Quotes About Joy

Beauty should be shared for it enhances our joys. To explore its mystery is to venture towards the sublime.

I should prefer to die laughing, and, on more than one occasion, thought I might.

I learned that I was never alone, that there was Someone always very close by and, indeed, within me, giving me strength in times of weakness and desolation, light in times of darkness, joy in times of great sorrow and pain, and the will to struggle on when continuing seemed futile.

He was one of those souls destined by God to understand just how little and insignificant they are, even though divine love makes them important to God. But they never have the joy of knowing that they are important. Society will always prevent that. They are just unwanted nuisances pricking the consciences of people who wish they would just disappear.

Life everlasting in a state of happiness is the greatest desire of all men.

The inspired Scriptures make the clear distinction between false and true riches and make plain the reason why happiness is gained and fully enjoyed only by those who find true riches.

There'll be a hot time in the old town tonight.

We do have a zeal for laughter in most situations, give or take a dentist.

Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.

Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.

Life is a goddam mess...but you wouldn't want to miss it!

A veces, cuando bromea, la gente ignorante tiene una especie de inspirada temeridad que es de lo más alegre y contagiosa. Le levanta a uno el ánimo.

I liked her smile. And I knew that I had fallen in love. I knew that I wanted to run rivers with her, and camp, and go out to dinner and dance, and meet people with her by my side, and establish routines, and hear every knock-knock joke in her repertoire. I knew that. The knowledge came as simply as clean linen.

Once you learn to contact and release the hidden power of your subconscious mind, you can bring into your life more power, more wealth, more health, more happiness, and more joy.

Your desire is your prayer. Picture the fulfillment of your desire now and feel its reality and you will experience the joy of the answered. Dr. Joseph Murphy

Remember, you are spiritually recharged during sleep, and adequate sleep is essential to produce joy and vitality in life.

painful difficulty about happiness is that we so rarely notice its arrival.

Happy as a threaded needle

If you cannot point to a particular actual or imagined room, among the billions of rooms in the world, and state truthfully, Inside that room I will find joy - well, then you have found a useful measure of where you stand in the matter of joy. And in the matter of rooms, too.

To me the art of the Counter Reformation was a pure joy and I loved the churches of Bernini and Borromini no less than the ancient basilicas. And this in turn led me to the literature of the Counter Reformation, and I came to know St Theresa and St John of the Cross, compared to whom even the greatest of non-Catholic religious writers seem pale and unreal.19

And here is the paradox at the heart of the Christian life: The one who embraces suffering, who dies to himself in order to die for others, is actually happier than the one who shuns suffering and who puts himself above all else.

Physical fitness is the first requisite of happiness.

the term "play" as we use it here, embraces every possible form of PLEASURABLE LIVING.

Laughter is God's blessing.