee-haw!
Heh heh heh heh!
Gah guffaw!
Hoo hoo hoo hoo!
Hoi hoi-eee!
Ba ha ha ha!
Tsee tsee tsee!
Giggle, titter,
snicker, crow,
laughter makes
my 'happy' grow!”
Source: Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
“We forget that the sweetest joys are found in the simplest acts: hugs, laughter, quiet observation, basic movements, holding hands, pleasant music, shared stories, a listening ear, an unhurried visit, and selfless service. It is sad we forget a truth so elementary.”
Source: Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
“The bitterest hardships, the most daunting trials; none of these are burdens if it means being with you.”
Source: Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
“Too often we let others stamp a price tag on us, and we accept their appraisal of our worth, forgetting we are in fact priceless.”
Source: Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
“Alas, impatience is but another form of unhappiness. It is true, it is true. I have never met a happy impatient person.”
Source: Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
“Happiness is never in a rush. If you move too fast, you leave it behind.”
Source: Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
“Happiness found me alone one day and took me by the hand.
He showed me how the sun gave out its warmth across the land.
Sadness found me content and smiling upward at the sun.
He talked of droughts and blindness and what burning rays had done.
Happiness found me alone again and pointed to the sky.
He showed me how the storms created rainbows way up high.
Sadness found me intrigued and took me to the rainbow’s end.
He showed me how it disappeared to ne’er return again.
Happiness found me alone and taught me how to sing a song.
He sang a dozen melodies as I chirped right along.
Sadness found me singing out and covered up his ears.
He said the noise was deafening, and wished he couldn’t hear.
Happiness found me alone and gave me seven coins of gold.
He showed me many fancy things that merchants often sold.
Sadness found me admiring the pretty things I’d bought.
He pointed out my empty purse and money I had not.
Happiness found me alone and helped me talk to someone new.
He called the boy my friend and said that I was his friend too.
Sadness found me together with my kind, attentive friend.
He whispered of betrayal and how broken hearts don’t mend.
Happiness found me alone and held me tight in his embrace.
He whispered kindness in my ear and kissed me on the face.
Sadness found me with Happiness but before he spoke at all,
I told him he’d have better luck at talking to the wall.”
Source: Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
“You will realize one day that all the money in the world cannot buy you happiness. Nor can it make you a person of good character.”
Source: Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
“The actual secret to success: Be a better friend today than you were yesterday.”
Source: Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
“Love. Gratitude. Humility. Service.
Do these look familiar?
Combined, they are the recipe for happiness.”
Source: Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year
“Laughter is magic that dispenses clouds and creates sunshine in the soul.”
Source: Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
“Life isn't all grand, but it isn't all miserable either. There's both sweet and sour in every day. So why focus on the ugly when you can gaze at what's beautiful? Concentrate on the good.”
Source: Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
“There would be no cloud-nine days without rock-bottom moments left below.”
Source: Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
“It's not my job to make you happy. It's your job to learn that only those who quit selfishly seeking their own happiness find it.”
Source: Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
“Happiness isn't reserved for privileged individuals. It is a state of mind that can neither be bought nor stolen nor traded; it is a liberty available to anyone.”
Source: Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
“The world seems to want us to be sad and angry because bad things frequently happen. But I say we should feel the opposite. We should be happy and cheerful because good things happen. We should be delighted to see the sun rise and stars glow and rainbows color stormy skies. We should savor every simple breath and eat each meal with gratitude. We should slumber in sweet dreams and relish moments of laughter and love. We should take more notice of the joys and kindnesses that do exist, still dictating the actions of millions of good people all over the world. Life is filled with pleasant moments, not just grief. We should be happy because this is true.”
Source: Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
“When I count my blessings, I find you in every one.”
Source: Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
“Have you noticed how children never bypass a puddle of water, but jump, splash, and slosh right through it? That's because they know an important truth: Life was meant to be lived; puddles were meant to be experienced.”
Source: Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
“Giddy is a grin and giggles and that glint of goofiness in your gaze.”
Source: Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
“Let the giggles fill your mouth because nothing tastes as sweet as laughter.”
Source: Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
“If you want to be happy tomorrow, pay close attention to your choices today. Your future happiness depends on the things you do now.”
Source: Hope Evermore: Quotes, Verse, & Spiritual Inspiration for Every Day of the Year
“My job is to love you, pray for you, support and encourage you. Your job is to solve your own problems and choose your own happiness.”
Source: Hope Evermore: Quotes, Verse, & Spiritual Inspiration for Every Day of the Year
“Try new hobbies. Develop new interests. Pursue new experiences. When you expand your interests, you increase your opportunities for happiness.”
Source: Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year
“The secret to happiness is elusive because it is a paradoxical truth. To gain happiness, you must first cease pursuing it. Things perceived to provide happiness are like shiny, pretty bubbles that lure us this way and that way, chasing after their glossy buoyancy. But once they are handled, they “pop”—empty—vanishing along with the hope that happiness could ever be captured. Happiness cannot be caught or won or purchased or even handled. Happiness simply forms like a rainbow in the kindest and most grateful hearts.”
Source: Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
“Success, even happiness, is not about doing what is easy, it is about doing what is right… especially when it is not easy.”
Source: Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year
“Happiness isn't complicated. It is a humble state of gratitude for simple pleasures, tender mercies, recognized blessings, and inherent beauty.”
Source: Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
“Happiness has two hands: one with strength for lifting up heavy hearts and a gentle hand for tickling.”
Source: Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year