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We don't laugh because we're happy - we're happy because we laugh.

We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all.

We must laugh before we are happy, for fear of dying without having laughed at all.

We are never happy; we can only remember that we were so once.

We've just learned how to balance ourselves a little better so that we're happier way more of the time than not, and, you know, being happy is a radical and desirable act if you ask me.

We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.

There is one thing in this good old world that is positively sure - happiness is for all who strive to be happy - and those who laugh are happy. Everybody is eligible - you - me - the other fellow. Happiness is fundamentally a state of mind - not a state of body.

If I laugh a couple of times a day, I'm doing good. People think it's their God-given right to be happy, and it's just not. It's something you've got to work at. I like to paint the human condition, and the human condition is not smiles and happy people.

If I can't be happy, nobody can be happy.