Quotes About Joy

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Hold on to them both. In time you'll find children the greatest comfort you can imagine. Indeed, they prove to be the only possible distraction from the unanswerable question of why.

We must exercise ourselves in the things which bring happiness, since, if that be present, we have everything, and, if that be absent, all our actions are directed toward attaining it.

To eke out the most happiness from an experience, we must anticipate it, savor it as it unfolds, express happiness, and recall a happy memory.

Both money and health contribute to happiness mostly in the negative; the lack of them brings much more unhappiness than possessing them brings happiness. p 169

This is one of the many paradoxes of happiness: we seek to control our lives, but the unfamiliar and the unexpected are important sources of happiness.

It's easy to make the mistake of thinking that if you have something you love or there's something you want, you'll be happier with more.

In many ways, the happiness of having children falls into the kind of happiness that could be called fog happiness. Fog is elusive. Fog surrounds you and transforms the atmosphere, but when you try to examine it, it vanishes. Fog happiness is the kind of happiness you get from activities that, closely examined, don't really seem to bring much happiness at all—yet somehow they do.

According to Aristotle, "Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.

It wasn't the amount of stuff; it was the engagement with that stuff [that mattered for happiness].

One of the great joys of falling in love is the feeling that the MOST extraordinary person in the entire world has chosen YOU

The main purpose of laughter is to bind people together; it's a social sound that's meant to be heard by others, to create engagement. We're far more likely to laugh when we're with other people, and when we're with friends rather than with strangers.

Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that, but simply growth. We are happy when we are growing.

happiness is not having less; happiness is not having more; happiness is wanting what I have.

But, as a follow-up, I asked myself, "Can money help buy happiness?" The answer: yes, used wisely, it can.

Happiness," wrote Yeats, "is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that, but simply growth. We are happy when we are growing.

Of all the things that wisdom provides for living one's entire life in happiness, the greatest by far is the possession of friendship." You

studies show that the absence of feeling bad isn't enough to make you happy; you must strive to find sources of feeling good. One

Another study suggested that getting one extra hour of sleep each night would do more for a person's daily happiness than getting a $ 60,000 raise.

I had everything that I could wish for; I wanted to make my home happier by appreciating how much happiness was already there.

getting one extra hour of sleep each night would do more for a person's daily happiness than getting a $60,000 raise.

Studies show that recalling happy times helps boost happiness in the present. When people reminisce, they focus on positive memories, with the result that recalling the past amplifies the positive and minimizes the negative.

know how happy I am when one of them is very happy. How happy I was to

Happiness depends partly on external circumstances, and it also depends on how you view those circumstances