Quotes About Joy

Remember, the reason to clear clutter is because, somehow, that clutter is diminishing your happiness. If you don't care, don't bother.

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To be happy, I needed to generate more positive emotions, so that I increased the amount of joy, pleasure, enthusiasm, gratitude, intimacy, and friendship in my life. That wasn't hard to understand.

We nonjoyous types suck energy and cheer from the joyous ones; we rely on them to buoy us with their good spirit and to cushion our agitation and anxiety. At the same time, because of a dark element in human nature, we're sometimes provoked to try to shake the enthusiastic, cheery folk out of their fog of illusion—to make them see that the play was stupid, the money was wasted, the meeting was pointless. Instead of shielding their joy, we blast it.

And a sense of purpose is very important to happiness. But

It takes work to be happier, but it's gratifying work.

The Levity Effect

anticipation of happiness is sometimes greater than the happiness actually experienced. All the more reason to revel in anticipation.

Studies show that if you have five or more friends with whom to discuss an important matter, you're far more likely to describe yourself as "very happy.

True, money can't buy happiness. But spent wisely, it can buy things that contribute mightily to a happy life.

One of the best ways to make yourself happy is to make other people happy; One of the best ways to make other people happy is to be happy yourself.

book Happier, Tal Ben-Shahar

In disasters, children show us the way to laughter. They are our special treasures.

Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

Joy came always after pain.

Sous le pont Mirabeau coule la Seine Et nos amours Faut-il qu'il m'en souvienne La joie venait toujours après la peine Vienne la nuit sonne l'heure Les jours s'en vont je demeure

We must laugh and cry, enjoy and suffer, in a word, vibrate to our full capacity … I think that's what being really human means.

Isn't 'not to be bored' one of the principal goals of life?

I will cover you with love when next I see you, with caresses, with ecstasy. I want to gorge you with all the joys of the flesh, so that you faint and die. I want you to be amazed by me, and to confess to yourself that you had never even dreamed of such transports... When you are old, I want you to recall those few hours, I want your dry bones to quiver with joy when you think of them.

If you want to be happy, it is necessary not to be too intelligent.

Standing side by side, on some rising ground, they felt, as they drank in the air, the pride of a life more free penetrating into the depths of their souls, with a superabundance of energy, a joy which they could not explain.

Art, like the Jewish God, wallows in sacrifices. So tear yourself to pieces, mortify your flesh, roll in ashes, smear yourself with filth and spittle, wrench out your heart! You will be alone, your feet will bleed, an infernal disgust will be with you throughout your pilgrimage, what gives joy to others will give none to you, what to them are but pinpricks will cut you to the quick, and you will be lost in the hurricane with only beauty's faint glow visible on the horizon.

Demek ki, mutluluÄŸun yerinde daha büyük mutluluk, bütün aÅŸklar?n üzerinde aral?ks?z, sonsuz ve sürekli artacak olan baÅŸka bir aÅŸk vard?!

Poor human weakness! With your words, your languages, your sounds, you speak and stammer—you define God, the heaven and the earth, chemistry and philosophy, and you cannot express, with your language, all the joy that you derive from a naked woman—or a plum pudding.