Quotes About Joy

The old wanderlust had gotten into his blood, the joy of the unbound life, the joy of seeking, of hoping without limit.

Spiritual growth yields lasting joy, peace which passes all understanding.

I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time I mean joy.

The world was hard and fierce, but it also contained tomato sandwiches, and if that didn't make it a world worth living in, your standards were unreasonably high.

The sky and the strong wind have moved the spirit inside me till I am carried away trembling with joy.

Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.

The kingdoms of fantasy and mirth are longlasting and not of this world.

Returning to life was not easy, for joy had to find its long unused paths again.

conscious that her lord approved Her going, with great rapture moved, [pg 131] Hastened within, without delay

Who loves his people's good to see? The store of bliss, the living mine Where brightest joys

Shake it 'til the moon becomes the sun.

sometime when your life is so good, you'll want to make your happiness as simple as possible.

The fullness of existence, life's true richness, does not consist solely in health and happiness but in an ever-expanding range of joy and sorrow; and the broader the range, the richer life becomes.

Christmas isn't just a day. It's a frame of mind.

I realized that rewards are not the goal- if one seeks the ultimate it will elude you. The reward is life itself, in its richness, in its sadness, and joy.

Essential oils are like little packages of positivity.

If there exist fortunate people, if from time to time the wild sun of joy soars towards foreign lands in a sweet whirling of ecstasy — then where are the words which might tell of this? And if in the world there exists a beauty for enchantment, then how might one describe it? ("The Poison Garden")

deeper joy comes from peace and love and knowing you are living the life you were meant to live. You

You see, happiness cannot be the sole aim of your existense. Happiness is a by-product of a life well lived.

It's a marvelous night for a moondance!

Staying home is an ecological imperative, an ethical imperative. It is also a joyful option. It is the practice of oikonomia as the art of living. It is earth democracy in action, cultivating and expanding the freedoms of all beings.

But my mom was a pianist, and she taught piano out of her house. I was just so excited, being a little kid and having all these other kids come to my house twice a week. I thought it was a big party.

I don't have the recipe for happiness, but I think the engine is simply having the desire.

I gave my smile its liberty, with no curfew nor bounds.