Quotes About Joy

Happiness,... even the smallest happiness, is like a step out of Time, and the greatest happiness is sharing in Eternity.

Happiness and joy are not the same. For what does the fervent craving for joy mean? It does not mean that we wish at any cost to experience the psychic state of being joyful. We want to have reason for joy, for an unceasing joy that fills us utterly, sweeps all before it, exceeds all measure.

The "supreme good" and its attainment -- that is happiness. And joy is: response to happiness.

No matter how simple your life is as long as you're happy, then live with it....

Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, filling it with a steady and perpetual serenity

Health and cheerfulness mutually beget each other.

Music, the greatest good that mortals know, and all of heaven we have here below.

If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.

Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.

True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.

Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.

One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.

The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love and something to hope for.

True happiness... arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self.

Mirth is like a flash of lightning that breaks through a gloom of clouds and glitters for a moment.

Let me see you, O Light of my eyes. Come, O Joy of my spirit; let me behold you, O Gladness of my heart. Let me love you, O Life of my soul. Appear unto me, O my great delight, my sweet comfort, O my God, my life, and the whole glory of my soul. Let me find you, O Desire of my heart; let me hold you, O Love of my soul. Let me embrace you, O Heavenly Bridegroom. Let me possess you.

'Tis the gift to be simple, 'tis the gift to be free,'Tis the gift to come down where we ought to be,And when we find ourselves in the place just right,'Twill be in the valley of love and delight.

To find your own way is to follow your bliss. This involves analysis, watching yourself and seeing where real deep bliss is -- not the quick little excitement , but the real deep, life-filling bliss.

Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.

Find a place where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.

Some establishments simply adore to be utterly overwhelmed by all the joy of gay and babbling children. These are called Italian restaurants.