“Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.”

“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”

“Rules for Happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.”

“The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.”

“Children are happy because they don’t have a file in their minds called ‘All the Things That Could Go Wrong.’”

“Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.”

“One must believe in the possibility of happiness in order to be happy, and I now believe in it. Let the dead bury the dead, but while I’m alive, I must live and be happy.”

“Happiness is the settling of the soul into its most appropriate spot.”

“Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it.”

<img alt="" src="https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/f2fa02d18d0e613db78ae63b2cb49c2b?s=50&amp;r=g" height="50" width="50" srcset="https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/f2fa02d18d0e613db78ae63b2cb49c2b?s=100&amp;r=g 2x">At this time of year, summer should be slowly rising up to meet us, the sun should start shining and we should all be <a title="7 Benefits of Smiling and Laughing that You Didn’t Know about" href="https://www.lifehack.org/articles/communication/7-benefits-smiling-and-laughing.html" dir="ltr">smiling a little more brightly</a>.&nbsp;If the blue skies and good vibes haven’t quite crept their way to your part of the world yet, worry not. These 20 thought-provoking, smile-invoking quotes should surely help to warm your heart and bring a little <a title="Three Thoughts to Make You Instantly Happier" href="https://www.lifehack.org/articles/communication/three-thoughts-to-make-you-instantly-happier.html" dir="ltr">joy and happiness</a> into your life.<BLOCKQUOTE>“Count your age <a title="Why It’s Hard to Make Friends, and What to Do About It" href="https://www.lifehack.org/articles/communication/why-its-hard-make-friends-and-what-about.html" dir="ltr">by friends</a>, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.” 
–&nbsp;John Lennon</BLOCKQUOTE><BLOCKQUOTE>“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.” 
–&nbsp;J.R.R. Tolkien</BLOCKQUOTE><img alt="quote-J.-R.-R.-Tolkien-if-more-of-us-valued-food-and-43218" src="https://cdn.lifehack.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/quote-J.-R.-R.-Tolkien-if-more-of-us-valued-food-and-43218.png" width="600" height="337"><BLOCKQUOTE>“Rules for Happiness:&nbsp;something to do,&nbsp;someone to love,&nbsp;something to hope for.” 
–&nbsp;Immanuel Kant</BLOCKQUOTE><img alt="quote-Immanuel-Kant-rules-for-happiness-something-to-do-someone-106161" src="https://cdn.lifehack.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/quote-Immanuel-Kant-rules-for-happiness-something-to-do-someone-106161.png" width="600" height="307"><BLOCKQUOTE>“The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.” 
–&nbsp;Oprah Winfrey</BLOCKQUOTE><img alt="quote-Oprah-Winfrey-the-more-you-praise-and-celebrate-your-203" src="https://cdn.lifehack.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/quote-Oprah-Winfrey-the-more-you-praise-and-celebrate-your-203.png" width="600" height="337"><BLOCKQUOTE>“The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.” 
–&nbsp;Mark Twain</BLOCKQUOTE><img alt="quote-Mark-Twain-the-best-way-to-cheer-yourself-up-100617_1" src="https://cdn.lifehack.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/quote-Mark-Twain-the-best-way-to-cheer-yourself-up-100617_1.png" width="600" height="307"><BLOCKQUOTE>“Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. ” 
–&nbsp;Mother Teresa</BLOCKQUOTE><img alt="quote-Mother-Teresa-spread-love-everywhere-you-go-let-no-88434" src="https://cdn.lifehack.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/quote-Mother-Teresa-spread-love-everywhere-you-go-let-no-88434.png" width="600" height="337"><BLOCKQUOTE>“Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.” 
–&nbsp;Martin Luther King, Jr.</BLOCKQUOTE><BLOCKQUOTE>“With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world.&nbsp;Be cheerful.&nbsp;Strive to be happy.” 
–&nbsp;Max Ehrmann</BLOCKQUOTE><BLOCKQUOTE>“When someone else’s happiness is your happiness, that’s love” 
Lana Del Ray</BLOCKQUOTE><BLOCKQUOTE>“It’s a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy. ” 
–&nbsp;Lucille Ball</BLOCKQUOTE><img alt="quote-Lucille-Ball-its-a-helluva-start-being-able-to-5470" src="https://cdn.lifehack.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/quote-Lucille-Ball-its-a-helluva-start-being-able-to-5470.png" width="600" height="307"><BLOCKQUOTE>“I think happiness is what makes you pretty. Period. Happy people are beautiful. They become like a mirror and they reflect that happiness.” 
–&nbsp;Drew Barrymore</BLOCKQUOTE><BLOCKQUOTE>“Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.” 
–Charles Dickens</BLOCKQUOTE><BLOCKQUOTE>“Children are happy because they don’t have a file in their minds called ‘All the Things That Could Go Wrong.’” 
–&nbsp;Marianne Williamson</BLOCKQUOTE><BLOCKQUOTE>“I am a happy camper so I guess I’m doing something right. Happiness is like a butterfly; the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder.” 
–&nbsp;Henry David Thoreau</BLOCKQUOTE><BLOCKQUOTE>“Happiness is perfume, you can’t pour it on somebody else without getting a few drops on yourself.” 
–&nbsp;James Van Der Zee</BLOCKQUOTE><img alt="quote-James-Van-Der-Zee-happiness-is-perfume-you-cant-pour-it-37676" src="https://cdn.lifehack.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/quote-James-Van-Der-Zee-happiness-is-perfume-you-cant-pour-it-37676.png" width="600" height="337"><BLOCKQUOTE>“Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.” 
–&nbsp;Boethius</BLOCKQUOTE><BLOCKQUOTE>“One must believe in the possibility of happiness in order to be happy, and I now believe in it. Let the dead bury the dead, but while I’m alive, I must live and be happy.” 
–Leo Tolstoy</BLOCKQUOTE><BLOCKQUOTE>“Happiness is the settling of the soul into its most appropriate spot.” 
–&nbsp;Aristotle</BLOCKQUOTE><BLOCKQUOTE>“Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it.” 
– Groucho Marx</BLOCKQUOTE><img alt="quote-Groucho-Marx-i-not-events-have-the-power-to-89302" src="https://cdn.lifehack.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/quote-Groucho-Marx-i-not-events-have-the-power-to-89302.png" width="600" height="456"><BLOCKQUOTE>“I’ve got nothing to do today but smile.” 
–&nbsp;Paul Simon</BLOCKQUOTE><BLOCKQUOTE>“Who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?” 
–&nbsp;Hunter S. Thompson”</BLOCKQUOTE><BLOCKQUOTE>“What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life’s pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.” 
–&nbsp;Joseph Addison</BLOCKQUOTE><img alt="quote-Joseph-Addison-what-sunshine-is-to-flowers-smiles-are-90499" src="https://cdn.lifehack.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/quote-Joseph-Addison-what-sunshine-is-to-flowers-smiles-are-90499.jpg" width="600" height="416">I talk a lot to myself. It helps me to keep my concentration on the activity on hand, makes me focus more on my studies, and gives me some pretty brilliant ideas while chattering to myself; more importantly, I produce better works. For example, right now, as I am typing, I am constantly mumbling to myself. Do you talk to yourself? Don’t get embarrassed admitting it because science has discovered that those who talk to themselves are actually geniuses… and not crazy!<h2>Research Background</h2>Psychologist-researcher Gary Lupyan conducted an experiment where 20 volunteers were shown objects, in a supermarket, and were asked to remember them. Half of them were told to repeat the objects, for example, banana, and the other half remained silent. In the end, the result shown that self-directed speech aided people to find the objects faster, by 50 to 100 milliseconds, compared to the silent ones.	<BLOCKQUOTE>“I’ll often mutter to myself when searching for something in the refrigerator or the supermarket shelves,” said Gary Lupyan.</BLOCKQUOTE>This personal experience actually made him conduct this experiment. Lupyan, together with another psychologist, Daniel Swigley, came up with the outcomes that those to talk to oneself are geniuses. Here are the reasons:	<h2>It&nbsp;stimulates your memory</h2>When you are talking to yourself, your sensory mechanism gets activated. It gets easier on your memory since you can visualize the word, and you can act accordingly.[1]<h2>It helps&nbsp;stay focused</h2>When you are saying it loud, you stay focused on your task,[2] and it helps you recognise that stuff immediately. Of course, this only helps if you know what the object you are searching looks like. For example, a banana is yellow in colour, and you know how a banana looks like. So when you are saying it loud, your brain immediately pictures the image on your mind. But if you don’t know what banana looks like, then there is no effect of saying it loud.	<h2>It helps you clarify&nbsp;your thoughts</h2>Every one of us tends to have various types of thoughts. Most make sense, while the others don’t. Suppose you are furious at someone and you feel like killing that person. Now for this issue you won’t run to a therapist, will you? No, what you do is lock yourself in a room and mutter to yourself. You are letting go off the anger by talking to yourself, the pros and cons of killing that person, and eventually you calm down. This is a silly thought that you have and are unable to share it with any other person. Psychologist Linda Sapadin said,[3]<BLOCKQUOTE>“It helps you clarify your thoughts, tend to what’s important and firm up any decisions you are contemplating.”</BLOCKQUOTE>

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At this time of year, summer should be slowly rising up to meet us, the sun should start shining and we should all be <a href="https://www.lifehack.org/articles/communication/7-benefits-smiling-and-laughing.html">smiling a little more brightly </a>. If the blue skies and good vibes haven’t quite crept their way to your part of the world yet, worry not. These 20 thought-provoking, smile-invoking quotes should surely help to warm your heart and bring a little <a href="https://www.lifehack.org/articles/communication/three-thoughts-to-make-you-instantly-happier.html">joy and happiness </a>into your life.

“Count your age <a href="https://www.lifehack.org/articles/communication/why-its-hard-make-friends-and-what-about.html">by friends </a>, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.” – John Lennon

“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.” – J.R.R. Tolkien

“Rules for Happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.” – Immanuel Kant

“The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.” – Oprah Winfrey

“The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.” – Mark Twain

“Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. ” – Mother Teresa

“Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

“With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.” – Max Ehrmann

“When someone else’s happiness is your happiness, that’s love” Lana Del Ray

“It’s a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy. ” – Lucille Ball

“I think happiness is what makes you pretty. Period. Happy people are beautiful. They become like a mirror and they reflect that happiness.” – Drew Barrymore

“Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.” –Charles Dickens

“Children are happy because they don’t have a file in their minds called ‘All the Things That Could Go Wrong.’” – Marianne Williamson

“I am a happy camper so I guess I’m doing something right. Happiness is like a butterfly; the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder.” – Henry David Thoreau

“Happiness is perfume, you can’t pour it on somebody else without getting a few drops on yourself.” – James Van Der Zee

“Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.” – Boethius

“One must believe in the possibility of happiness in order to be happy, and I now believe in it. Let the dead bury the dead, but while I’m alive, I must live and be happy.” –Leo Tolstoy

“Happiness is the settling of the soul into its most appropriate spot.” – Aristotle

“Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it.” – Groucho Marx

“I’ve got nothing to do today but smile.” – Paul Simon

“Who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?” – Hunter S. Thompson”

“What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life’s pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.” – Joseph Addison

I talk a lot to myself. It helps me to keep my concentration on the activity on hand, makes me focus more on my studies, and gives me some pretty brilliant ideas while chattering to myself; more importantly, I produce better works. For example, right now, as I am typing, I am constantly mumbling to myself. Do you talk to yourself? Don’t get embarrassed admitting it because science has discovered that those who talk to themselves are actually geniuses… and not crazy!

Psychologist-researcher Gary Lupyan conducted an experiment where 20 volunteers were shown objects, in a supermarket, and were asked to remember them. Half of them were told to repeat the objects, for example, banana, and the other half remained silent. In the end, the result shown that self-directed speech aided people to find the objects faster, by 50 to 100 milliseconds, compared to the silent ones.

“I’ll often mutter to myself when searching for something in the refrigerator or the supermarket shelves,” said Gary Lupyan.

This personal experience actually made him conduct this experiment. Lupyan, together with another psychologist, Daniel Swigley, came up with the outcomes that those to talk to oneself are geniuses. Here are the reasons:

When you are talking to yourself, your sensory mechanism gets activated. It gets easier on your memory since you can visualize the word, and you can act accordingly.[1]

When you are saying it loud, you stay focused on your task,[2] and it helps you recognise that stuff immediately. Of course, this only helps if you know what the object you are searching looks like. For example, a banana is yellow in colour, and you know how a banana looks like. So when you are saying it loud, your brain immediately pictures the image on your mind. But if you don’t know what banana looks like, then there is no effect of saying it loud.

Every one of us tends to have various types of thoughts. Most make sense, while the others don’t. Suppose you are furious at someone and you feel like killing that person. Now for this issue you won’t run to a therapist, will you? No, what you do is lock yourself in a room and mutter to yourself. You are letting go off the anger by talking to yourself, the pros and cons of killing that person, and eventually you calm down. This is a silly thought that you have and are unable to share it with any other person. Psychologist Linda Sapadin said,[3]

“It helps you clarify your thoughts, tend to what’s important and firm up any decisions you are contemplating.”

Happiness Quotes That Can Bring You Joy in Life

JOHN LENNON

J.R.R. TOLKIEN

IMMANUEL KANT

MARK TWAIN

MARIANNE WILLIAMSON

BOETHIUS

LEO TOLSTOY

ARISTOTLE

GROUCHO MARX

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