Ari Graynor Quotes

Gratitude is the confidence in life itself... As gratitude grows it gives rise to joy. We experience the courage to rejoice in our own good fortune and in the good fortune of others... We can be joyful for people we love, for moments of goodness, for sunlight and trees, and for the very breath within our lungs. Like an innocent child, we can rejoice in life itself, in being alive.

The thought has cheered me, and I'd like to hang onto that. Must protect my little pockets of happiness.

I feel very happy to see the sun come up every day. I feel happy to be around. ... I like to take this day- any day-and go to town with it.

I said that I thought the secret of life was obvious: be here now, love as if your whole life depended on it, find your life's work, and try to get hold of a giant panda. If you had a giant panda in your back yard, anything could go wrong — someone could die, or stop loving you, or you could get sick — and if you could look outside and see this adorable, ridiculous, boffo panda, you'd start to laugh; you'd be so filled with thankfulness and amusement that everything would be O.K. again.

You must learn to take life less seriously and to laugh.

Feeling good about yourself and your life is very important. I'm a happy woman, happy with my husband, my daughters, my grandchildren. We all get along quite well, and that keeps me centered.

I try to be upbeat. I read this book which tells you to write down everything that you're grateful for each day. Now I'm constantly noticing all the little things that make me joyful.

There's a lot of great people out here, I just appreciate it and hope everybody has had fun because I've enjoyed my ride.

I like joy; I want to be joyous; I want to have fun on the set; I want to wear beautiful clothes and look pretty. I want to smile, and I want to make people laugh. And that's all I want. I like it. I like being happy. I want to make others happy.

There are things around, and I know where they can be got quite easily, but I quite like waking up to the sunshine.

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

Laughter and joy are part of the beauty of life.

I guess I don't think there's any reason to feel guilty about having joy in your life, regardless of how bad things are in the world.

You take away all the other luxuries in life, and if you can make someone smile and laugh, you have given the most special gift: happiness.

A day without laughter is a day wasted.

I guess I do have a childlike sense of fun, and although I still have my dark days, I'm generally an optimistic person. The way things have gone in my life, sure, I could have been a bitter person. But I just find bitter people really un-fun, you know? And who wants to be that person?

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

It doesn't take much to make me happy.

I enjoy life. I always enjoy jokes.

I love life too much to be bitter.

I love life. I love my friends. I love to eat. Too many things, I love. I am very much an anti-historical character. I am attracted to happy people. Happy people with very grave problems.

I think my comedy is about finding the good in bad situations - finding the joy. Why be angry? It doesn't help anything.

Smell the roses. Smell the coffee. Whatever it is that makes you happy.

I feel it is time to lighten up and laugh about things and enjoy ourselves a little bit more.

My advice to anybody, including myself, is if you're going through a bad period, and you just can't see the world's on your shoulders and no day is a good day, you're missing the whole point of the experience. And that's something dogs know from the moment they come bounding up to you as a puppy.