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Happiness Quotes - Page 40

The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even - if you will - eccentricity. That is, something that can't be feigned, faked, imitated; something even a seasoned imposter couldn't be happy with.

Joseph Brodsky's commencement address at Williams College (1984), as quoted in Robert Inchausti "Thinking through Thomas Merton: Contemplation for Contemporary Times" (p. 110), 2014.

Blessed are they who know how to shine on one's gloom with their cheer.

"The Original Plymouth Pulpit: Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn".

Remember that not to be happy is not to be grateful.

Elizabeth Carter, Montagu Pennington (1807). “Memoirs of the Life of Mrs. Elizabeth Carter,: with a new edition of her poems, some of which have never appeared before; to which are added, some miscellaneous essays in prose, together with her notes on the Bible, and answers to objections concerning the Christian religion”, p.465

Laughter can bring a new perspective.

"Family Survival". Interview with Arthur Holmberg, americanrepertorytheater.org.

Laughter has no foreign accent.

Paul B. Lowney (1997). “Toads”, Crown & Lurie Pub