Quotes About Joy

He who would be happy should stay at home.

Happiness grows at our firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.

If solid happiness we prize, within our breast this jewel lies, And they are fools who roam; the world has nothing to bestow, From our own selves our bliss must flow, And that dear hut-our home.

Renown is a source of toil and sorrow; obscurity is a source of happiness.

My crown is called content; a crown it is that seldom kings enjoy.

You can't be envious and happy at the same time.

A book of Verses underneath the Bough, A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread - and Thou Beside me singing in the Wilderness - Oh, Wilderness were Paradise enow!

The thing about having a baby is that thereafter you have it.

Knowledge of mankind is a knowledge of their passions.

The dog is the god of frolic.

How happy are the pessimists! What joy is theirs when they have proved there is no joy.

There is no pleasure without a tincture of bitterness.

Follow pleasure, and then will pleasure flee, Flee pleasure, and pleasure will follow thee.

We tire of those pleasures we take, but never of those we give.

We are never so happy or so unhappy as we think.

Practice being excited.

It's just the most amazing thing to love a dog, isn't it? It makes our relationships with people seem as boring as a bowl of oatmeal.

Rejoice always, pray constantly, and in all circumstances give thanks.

Prayer can assume very different forms, from quiet, blessed contemplation of God, in which eye meets eye in restful meditation, to deep sighs or sudden exclamations of wonder, joy, gratitude or adoration.

Prayer should be the means by which I, at all times, receive all that I need, and, for this reason, be my daily refuge, my daily consolation, my daily joy, my source of rich and inexhaustible joy in life.

You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.

Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving.

To overcome difficulties is to experience the full delight of existence.

Angels fly because they take themselves lightly.