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Quotes About Joy

Laughing deeply is living deeply.
~ Milan Kundera
It has always seemed to me that hearty laughter is a good way to jog internally without having to go outdoors.
~ Norman Cousins
A good belly laugh is like taking your liver for a horseback ride.
~ Bonny Clark
He laughs best whose laugh lasts.
~ Laurence J. Peter
Shared laughter is like throwing open the shutters in a gloomy room and letting in fresh air and sunshine.
~ Lila Green
Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human race.
~ Victor Hugo
Shared laughter is love made audible.
~ Izzy Gesell
Laughter is the brush that sweeps away the cobwebs of the heart.
~ Mort Walker
Laughter is a gift everyone should open.
~ Gene Mitchener
Play keeps us vital and alive. It gives us an enthusiasm for life that is irreplaceable. Without it, life just doesn't taste good.
~ Lucia Capacchione
Every time a man smiles, and much more when he laughs, it adds something to his fragment of life.
~ Laurence Sterne
What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. They are but trifles, to be sure; but, scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.
~ Joseph Addison
If you have made another person on this earth smile, your life has been worthwhile.
~ Sr. Mary Christelle Macaluso
True love always brings joy to ourself and to the one we love. If our love does not bring joy to both of us, it is not true love.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
The mark of a mature man is the ability to give love and receive it joyously and without guilt.
~ Leo Baeck
Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year.
~ Franklin Pierce Adams
That which is bitter to endure may be sweet to remember.
~ Thomas Fuller
A source of innocent merriment! Of innocent merriment.
~ W. S. Gilbert
Merry have we met, and merry have we been; Merry let us part, and merry meet again; With our merry sing-song, happy gay, and free, With a merry ding-dong, happy let us be!
~ Old English Rhyme
A merry heart doeth good like a medicine.
~ Bible
Let us eat, and be merry.
~ Bible
Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.
~ Bible
I get up and I bless the light thin clouds and the first twittering of birds, and the breathing air and smiling face of the hills.
~ Giacomo Leopardi
I feel very happy to see the sun come up every day. I feel happy to be around. ... I like to take this day- any day-and go to town with it.
~ James Dickey