Quotes About Joy

It is the very pursuit of happiness that thwarts happiness.

Happiness is something you get as a by-product in the process of making something else.

Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Happiness is not something you get, but something you do.

Happiness is action.

To fill the hour, and leave no crevice ... that is happiness.

If you observe a really happy man, you will find ... that he is happy in the course of living life twenty-four crowded hours of each day.

Happiness walks on busy feet.

The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy.

The busiest man is the happiest man.

The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one has to do.

Happiness is experienced when your life gives you what you are willing to accept.

This is true joy of life-being used for a purpose that is recognized by yourself as a mighty 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.

Seek happiness for its own sake, and you will not find it; seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine.

The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Having a goal is a state of happiness.

I have had more than half a century of such happiness. A great deal of worry and sorrow, too, but never a worry or a sorrow that was not offset by a purple iris, a lark, a bluebird, or a dewy morning glory.

I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.

Little deeds of kindness, little words of love, Help to make earth happy like the heaven up above.

Happiness is a by-product of helping others.

1 am happy and content because I think I am.

There is work that is work and there is play that is play; there is play that is work and work that is play. And in only one of these lie happiness.

Joy is the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.

Parenting, at its best, comes as naturally as laughter. It is automatic, involuntary, unconditional love.