Quotes About Joy

He that is of a merry heart hath a continual feast.

My creed is that: Happiness is the only good. The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now. The way to be happy is to make others so.

. . . the little hills rejoice on every side. The pastures are clothed with flocks; the valleys also are covered over with corn; they shout for joy, they also sing.

Man is that he might have joy.

Happiness? That's nothing more than health and a poor memory.

Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.

We always have enough to be happy if we are enjoying what we do have- and not worrying about what we don't have.

The pursuit of happiness ... is the greatest feat man has to accomplish.

A good laugh makes any interview, or any conversation, so much better.

The general rule is that people who enjoy life also enjoy marriage.

Men are made for happiness, and anyone who is completely happy has a right to say to himself: "I am doing God's will on earth."

Happiness hates the timid!

We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

Not only is there a right to be happy, there is a duty to be happy. So much sadness exists in the world that we are all under obligation to contribute as much joy as lies within our powers.

False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.

Don't mistake pleasures for happiness. They are a different breed of dog.

Happiness, happiness ... the flavor is with you-with you alone, and you can make it as intoxicating as you please.

Few are they who have never had the chance to achieve happiness ... and fewer those who have taken that chance.

I don't think that... one gets a flash of happiness once, and never again; it is there within you, and it will come as certainly as death.

A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.

If you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

Deliberately to pursue happiness is not the surest way of achieving it. Seek it for its own sake and I doubt whether you will find it.

Happiness comes most to persons who seek it least, and think least about it. It is not an object to be sought, it is a state to be induced. It must follow and not lead. It must overtake you, and not you overtake it.

Happiness sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.