Edwin Hubbel Chapin Quotes

It would be a terrible mistake to go through life thinking that people are the sum total of what you see.

And that boys," yelled Mr. Weasley over the tumult of the crowd below,"is why you should never go for looks alone!

The waltz can be sad and at the same time uplifting. You have to see life from both sides, and the waltz encapsulates that. If you're in my audience you give yourself to me and the waltz will grab you.

Live by this credo: have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness instead of sadness. Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations.

Things do not pass for what they are, but for what they seem. Most things are judged by their jackets.

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

I'm more apt to cry at something beautiful than at something sad.

Brass shines as fair to the ignorant as gold to the goldsmith.

For every laugh, there should be a tear.

I would not exchange the sorrows of my heart for the joys of the multitude. And I would not have the tears that sadness makes to flow from my every part turn into laughter. I would that my life remain a tear and a smile.

Laugh, and the world laughs with you: Weep, and you weep alone. For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own.

Always scorn appearances and you always may.

I teach you joy, not sadness. I teach you playfulness, not seriousness. I teach you love and laughter, because to me there is nothing more sacred than love and laughter, and there is nothing more prayerful than playfulness. I don't teach you renunciation, as it has been taught down the ages. I teach you: Rejoice, rejoice, and rejoice again! Rejoicing should be the essential core of my sannyasins.

It is a great art to have an abundance of knowledge and experience - to know the richness of life, the beauty of existence, the struggles, the miseries, the laughter, the tears - and yet keep your mind very simple; and you can have a simple mind only when you know how to love.

You can walk away from your mistakes You can turn your back on what you do Just a little smile is all it takes And you can have your cake and eat it too. Loneliness will get to you somehow But ev'rybody loves you now.

You need a reason to be sad. You don't need a reason to be happy.

Keep the commandments of God. If you have sinned, the sooner you begin to make your way back, the sooner you will find the sweet peace and joy that come with the miracle of forgiveness. Happiness comes from living the way the Lord wants you to live and from service to God and others.

I've never enjoyed myself. I'm incapable of enjoying myself. There's just some people who don't enjoy themselves very much.

Sadness comes, joy comes, and everything passes by. What remains always is the witness. The witness is beyond all polarities.

She suddenly found herself laughing without bitterness.

Laughter takes the tyranny of the lies we are told and told and told and it blows them apart.

There are random moments - tossing a salad, coming up the driveway to the house, ironing the seams flat on a quilt square, standing at the kitchen window and looking out at the delphiniums, hearing a burst of laughter from one of my children's rooms - when I feel a wavelike rush of joy. This is my true religion: arbitrary moments of of nearly painful happiness for a life I feel privileged to lead.

You think you know someone by looking at his face but what can one face say about the thousand thoughts behind those eyes.