Quotes About Joy

Happiness is not the reward of virtue," said Spinoza in his book Ethics, "but virtue itself; nor do we delight in happiness because we restrain our lusts; but, on the contrary, because we delight in it, therefore are we able to restrain them.

If you are to be happy at all, you must be happy—period! Not happy "because of.

Perhaps most important of all, we will learn how chronically unhappy people have learned to enjoy life by "experiencing" happiness!

Today I am more convinced than ever that what each of us really wants, deep down, is more life. Happiness, success, peace of mind

each of us really wants, deep down, is more life. Happiness, success, peace of mind, or whatever your own conception of supreme good may be, is experienced in its essence as more life.

The Conquest of Happiness, Bertrand Russell

Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings and not count the years.

It's doneon a diamond,and for fun.It's abouthome, and it'sabout run.

Joy is a freedom. It helps a person to find his/her own liberation. The person who is joyous takes responsibility for the time he/she takes up and the space that he/she occupies. You share it! Some of you have it ... you share it! That is what joy is! When you continue to give it away you will still have so much more of it.

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

My life has been one great big joke A dance that's walked A song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke When I think about myself.

I consider myself to have a decent sense of humor. What's life without a sense of humor?

Ljubav je valjda jedina stvar na svijetu koju ne treba objašnjavati ni tražiti joj razlog. Pa ipak to ?inim, makar samo zato da još jednom pomenem ?ovjeka koji je unio toliko radosti u moj život.

Ništa ?ovjeku nije važnije od svog mira i od sre?e koju sâm stvori. Zato je treba ?uvati, tu svoju sre?u, opkoliti je šan?evima, i nikome ne dozvoliti da je ugrozi.

A onda mi je došlo do svijesti da je opasno i ovo radosno posmatranje, nisam se više osje?ao nadmo?an, ni skriven, oživjelo je nešto neželjeno u meni. Nije to bila strast, ve? možda gore od toga: uspomena.

Suze mi teku od smijeha. Ako prestanem da se smijem, ostat ?e samo suze.

Even then I knew that happiness was something in which to plunge headlong, and damn the torpedoes

In the meantime, Bob was jumping up and down and pronouncing it was all "good good good," so good that he couldn't stop giggling with self-satisfied glee like a demented toddler.

We couldn't believe our luck, and for a little while it felt like we were on some big train rolling down a hill, and all we cared about was how great it felt to be going fast.

Summer was for pleasure and boredom, not chaos and doubt.

Even if you yourself were unhappy and anxious, whenever you glimpsed happiness in your child, you suddenly became happy too.

interrupted by a couple of familiar shrieks that you might hear in a restaurant when there's a large group of women at a table. Everyone here knew that shriek, which signaled the happiness of women spending time together.

Oh tragedy, oh tragedy, the boy said to himself, but he was smiling a little. Oh joy, oh joy. Hearts and stars exploded in the darkness above their heads.

And the child who was happy with herself meant the parents had won the jackpot.