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Quotes About Joy

I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, "This is what it is to be happy.
~ Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
Sunshine on my shoulders makes me happy.
~ John Denver
The very nature of Joy makes nonsense of our common distinction between having and wanting.
~ C. S. Lewis
A sweet child is the sweetest thing in nature.
~ Charles Lamb
Eventually, you have to stop picking a fight with your true nature and decide to seek the joy that underlies it all.
~ Danielle LaPorte
Immerse yourself in nature's symphony and let your senses burst with joy.
~ Tom Brown, Jr.
If we wish our nature to be free and joyous, we should bring our activities into same order.
~ Vinoba Bhave
If you love to read, if you love nature and if you have a dog, you've got it made.
~ Brooke Astor
May books and nature be their early joy!
~ William Wordsworth
All Nature wears one universal grin.
~ Henry Fielding
'Tis my faith that every flower Enjoys the air it breathes!
~ William Wordsworth
Look at the trees, look at the birds, look at the clouds, look at the stars-and if you have eyes you will be able to see that the whole existence is joyful.
~ Rajneesh
Look in the perfumes of flowers and of nature for peace of mind and joy of life.
~ Wang Wei
The Author's Way of sending forth his Second Part of the Pilgrim. Some things are of that nature as to make One's fancy chuckle, while his heart doth ache.
~ John Bunyan
I realized marvelling at nature was a deep pleasure of mine.
~ Paul McCartney
The more you go within, the more you understand your true nature, and the more joy and happiness you feel in your life.
~ Brian Weiss
Nature is also great fun. To pretend that nature isn't fun is to miss much of the joy of being alive.
~ Diane Ackerman
Anything's possible in Human Nature ...Love. Madness. Hope. Infinite joy.
~ Arundhati Roy
It lies in human nature that where you experience your first laughs, you also remember the age kindly.
~ Vaclav Havel
I intended to portray the joy, anger, sorrow and pleasure of our lives through four seasons and through the life of a monk who lives in a temple on Jusan Pond surrounded only by nature.
~ Kim Ki-duk
Like a fragrance to a flower, true happiness is an expression of your unconditional self...the real you.
~ Robert Holden
Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
~ Alexander Pope
If you want to say how can we step into childhood and make it better for them, I would start at the activity level. I'd like to say let your kids go out and play.
~ C. Everett Koop
The adventure of the sun is the great natural drama by which we live, and not to have joy in it and awe of it, not to share in it, is to close a dull door on nature's sustaining and poetic spirit.
~ Henry Beston