Quotes About Joy

Negative visualization is therefore a wonderful way to regain our appreciation of life and with it our capacity for joy. T

This might sound a bit silly, but to someone who has not lost his capacity for joy, the world is a wonderful place. To such a person, glasses are amazing; to everyone else, a glass is just a glass, and it is half empty to boot.

In particular, were I to acquire a new car, a fine wardrobe, a Rolex watch, and a bigger house, I am convinced that I would experience no more joy than I presently do—and might even experience less.

easiest way for us to gain happiness is to learn how to want the things we already have.

Jesus promised His disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy and in constant trouble.

Whenever religion becomes a depressing affair of burdens and prohibitions, it ceases to be true religion.

And I made a rural pen,And I stain'd the water clear,And I wrote my happy songsEvery child may joy to hear.

Piping down the valleys wild,Piping songs of pleasant glee,On a cloud I saw a child,And he laughing said to me:"Pipe a song about a Lamb."So I piped with merry cheer;"Piper, pipe that song again."So I piped; he wept to hear.

Man was made for joy and woe,And when this we rightly knowThrough the world we safely go.

I'll shade him from the heat till he can bearTo lean in joy upon our Father's knee;And then I'll stand and stroke his silver hair,And be like him and he will then love me.

The Angel that presided o'er my birthSaid, "Little creature, formed of joy and mirth,Go love without the help of any thing on earth."

The spirits of the air live on the smells Of fruit; and joy, with pinions light, roves round The gardens, or sits singing in the trees...

How sweet I roam'd from field to field,And tasted all the summer's pride,Till I the prince of love beheld,Who in the sunny beams did glide!

Love to faults is always blind,Always is to joy inclin'd,Lawless, wing'd, and unconfin'd,And breaks all chains from every mind.

He loves to sit and hear me sing,Then, laughing, sports and plays with me;Then stretches out my golden wing,And mocks my loss of liberty.

When the voices of children are heard on the greenAnd laughing is heard on the hill,My heart is at rest within my breastAnd everything else is still.

He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sun rise.

Every Night and every Morn Some to Misery are born. Every Morn and every Night Some are born to Sweet Delight, Some are born to Endless Night.

He who kisses joy as it flies by will live in eternity's sunrise.

Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.

However long your stay on this small planet lasts, and whatever happens during it, the most important thing is that-from time to time-you feel life's sweet caress.

There is no season such delight can bring As summer, autumn, winter and the spring.

The euphoria of quitting a bad job was rivaled only by good sex.

Perhaps all pleasure is only relief.