Quotes About Joy

Life is too precious to be unhappy.

She would be happy -- but not excessively so....

The kid looked up from her wampum and stared inscrutably at her and then, for the first time since Tracy bought her, Courtney smiled. A beatific sunbeam of a smile. Tracy beamed back, a bubble-burst of mixed emotion – ecstasy and agony in equal, confusing measure inside her – rising in her chest. Jesus. How did parents manage with this kind of stuff on a daily basis? She found herself blinking back tears.

Men ought to know that from the brain, and from the brain only, arise our pleasures, joy, laughter and jests, as well as our sorrows, pains, griefs, and tears.

It brings joy in sorrow, victory in battle, light to darkness, life to the dead. That is the power of the blood-red jewel which men honor with the name "The Philosopher's Stone.

A true religious instinct never deprived man of one single joy; mournful faces and a sombre aspect are the conventional affectations of the weak-minded.

Care, mad to see a man sae happy, E'en drouned himsel amang the nappy.

The savor of the water mint rejoiceth the heart of men.

It is bad to suppress laughter. It goes back down to your hips. Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.

Man is meant for happiness and this happiness is in him, in the satisfaction of the daily needs of his existence.

Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion or some other inward emotion, than by reality, authority, any legal standard, judicial precedent, or statute.

A man too careful of danger liveth in continual torment, But a cheerful expecter of the best hath a fountain of joy within him.

I love men who make me laugh.

I don't think of myself as a legend. I just love what I do. I love playing with my band, I love going to beautiful places and give people good music. I love what I do, I'm very lucky man.

Everywhere men have unlocked the prisoners within, and from under the disguising skins the apes have leapt joyfully out.

I am a man of simple pleasures. The best suits me perfectly.

The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction.

How good is man's life, the mere living! How fit to employ all the heart and the soul and the senses forever in joy!

A man may manifest and communicate his joy, but he should conceal and smother his grief as much as possible.

Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it.

Labor, if it were not necessary for existence, would be indispensable for the happiness of man.

Call not that man wretched, who whatever else he suffers as to pain inflicted, or pleasure denied, has a child for whom he hopes and on whom he doats.

One good, hearty laugh is a bombshell exploding in the right place, while spleen and discontent are a gun that kicks over the man who shoots it off.

No one has learned the meaning of living until he has surrendered his ego to the service of his fellow man. Service to others is akin to duty, the fulfillment of which brings true joy.