Quotes About Joy

To see the ball, to run after it, makes me the happiest man in the world

Happy is the man who can make a living by his hobby

I hate this fast growing tendency to chain men to machines in big factories and deprive them of all joy in their efforts - the plan will lead to cheap men and cheap products.

Does the Lord intend to make man happy? Sure... but it's a byproduct, not a prime product.

For the wise man, every day is a festival.

I know that a man is converted when he starts to sing

The true poet, is like a man who's happy anywhere, in endless measure, if he's allowed to look at leaves and grass, to see the sun rise and set.

No man truly has joy unless he lives in love.

The man who loves his job never works a day in his life.

If a man who cannot count finds a four-leaf clover, is he entitled to happiness?

Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man.

There is always something to be happy about if we look for it: 'Two men looked through prison bars, The one saw mud, the other stars.'

She loved three things — a joke, a glass of wine, and a handsome man.

Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.

The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.

Take all away from me, but leave me Ecstasy, And I am richer then than all my Fellow Men-.

Oh my God," he said. "A kind word from Rose Hathaway. I can die a happy man.

Every man and every living creature has a sacred right to the gladness of springtime.

It makes you feel good, man, makes you forget all the bad things that happen to a Negro. It makes you feel wanted, and when you're with another tea smoker, it makes you feel a special kinship.

Work, love and play are the great balance wheels of man's being.

Men are that they might have joy . . . not guilt trips.

O, it's die we must, but it's live we can, And the marvel of earth and sun Is all for the joy of woman and man And the longing that makes them one." (Between the Dusk of a Summer Night, 13-16)

Happiness is never a negative affair; it is to be won by men who are fully alive, full of the joy of living

A happy man or woman is a better thing to find than a five-pound note. He or she is a radiating focus of goodwill; and their entrance into a room is as though another candle had been lighted.