Quotes About Joy

L'unica gioia al mondo è cominciare. È bello vivere perché vivere è cominciare, sempre, ad ogni istante. Quando manca questo senso – prigione, malattia, abitudine, stupidità –, si vorrebbe morire.

YaÅŸama sanat?, sevdiklerimize onlarla birlikte olmaktan ne büyük bir zevk duyduÄŸumuzu göstermemekten baÅŸka bir ÅŸey deÄŸildir. Bunu baÅŸaramad?k m?, b?rak?p giderler bizi.

A quei tempi era sempre festa.

Joy develops into the panoramic situation of seeing or feeling the whole ground, the open ground. This open situation has no hint of limitation, of imposed solemnity. And if you do try to treat life as a "serious business," if you try to impose solemnity upon life as though everything is a big deal, then it is funny. Why such a big deal?

You might as well come back to the breath. It is more joyful, more wholesome, and you don't have to be startled by anything.

Compassion has nothing to do with achievement at all. It is spacious and very generous. When a person develops real compassion, he is uncertain whether he is being generous to others or to himself because compassion is environmental generosity, without direction, without 'for me' and without 'for them.' It is filled with joy, spontaneously existing joy, and constant joy in the sense of trust, in the sense that joy contains tremendous wealth, richness.

If you're reading this... Congratulations, you're alive. If that's not something to smile about, then I don't know what is.

And don't forget to enjoy simple stuff like...being alive, which in itself is amazing news. For me, personally, it means I'm not dead, and I'm a fan of that. Optimism can start small, ya know?

Living in a sexpally environment is a tool to evergreen happiness.

Tis a good thing to laugh at any rate, and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness.

El día peor empleado es aquél en que no se ha reído

Happiness: a way station between too little and too much.

Someone who doesn't take herself too seriously and can be a goofball. Because everyone's a nerd inside, I don't care how cool you are.

Also attending Saturday's festivities were Ali MacGraw`s son, filmmaker Josh Evans, and his wife, actress Charis Michelsen-Evans. "I got teary-eyed," Charis says about touring the sanctuary. "To see all the animals so happy, well, it just touches my heart." (Interview at Best Friends animal sanctuary) [2008]

May your heart open. May joy emerge. May love flow through you. May you heal and help others.

May you see the world with wonder. And may you imagine only good things.

But the healing place is within you. Healing is a gift you were granted at birth, just as you were granted others. Use your gifts, child. Use the beauty, the courage, the hope and the love that is in you. Call upon your strength. Use compassion and faith. Even during sad times joy is within you. Bring it forth. Wisdom is there to guide you. Use any one of your gifts and you will rouse the power of your healing place. Use all of them and you will sustain it.

The sixth gift is Joy. May it keep your heart open and filled with light.

But the healing place is with in you. Healing is a gift you were granted at birth, just as you were granted to others. Use your gifts, child. Use the beauty, the courage, the hope and the love that is within you. Call upon your strength. Use compassion and faith. Even during sad times joy is within you. Bring it forth. Wisdom is there to guide you. Use any one of your gifts and you will rouse the power of your healing place. Use all of them and you will sustain it.

There is no sweeter pleasure than to surprise a man by giving him more than he hopes for.

It is good sometimes that the happy of this world should learn, were it only to humble their foolish pride for an instant, that there are higher, wider, and rarer joys than theirs.

When an exquisite poem brings one's eyes to the point of tears, those tears are not evidence of an excess of joy, they are witness far more to an exacerbated melancholy, a disposition of the nerves, a nature exiled among imperfect things, which would like to possess, without delay, a paradise revealed on this very same earth.

What matters an eternity of damnation to someone who has found in one second the infinity of joy?

There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.