Quotes About Joy

There is a glory in happiness, there is a glory in suffering.

always keep your mind joyful; if melancholy thoughts come, kick them out.

T he happiest moments we ever know are when we entirely forget ourselves

Friendship doubles our joy and divides our grief.

Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow.

Shared joy is double joy. Shared sorrow is half sorrow.

Joy is a deeply felt contentment that transcends difficult circumstances and derives maximum enjoyment from every good experience.

Deep, contended joy comes from a place of complete security and confidence [in God] - even in the midst of trial.

Love is the highest and best use of a life.

if you believe, instead, that the passing years are a celebration of life, who knows what they'll bring?

Happiness is a direction, not a place.

A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience.

To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

If I were to begin life again, I would devote it to music. It is the only cheap and unpunished rapture upon earth.

Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love, and to be loved, is the greatest happiness of existence.

Mankind are always happy for having happiness. So if you make them happy now, you make them happy twenty years from now by the memory of it.

May we always meet on happy occasions.

Few of us will ever be famous, I can tell you none of us will be rich. But we will have more important riches –the joy of making the beautiful music.

I hardly think you'd be comfortable in this Succah for ever and ever," Papa said. "But I know just how you feel. It is nice to be making with your own hands the thing you are going to use. I'll tell you what we'll do. We'll leave the little house up for about a month after the holiday so you can enjoy it." "Oh, Papa," the children all cried, "how wonderful!

Knowing the truth brings happiness.

I have become more passionate, not less. When I am delighted, which is often, I am ecstatic. When I am sad, I cry easily. Nothing is a big deal. It's whatever it is, and then it's something else.

The first is about spiritual living. I think it's plain. Ordinary people do it, and they don't even know they are doing it. In the middle of plain lives, with regular joys and griefs, they live with grace and kindness and are happy.

I can still feel that leap of enthusiasm, and real joy, at the prospect of finally getting out to the beach, and running around. But probably the most important thing, to me, aside from just the freedom of it and the power of it, was the kind of creatures that you could see along the beach, that you can't find anywhere else." - Sylvia Earle

As a child, I survived by forgetting. Later, the amnesia became a problem as large as the one it was meant to conceal. However, I did not remember my past until the homemade bomb was defused, until the evil was contained, until I was stable enough and happy enough that sorrow or anger or regret or pain was overwhelmed by joy at my release. To reach this state, I needed the help of friends and healers. This I had in abundance. (252)