You don't want to be the frown family.
As the Mayo Clinic notes, happy people devote time to family and friends, count their blessings, stay optimistic, feel a sense of purpose, and live for the moment.
To help your family live that way, it can't hurt to also whip out these blues-busting quotes:
"A smile is a curve that sets everything straight" – Phyllis Diller
"The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself" – Benjamin Franklin
"Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city" – George Burns
"Trying to be happy by accumulating possessions is like trying to satisfy hunger by taping sandwiches all over your body" –George Carlin
"The only thing money gives you is the freedom of not worrying about money" –Johnny Carson
"Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be" – Abraham Lincoln
"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go" – Oscar Wilde
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. " – Mahatma Gandhi
"Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness" – Carl Jung
"Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort" – Franklin D. Roosevelt
"Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product" – First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt
"Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable" – writer and U.S. ambassador Clare Booth Luce
"Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for" – English writer Joseph Addison
"Every day, think as you wake up, 'Today I am fortunate to be alive. I have a precious human life, I am not going to waste it'" – Dalai Lama
"I hope that [my granddaughter] learns sometime in her life that her happiness is not dependent on some other human being" – former Texas Governor Ann Richards
"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is" – Albert Einstein
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