Quotes About Joy

One joy dispels a hundred cares.

To study and constantly, is this not a pleasure? To have friends come from far away places, is this not a joy? If people do not recognize your worth, but this does not worry you, are you not a true gentleman?

The Master said, "To study, and then in a timely fashion to practice what you have learned—is this not satisfying? To have companions arrive from afar—is this not a joy? To remain unrecognized by others and yet remain free of resentment—is this not the mark of the gentleman?" (Analects 1.1)

The Master said, "What a worthy man was Yan Hui! Living in a narrow alley, subsisting upon meager bits of rice and water—other people could not have borne such hardship, and yet it never spoiled Hui's joy. What a worthy man was Hui!" (Analects 6.11)

Poor food and water for dinner, a bent arm for a pillow – that is where joy resides. For me, wealth and renown without honor are nothing but drifting clouds.

With coarse grain to eat, with water to drink, and my bended arm for a pillow: I still have joy in the midst of these things

Knowing it does not compare with loving it; loving it does not compare with delighting in it.

Non esiste una strada verso la felicità. La felicità è la strada.

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life

Choose a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life

Puritanism is the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy'?

Their thoughts flowed together in an incoherent torrent of relief and joy and delight, colliding, crashing, looping in a cascade of longing and explanations and desire as overwhelming, as drenching as the deluge of voices had been, but wonderful, wonderful, wonderful, and she was going under, she was going to drown.

bring to them and the world the peace and joy of Christ through the healing and prevention of emotional suffering.

six emotions make up the first group: love, desire and joy in response to whatever my senses recognize

To those of you who are yet to plunge into the zygote pool and want to know what both plumbless horror and pure love feels like, have yourself a baby...

This was the perfect day of his childhood. This the day to shape the days upon.

It must surely be true that there is no such collective domain of joy as there is of sorrow. You cant be sure that another man's happiness resembles your own. But where the collective of pain is concerned there can be little doubt at all.

There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road thereto, said the Mennonite.

He is dancing, dancing. He says he'll never die.

And she said that since this was so nor could it be altered one was better to follow one's heart in joy and in misery than simply to seek comfort for there was none. To seek it was only to welcome in the misery and to know little else. She said that these were things all women knew yet seldom spoke of. Lastly she said that if women were drawn to rash men it was only that in their secret hearts they knew that a man who would not kill for them was of no use at all.

Men are born for games. Nothing else. Every child knows that play is nobler than work. He

And that would be my life. And I would be happy.

There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road thereto

Anytime two human beings find genuine pleasure, joy, and love, the stars smile and the universe is enriched.