Quotes About Joy

A man's true delight is to do the things he was made for.

This much is certain: when a man is happy, happy to the core and root of beatitude, he is no longer conscious of himself or anything else.

A man who farts in bed . . . is a man who loves life.

A young man of pleasure is a man of pains.

We have to change this whole earth into a tremendous festival, and it is possible because man brings all that is needed to transform this earth into a paradise.

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

A man's happiness consists in the free exercise of his highest faculties.

For pleasure is a state of soul, and to each man that which he is said to be a lover of is pleasant.

I begin to see that a man's got to be in his own heaven to be happy.

Others may know pleasure, but pleasure is not happiness. It has no more importance than a shadow following a man.

To cleave that sea [the Aegean] in the gentle autumnal season, murmuring the name of each islet, is to my mind the joy most apt to transport the heart of man into paradise.

But Jesus has been depicted as a serious man. And Christians say he never laughed. Then what is the function of an Enlightened man? If Jesus cannot laugh, then who is going to laugh in this world?

Man is troubled by what might be called the Dog Wish, a strange and involved compulsion to be as happy and carefree as a dog

Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man.

To admire nothing, (as most are wont to do;) Is the only method that I know, To make men happy, and to keep them so.

I understood how a man who has nothing left in this world still may know bliss, be it only for a brief moment, in the contemplation of his beloved.

Man was made for joy and woe, and when this we rightly know through the world we safely go. Joy and woe are woven fine, a clothing for the soul to bind.

Happy is the man who has acquired the love of walking for its own sake!

To laugh is proper to man.

One inch of joy surmounts of grief a span, Because to laugh is proper to the man.

Life everlasting in a state of happiness is the greatest desire of all men.

The man that loves and laughs must sure do well.

A good-natured man has the whole world to be happy out of.

Call not that man wretched, who whatever ills he suffers, has a child to love.