Quotes About Joy

Grateful for the blessing lent of simple tastes and mind content!

Health is the vital principle of bliss.

The happiness of any given life is to be measured not by its joys and pleasures, but by the extent to which it has been free from suffering, from positive evil.

You can be happy indeed if you have breathing space from pain.

He is a man of sense who does not grieve for what he has not, but rejoices in what he has.

May we never let the things we can't have, or don't have, spoil our enjoyment of the things we do have and can have.

So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some.

That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.

Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

There is no hope or joy except in human relations.

There's nothing worth the wear of winning but laughter, and the love of friends.

A cheerful friend is like a sunny day, which sheds its brightness on all around.

Forget your woes when you see your friend.

Years and years of happiness only make us realize how lucky we are to have friends that have shared and made that happiness a reality.

The real friend is he or she who can share all our sorrow and double our joys.

This is true joy of life-the being used for a purpose that is recognized by yourself as a right one, instead of being a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.

An aspiration is a joy forever, a possession as solid as a landed estate, a fortune which we can never exhaust and which gives us year by year a revenue of pleasurable activity.

Let us live, while we are alive!

The true object of human life is play.

Pleasure is the only thing to live for. Nothing ages like happiness.

That is happiness: to be dissolved into something completely great.

The proper function of man is to live-not to exist.

The Devil himself is good when he is pleased.

Happiness is a mystery like religion, and it should never be rationalized.