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Quotes About Joy

Let your greatest possession be the ability to let go of any possession, joyfully.
~ Bryant McGill
The joy and smile of even one child is worth more than the prancing intellects of a thousand men.
~ Bryant McGill
The true creator-self is a light at heart and free child, who accesses destiny as a simple act of joyful play.
~ Bryant McGill
happiness is not a place it is a direction
~ Brynne Stephens
Cultivating self-love is an odyssey with moments of difficulty and joy. It's an excursion into knowing ourselves, learning to accept and deal with what we discover... and struggling with our fear of allowing in a little madness to set us free.
~ Bud Harris
When you realize how perfect everything is you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky.
~ Buddha
We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.
~ Buddha, The Dharmapada
I've never missed a gig yet. Music makes people happy, and that's why I go on doing it - I like to see everybody smile.
~ Buddy Guy
I love the life I live, I live the life I love.
~ Buddy Guy
Cakes are special. Every birthday, every celebration ends with something sweet, a cake, and people remember. It's all about the memories.
~ Buddy Valastro
Time was when we made our own toys; when a piece of twine, a spool, a few nails and a bit of imagination could keep us busy and happy all day long.
~ burgess gelett ii
The joy of creation does not fade, for in that lies our divinity and our claim to eternity.
~ burgess gelett ii
However, a good laugh is a mighty good thing, and rather too scarce a good thing; the more's the pity.
~ Herman Melville
serenely revelled in dalliance and delight. But even so, amid the tornadoed Atlantic of my being, do I myself still for ever centrally disport in mute calm; and while ponderous planets of unwaning woe revolve round me, deep down and deep inland there I still bathe me in eternal mildness of joy. Meanwhile
~ Herman Melville
The sun hides not the ocean, which is the dark side of this earth, and which is two thirds of this earth. So, therefore, that mortal man who hath more of joy than sorrow in him, that mortal man cannot be true—not
~ Herman Melville
Nevertheless the sun hides not Virginia's Dismal Swamp, nor Rome's accursed Campagna, nor wide Sahara, nor all the millions of miles of deserts and of griefs beneath the moon. The sun hides not the ocean, which is the dark side of this earth, and which is two thirds of this earth. So, therefore, that mortal man who hath more of joy than sorrow in him, that mortal man cannot be true—not true, or undeveloped.
~ Herman Melville
The sun hides not the ocean, which is the dark side of this earth, and which is two thirds of this earth. So, therefore, that mortal man who hath more of joy than sorrow in him, that mortal man cannot be true—not true, or undeveloped.
~ Herman Melville
However, a good laugh is a mighty good thing, and rather too scarce a good thing; the more's the pity. So, if any one man, in his own proper person, afford stuff for a good joke to anybody, let him not be backward, but let him cheerfully allow himself to spend and to be spent in that way. And the man that has anything bountifully laughable about him, be sure there is more in that man than you perhaps think for.
~ Herman Melville
La felicidad busca la luz, por eso juzgamos que el mundo es alegre; pero el dolor se esconde en la soledad, por eso juzgamos que el dolor no existe.
~ Herman Melville
and while ponderous planets of unwaning woe revolve round me, deep down and deep inland there I still bathe me in eternal mildness of joy.
~ Herman Melville
However, a good laugh is a mighty good thing, and rather too scarce a good thing; the more's the pity.
~ Herman Melville
A short life to them, and a jolly death.
~ Herman Melville
good laugh is a mighty good thing, and rather too scarce a good thing; the more's the pity.
~ Herman Melville
even so, amid the tornadoed Atlantic of my being, do I myself still for ever centrally disport in mute calm; and while ponderous planets of unwaning woe revolve round me, deep down and deep inland there I still bathe me in eternal mildness of joy.
~ Herman Melville