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Quotes About Joy

If you are good life is good.
~ Roald Dahl, Matilda
One does not laugh because one is happy; one is happy because one laughs.
~ Mireille Guiliano
In the wise words of Mahatma Gandhi: have a sense of humor.
~ Drew Chadwick
Have a sense of humor to break the tension in times of great toil.
~ Colin Powell
Humor is the great thing, the saving thing after all. The minute it crops up, all our hardnesses yield, all our irritations, and resentments flit away, and a sunny spirit takes their place.
~ Mark Twain
The first prerequisite of an advanced being is a sense of humor.
~ Richard Bach
Kids. You gotta love them. I adore children. A little salt, a squeeze of lemon--perfect.
~ Jim Butcher, Storm Front
Find 100 reasons to laugh. You are bound to feel better, you will cope with problems more effectively and people will enjoy being around you. Besides unhappiness, what do you have to lose?
~ Steve Goodier
The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow.
~ Mark Twain
You gotta make your own fun. That's right, listen to that mother of two, she knows what I'm talking about.
~ Dave Attell
It's funny - there's nothing that stops you laughing like the sight of other people laughing about something else.
~ Michael Frayn
Humor is the best means of surviving in a difficult world.
~ Ogden Nash
Gayety is to good-humor as perfumes to vegetable fragrance: the one overpowers weak spirits; the other recreates and revives them.
~ Samuel Johnson
I've always been attracted to humor and funny people in general. It's a joy to make people laugh, but it's not as fun as laughing yourself.
~ Jennifer Garner
Mirth is God's medicine.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Katsa and Po were trying to drown each other and, judging from their hoots of laughter, enjoying it immensely.
~ Kristin Cashore, Bitterblue
Humor is the fastest, fleetest way of giving -it can change pain to joy in a mere millisecond.
~ Stephen G. Post
Humor (is) intrinsitc to Christianity.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
I feel like humor is the answer to everything. If you have a little bit of humor in the shaker and you can sprinkle that on, that's your answer.
~ Jerry Seinfeld
An adequate share of humor and laughter represents an essential part of the diet of the healthy person.
~ Norman Cousins
His smile was so wide he'd have had to break it into sections to fit it through a doorway
~ Jerry Spinelli, Maniac Magee
I have always tried to use humor to "help ever" and "hurt never," for I find that to laugh is like swallowing a secret that Santa Claus farted.
~ David Cross
Things can be funny only when we are in fun. When we're 'dead earnest,' humor is the only thing that is dead.
~ Flip Wilson
[I]t is well to have as many holds upon happiness as possible.
~ Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey