Gifting Happiness in a Jar

How to Make a Jar of Happiness

For starters, you want to try and muster up some happiness. Think of the people you love because this project will require some happy thoughts. Now open your mind. Relax and breathe. Began to think of the people or person who you want to bring happiness to. Ask yourself; will be using the jar? Capture an image of them in your mind. Hold on to it and think up all the things they like and who they are. If the jar is for you or your family, make sure you think about everyone. Any only positive energy…

My passion for creation lives on everytime I share this craft with my family and friends. This gift truly brings endless happiness.

Be sure to check out the "content" added for your viewing convenience at the bottom of this article.

Supplies You Will Need:

• White Glue
• Old magazines
• A container with smooth sides to which you can glue pieces of magazine
• Scissors
• Plain White Paper
• Pen
• Or #5 and #6 can be computer word document and printer, whichever.

How To Make A Jar of Happiness

1. Go through magazines seeking images that suit the theme for whoever will be using the jar.
2. Cut out the images nicely and make sure you have enough, including words and sentences that are happy and the people using the jar will like. Example: Live Love Laugh
3. Once you have enough images to cover the exterior of the container of your choice, start designing which picture will go where
4. Then adhere with white glue.
5. Let dry for 12 hours and re-glaze with glue, so the entire jar is covered in pictures and words representing happiness.
6. Then write out quotes, jokes, inspirational quotes, anything fun and cut them into strips to be pulled from the jar one statement at a time.
7. Place the quotes and jokes that are on the paper into the jar and put the lid on.
8. When the glue is dried, and the quotes and happiness are inside with the lid on; your Jar of Happiness is complete. Now you are free to gift it or use it as you please.
9. Instructions: Whenever your feeling down or need a pick me up, open the jar and read a singular statement.

10. Feel happiness every time the jar is opened.

This has been one of my favourite holiday pass times for many seasons. Sharing my joy with my friends and family wholeheartedly. Everyone who has been on the receiving end of this gift has expressed great joy and happiness. Thusly this craft has become a trademark of some sort. Often visiting someone I know to see one of these lovely jars placed on a counter for everyone to enjoy. That brings me an immense amount of happiness. No matter how silly this craft may seem, it has pulled many people away from sadness. Bringing laughter, love, light and life back into their lives.

Make a Jar of Happy Jar and Share the Happiness.

Here Is Some Content For Your Happy Jar

“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.” — Edith Wharton

“You do not find the happy life. You make it.” — Camilla Eyring Kimball

“The most wasted of days is one without laughter.” — E.E. Cummings

“Stay close to anything that makes you glad you are alive.” — Hafez

“Make each day your masterpiece.” — John Wooden

“Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn’t know you left open.” — John Barrymore

“Happiness is not by chance, but by choice.” — Jim Rohn

“Life changes very quickly, in a very positive way, if you let it.” — Lindsey Vonn

“Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.” — Helen Keller

“Impossible is for the unwilling.” — John Keats

“No pressure, no diamonds.” — Thomas Carlyle

“Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” — Theodore Roosevelt

“Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.” — Truman Capote

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.” — George Eliot

“When you have a dream, you’ve got to grab it and never let go.” — Carol Burnett

“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” — Mahatma Gandhi

“Stay foolish to stay sane.” — Maxime Lagacé

“Stay hungry. Stay foolish.” — Steve Jobs

“Whatever you are, be a good one.” — Abraham Lincoln

“You must do the things you think you cannot do.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

“Wherever you go, go with all your heart.” — Confucius

“Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.” — André Gide

“Dream big and dare to fail.” — Norman Vaughan

“My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive.” — Maya Angelou

“You are enough just as you are.” — Meghan Markle

“To be the best, you must be able to handle the worst.” — Wilson Kanadi

“No matter what you’re going through, there’s a light at the end of the tunnel.” — Demi Lovato

“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” — Albert Einstein

“Every moment is a fresh beginning.” — T.S. Eliot

“No guts, no story.” — Chris Brady

“Keep going. Be all in.” — Bryan Hutchinson

“Leave no stone unturned.” — Euripides

“Nothing is impossible. The word itself says “I’m possible!” — Audrey Hepburn

“It isn’t where you came from. It’s where you’re going that counts.” — Ella Fitzgerald

“If it matters to you, you’ll find a way.” — Charlie Gilkey

“Tough times never last, but tough people do.” — Dr. Robert Schuller

“Turn your wounds into wisdom.” — Oprah Winfrey

“The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” — Lao Tzu

“If you’re going through hell, keep going.” — Winston Churchill

“Don’t wait, the time will never be just right.” — Napoleon Hill

“If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way.” — Martin Luther King Jr.

“Life is fragile. We’re not guaranteed a tomorrow so give it everything you’ve got.” — Tim Cook

“The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.” — Michael Altshuler

“Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.” — Maya Angelou

“Some people look for a beautiful place. Others make a place beautiful.” — Hazrat Inayat Khan

“Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.” — Isaac Asimov

“I’m starting to think this world is just a place for us to learn that we need each other more than we want to admit.” — Richelle E. Goodrich

“We have a responsibility to help those around us and help others in need.” — Virginia Williams

“No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of others.” — Charles Dickens (see more Charles Dickens quotes)

“No one has ever become poor by giving.” — Anne Frank

“Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.” — Samuel Beckett

“The only thing that can grow is the thing you give energy to.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Good things happen to those who hustle.” — Anaïs Nin

“No greater gift there is,than a generous heart.” — Yoda

“Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.” — Winston Churchill

“A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.” — Joseph Campbell

“You can if you think you can.” — George Reeves

“Worrying is like paying a debt you don’t owe.” — Mark Twain

“The wisest mind has something yet to learn.” — George Santanaya

“Get to the point where you get allergic to average! You don’t think average!” — Eric Thomas

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” — Oscar Wilde

“Open your mind. Get up off the couch. Move.” — Anthony Bourdain

“When you finally learn your self–worth… you stop giving others discounts.” — Unknown

“You never fail until you stop trying.” — Albert Einstein

“We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.” — Helen Keller

“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.” — Robert Louis Stevenson

“Whatever you do, do with all your might.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

“In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.” — Albert Einstein

“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

“If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.” — Dolly Parton

“Persistence guarantees that results are inevitable.” — Paramahansa Yogananda

“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” –George Bernard Shaw

“Some days you just have to create your own sunshine.” — Unknown

“Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.” — Martin Luther King Jr.

“There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.” — Augustine of Hippo

“Always do what you are afraid to do.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Every noble work is at first impossible.” — Thomas Carlyle

“Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.” — Ralph Emerson

“Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.” — Edwin Markham

“Overcome the notion that you must be regular. It robs you of the chance to be extraordinary.”

“Do what you feel in your heart to be right — for you’ll be criticized anyway.” Eleanor Roosevelt

“Take time to do what makes You happy.”

“Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.” Lance Armstrong

“The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.” William Blake

“When one door of happiness closes, another opens.“ Helen Keller

“Sadness flies away on the wings of time.” Jean de La Fontaine

“It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.” — Edmund Hillary

“Begin anywhere.” — John Cage

“Have faith in yourself and in the future.” — Ted Kennedy

“Most obstacles melt away when we make up our minds to walk boldly through them.” — Orison Swett Marden

“Do it Now!” — Napoleon Hill

“The best way to prepare for life is to begin to live.”- Elbert Hubbard

“No great thing is created suddenly.” — Epictetus

“And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It is the life in your years.” — Abraham Lincoln

“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” — Confucius

“Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.” — Soren Kierkegaard

“I’d rather be optimistic and a fool, than pessimistic and right.” –Author unknown

“Courage is fear that has said its prayers.” — Dorothy Bernard

“Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.”– Jonathan Lockwood Huie

“Live your dreams.” — Les Brown

“The true vocation of man is to find his way for himself.” — Hermann Hesse

“A life of sacrifice is the pinnacle of art, and is full of true joy.” –Mahatma Gandhi

“No wind favors he who has no destined port.” — Montaigne

“It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.” — Henry Davis Thoreau

“Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.” — Albert Einstein

“To know oneself, one should assert oneself.” –Albert Camus

“Men do less than they ought unless they do all they can.” — Thomas Carlyle

“People living deeply have no fear of death.” — Anais Nin

“A clever man commits no minor blunders.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Be not afraid of going slowly, be afraid only of standing still.” –Chinese Proverb

“If I’m gonna tell a real story, I’m gonna start with my name.” — Kendrick Lamar

“Wake up with determination. Go to bed with satisfaction.”

– George Horace Lorimer

“All limitations are self-imposed.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes

“When you make a choice, you change the future.”– Deepak Chopra

“Determine your priorities and focus on them.” — Eileen McDargh

“Words are your paintbrush, and your life is the canvas. You can paint whatever you want to paint.”― Miguel Ruiz

“Never let your emotions overpower your intelligence.” — Drake

“Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.”– Oprah Winfrey

“Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.” — Rumi

“Always remember that you are unique — just like everybody else.” — Unknown

“If you tell the truth you don’t have to remember anything.” — Mark Twain

“Re-examine all you have been told. Dismiss what insults your soul.”

– Walt Whitman

“Have enough courage to start and enough heart to finish.” — Jessica N. S. Yourko

“Above all, a person is their will.”– Unknown

“Be so good they can’t ignore you.” — Steve Martin

“If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.”– Milton Berle

“Don’t you know your imperfections is a blessing?” — Kendrick Lamar

“Who you are tomorrow begins with what you do today.”– Tim Fargo

“Happiness depends upon ourselves.” — Aristotle

“You can’t have everything. Where would you put it?” — Steven Wright

“Tough times never last but tough people do.” — Robert H. Schiuller

“Magic always happens when you direct your inner powers to the object you want to change.”– Bangambiki Habyarimana

“I could agree with you but then we’d both be wrong.” — Harvey Specter

“The only impossible journey is the one you never begin.”– Tony Robbins

“Yesterday you said tomorrow. Just do it.” — Nike

“Those at the top of the mountain didn’t fall there.”– Marcus Washling

“There is no substitute for hard work.” — Thomas Edison

“Mostly, the world sees you the way you see yourself.”– Lisa Nichols

“The meaning of life is to give life meaning.” — Ken Hudgins

“The elevator to success is out of order. You’ll have to use the stairs, one step at a time.” — Joe Girard

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” — Mahatma Gandhi

“We accept the love we think we deserve.” — Stephen Chbosky

“Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius, and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.” — Marilyn Monroe

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.” — Oscar Wilde

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” — Maya Angelou

“Everything you can imagine is real.” — Pablo Picasso

“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” — Theodore Roosevelt

“It’s the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.” — Paulo Coelho

“Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.” — Dalai Lama

“Life is too short to waste your time on people who don’t respect, appreciate, and value you.” — Roy T. Bennett

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