Most people would rather be certain they’re miserable than risk being happy.

The things you do for yourself are gone when you are gone, but the things you do for others remain as your legacy.

What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.

Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Please think about your legacy because you are writing it every day.

The only thing you take with you when you’re gone is what you leave behind.

The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.

Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart don’t know how to laugh either.

No matter what your heartache may be, laughing helps you forget it for a few seconds.

If you don’t learn to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you’re old.

With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.

Trouble knocked at the door, but, hearing laughter, hurried away.

When you realize how perfect everything is you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky.

From there to here, from here to there, funny things are everywhere.

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.

You grow up the day you have your first real laugh – at yourself.

As soon as you have made a thought, laugh at it.

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.