Kristin Hannah Quotes

There are moments when I wish I could roll back the clock and take all the sadness away, but I have a feeling that if I did, the joy would be gone as well. So I take the memories as they come, accepting them all, letting them guide me whenever I can.

Sometimes you do have to laugh to keep from crying. And sometimes the world feels all right and good and kind of like it's becoming nice again around you. And you realize it, and realize how happy you are in it, and you just gotta laugh.

He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.

Some days are just bad days, that's all. You have to experience sadness to know happiness, and I remind myself that not every day is going to be a good day, that's just the way it is!

I have learned that grief is a vital part of my heart and accept it as a gift that exists alongside joy.

If there is suffering, then it's best to accept it, because it won't go away just because you pretend it's not there. If there is joy, then it's best to accept that too, even though you're afraid it might end one day.

It's the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy.

One inch of joy surmounts of grief a span, Because to laugh is proper to the man.

To me, sadness and humor aren't disrelated and humor is the best tool I've had against the sadness in my life.

There isn't a single human being who hasn't plenty to cry over, and the trick is to make the laughs outweigh the tears.

I honestly believe life is a combination of laughter and tears, and it's almost always better to laugh than to cry.

We never taste a perfect joy; our happiest successes are mixed with sadness.

Even when there are times that we're not happy, happiness will creep in.

Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison.

I've laughed, and I've cried. Laughing has got it over crying.

There are so many things in life that make you sad, you have to be happy.

The main thing in one's own private world is to try to laugh as much as you cry.

But really, Marilla, one can't stay sad very long in such an interesting world, can one?

I think its very important to not be afraid to experience joy in the middle of sorrow.

A minute to smile and an hour to weep in, A pint of joy to a peck of trouble, And never a laugh but the moans come double; And that is life!

The truth is life is full of joy and full of great sorrow, but you can't have one without the other.

Sadness, seriousness are parts of a psychologically sick man - they need causes. So when you are feeling happy, don't start asking, "Why am I happy?" When you are feeling sad ask why you are sad. But strangely, it has become conventional to our minds that when we are sad we accept it as if it is our nature. And when we are joyous even we are surprised; deep inside we even start worrying: "What is happening to me?"

I think the world is like a great mirror, and reflects our lives just as we ourselves look upon it. Those who turn sad faces toward the world find only sadness reflected. But a smile is reflected in the same way, and cheers and brightens our hearts. You think there is no pleasure to be had in life. That is because you are heartsick and-and tired, as you say. With one sad story ended you are afraid to begin another-a sequel-feeling it would be equally sad. But why should it be? Isn't the joy or sorrow equally divided in life?

If it is possible to die of grief then why on earth can't someone be healed by happiness?

You gotta look for the good in the bad, the happy in your sad, the gain in your pain, and what makes you grateful not hateful.