Quotes About Joy

I am too honest to pretend to feelings I don't have. I am happy when I make you happy and when you do not trouble my happiness.

The truest measure of life is not in its length but the fullness in which it is lived.

I wondered how many times I would be told 'Be joyous' before I died. Can a man arrange the sorrows and joys of his life to the Christian calendar?

One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.

The little fellow had been about to feel himself a conqueror, and he found himself held within two imprisoning arms, impotent. The expression of joy, anxiety, and hope, which had interested me so much faded from his face and left on it the stupid expression of the child who knows that others will act for him.

Our joy is to touch, and conquer souls, and this is the one prize which can bring us a true compensation.

The child's is a type of life in which work, the fulfilment of one's task, brings joy and happiness, whereas in the field of adult, work is something which is usually a rather painful process.

Happiness is sometimes an illusion. Real happiness lasts more than a moment...

It's easy to impress me. I don't need a fancy party to be happy. Just good friends, good food, and good laughs. I'm happy. I'm satisfied. I'm content.

greet each new day as an opportunity to bring fresh joy into your life. Look beyond today to the future and trust the universe to bring you what you truly need.

In the midst of hate, I found there was, within me, an invincible love. In the midst of tears, I found there was, within me, an invincible smile. In the midst of chaos, I found there was, within me, an invincible calm. I realized, through it all, that . . . In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. —Albert Camus

Dogs are the best people!

Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called "All the Things That Could Go Wrong."

Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called "All the Things That Could Go Wrong.

Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.

Once we love, we cannot revoke it,' she said. 'We can only glory in what it brings -- pain as well as joy, grief as well as hope.

You can pursue happiness, or you can create it.

All my life through, the new sights of nature made me rejoice like a child.

An orgasm -- for all that ails you. -Kelly's thoughts

Babies have the power to make grumpy people happy because they love you no matter what. Dogs are that way, too.

A smile takes but a moment, but the memory of it lasts forever.

The idea is to make the ingredients sing, not a grand opera, but a jolly chanson.

Before I die I hope everything happens to me. I want to feel rotten and bawl, and then I want to feel good and laugh.

To be afraid of sorrow is to be afraid of joy also.