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Quotes About Joy

Just as it is agreed that we all wish to be happy, so it is that we all wish to be wise, since no one without wisdom is happy.
~ Saint Augustine
When we are centered in joy, we attain our wisdom.
~ Marianne Williamson
One of the joys of reading is the ability to plug into the shared wisdom of mankind.
~ Ishmael Reed
It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral.
~ D. H. Lawrence
Any joy, creativity or wisdom our next moment brings will ensue from the way we live our present one.
~ Susan L. Taylor
God is the Source of real love, joy, peace, wisdom and everything else we all need to be the people He has created us to be.
~ Joyce Meyer
Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the self-same well from which your laughter rises was often-times filled with your tears.
~ Rene Descartes
Remarkable contributions are typically spawned by a passionate commitment to transcendent values such as beauty, truth, wisdom, justice, charity, fidelity, joy, courage and honor.
~ Gary Hamel
Philosophical discussions habitually make men happy and joyful not frowning and sad.
~ Michel de Montaigne
Land of Heart's Desire Where beauty has no ebb, decay no flood, But joy is wisdom, time an endless song.
~ William Butler Yeats
Prosperity isn't defined by money alone; it encompasses time, love, success, joy, comfort, beauty, and wisdom.
~ Louise Hay
Never will I pursue happiness, because it is not a goal, just a by-product, and there is no happiness in having or in getting, only in giving.
~ Og Mandino
... laughter is lovelier than tears in bed.
~ Dorothy Hewett
Spirit is the source of peace. It is the source of joy. It is not a duality of happiness and unhappiness, but singular joy.
~ Nirmala Srivastava
The greater part of human activity is designed to make permanent those experiences and joys which are only lovable because they are changing.
~ Alan Watts
A good smile is the sunshine of wisdom.
~ Hosea Ballou
The spirit is the only thing that is free within, which has no hang-ups, which has no habits, which does not stick on to anything, is completely detached and emitting joy to us.
~ Nirmala Srivastava
The real way to gain happiness is to give it to others.
~ Baden Powell de Aquino
Prayer is the highest intelligence, the profoundest wisdom, the most vital, the most joyous, the most efficacious, the most powerful of all vocations.
~ Edward McKendree Bounds
Live a virtuous life, help everyone and spread joy wherever you go.
~ Radhe Maa
If you're not having fun, you're doing something wrong.
~ Groucho Marx
Happiness is the best cosmetic.
~ Karen Duffy
I live my life in gratitude.
~ Olivia Newton-John
Innately within us, resides the Spirit which wants to enlighten you, to give the peace, the bliss and the joy of our being.
~ Nirmala Srivastava