Quotes About Joy

The simple truth is that happy people generally don't get sick.

The best things in life aren't things.

Joy has nothing to do with material things, or with a man's outward circumstance ... a man living in the lap of luxury can be wretched, and a man in the depths of poverty can overflow with joy.

Getting what you go after is success; but liking it while you are getting it is happiness.

With happiness comes intelligence to the heart.

Best trust the happy moments. ... The days that make us happy make us wise.

A garden isn't meant to be useful. It's for joy.

A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy can live.

To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy.

The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up.

Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you will cease to be so.

Every minute your mouth is turned down you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

No pleasure without pain.

Happiness lies in the consciousness we have of it.

We are all happy, if we only knew it.

The more the heart is sated with joy, the more it becomes insatiable.

Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, And in their pleasure takes joy, even as though t'were his own.

That man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more, garnering the simple goodness of a life.

Most folk are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

True happiness consists in making others happy.

Better be happy than wise.

I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.

A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance.