Quotes About Joy

The bluebird carries the sky on his back.

If the day and night be such that you greet them with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, is more elastic, more immortal — that is your success. All nature is your congratulation, and you have cause momentarily to bless yourself.

Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.

Le bonheur est comme l'été : il n'irradie pas. Rien à attendre de son souvenir pour les jours où nous aurons froid. - Il y a des sensations qui écrivent en lettres ineffaçables. Le bonheur écrit blanc.

Surely joy is the condition of life. —HENRY DAVID THOREAU

I am content; that is a blessing greater than riches; and he to whom that is given need ask no more.

All Nature wears one universal grin.

Happiness isn't a destination, it's a mode of travel. Don't worry be happy.

There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

I wake up every day with a smile on my face.

Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.

Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language.

Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.

Beer makes you feel the way you ought to feel without beer.

Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would be realize it, than to ccept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would be realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

It's good to be just plain happy; it's a little better to know that you're happy; but to understand that you're happy and to know why and how… and still be happy, be happy in the being and the knowing, well that is beyond happiness, that is bliss.

Instead of asking 'How much damage will the work in question bring about?' why not ask 'How much good? How much joy?'

Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate, or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.

I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.

The expectation of future glory and the joy of future redemption has its counterpart here and now in the implications for the present life of the believer.

Sometimes the truth hurts. And sometimes it feels real good.

The world's a better place since I chose music.