Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. -- Mother Teresa

"A good laugh is sunshine in a house."
-- Thackeray

Joy can be real only if people look on their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness -- Leo Tolstoy

"Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy you must have somebody to divide it with." -- Mark Twain Whoever is happy will make others happy, too. -- Mark Twain

"I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances."
-- Martha Washington

"It isn't the great big pleasures that count the most; it's making a great deal out of the little ones."
-- Jean Webster (1876-1916)

Unless we think of others and do something for them, we miss one of the greatest sources of happiness.
-- Ray Lyman Wilbur

"'Tis easy enough to be pleasant,
When life flows along like a song;
But the man worth while is the one who will smile
When everything goes dead wrong.
-- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

The only truly happy man is always a fighting optimist. Optimism includes not only altruism but also social responsibility, social courage and objectivity.
-- W. Beran Wolfe

To feel that one has a place in life solves half the problem of contentment.
-- George E. Woodberry (1855-1930)

Well-being is attained little by little, and nevertheless is no little thing itself.
-- Zeno of Elea (150-70 BC)

MISCELLANEOUS HAPPY THOUGHTS

• The most important thing that you wear is the expression on your face.
• It takes 26 muscles to smile, and 62 muscles to frown...
• Smiling is contagious...