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Quotes About Joy

Life is too short, grudges are a waste of perfect happiness, laugh when you can, apologize when you should and let go of what you can't change.
~ Unknown
I used to worry about what life was for - now being alive seems sufficient reason.
~ Joanna Field
The world is a playground, and life is pushing my swing.
~ Unknown
I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
This life is not for complaint, but for satisfaction
~ Henry David Thoreau
Having friends around for a pleasant evening is one of life's most cherished joys as far as I am concerned. But when those with me are fellow believers, how much greater that joy is, for we know that it's rekindled, one day in eternity.
~ James Stewart
Life is a tragedy full of joy.
~ Bernard Malamud
Life's more amusing than we thought.
~ Andrew Lang
While the laughter of joy is in full harmony with our deeper life, the laughter of amusement should be kept apart from it. The danger is too great of thus learning to look at solemn things in a spirit of mockery, and to seek in them opportunities for exercising wit.
~ Lewis Carroll
Live thy life as it were spoil and pluck the joys that fly.
~ Proverb
No one ever finds life worth living - one has to make it worth living
~ Winston Churchill
It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.
~ Laura Ingalls Wilder
Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.
~ Emily Dickinson
To find your own way is to follow your bliss. This involves analysis, watching yourself and seeing where real deep bliss is -- not the quick little excitement , but the real deep, life-filling bliss.
~ Joseph Campbell
Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.
~ Thomas Carlyle
Life is short, and it is here to be lived.
~ Kate Winslet
If it can be verified, we don't need faith... Faith is for that which lies on the other side of reason. Faith is what makes life bearable, with all its tragedies and ambiguities and sudden, startling joys.
~ Unknown
The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Life is a precious gift. Don't waste it being unhappy, dissatisfied, or anything else you can be.
~ Unknown
Life does not have to be perfect to be wonderful.
~ Annette Funicello
One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
~ Robert A Heinlein
For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.
~ William Blake
The best thing you've ever done for me¦is to help me take my life less seriously¦cuz its only life after all¦
~ Indigo Girls