Quotes About Joy

Happy people have just as much pain as anyone else, in some cases more. It could even be argued that the happy feel pain more acutely than the unhappy, whose feelings are relatively numb. The real difference in happy people is that they're not trapped by their pain. Rather than settling inside a happy soul, pain moves through it as through a channel, and that channel is joy. Joy keeps pain moving.

The direction of joy isn't always up. Often to be joyful we must go down - down through the noise of racing thoughts, down through swirling chaos of circumstances, down through the deceptive appearances of life, down into the still waters and green pastures of the heart's core.

I guess I watch movies to make myself happier a lot.

My dad loved to laugh. He was very funny and very silly.

When a comedy was on in our apartment, everything was better. Somehow, even the apartment smelled better.

The soul is healed by being with children. FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY, AUTHOR

WE HAVE WITHIN US AN EXTRAORDINARY CAPACITY FOR LOVE, JOY, AND UNSHAKABLE FREEDOM. JACK KORNFIELD, AUTHOR

The seed I would like to plant is that The Mystery, self-transcendence itself, might simply be the skill of truly having fun. Finding wisdom from a much deeper well than what we can create on our own. Being able to lose yourself in an experience, being able to savor the moment without attributing any context. Joy for joy's sake.

Do you know what my favorite part of the game is? The opportunity to play.

I'll tell you one thing. Being with you keeps a girl fit.' The Doctor beamed breathlessly at her. 'Fun to be with and good for you. Gotta be just what the doctor ordered.

My goal in life is to make everyone else happy and when I'm happy I try to make them believe they're the cause of it

Carnival is not a spectacle seen by the people; they live in it, and everyone participates because its very idea embraces all the people. While carnival lasts, there is no other life outside it. During carnival time life is subject only to its laws, that is, the laws of its own freedom.

People dance at any age.

The essence of all art is having pleasure giving pleasure.

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Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring–it was peace.

The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness.

When she first felt her son's groping mouth attach itself to her breast, a wave of sweet vibration thrilled deep inside and radiated to all parts of her body; it was similar to love, but it went beyond a lover's caress, it brought a great calm happiness, a great happy calm.

He who avoids misunderstandings, Amused at the play of his own mind, Is ever joyful.

You can't live a positive life with a negative mind and if you have a positive outcome you have a positive income and just to have more positivity and just to kind of laugh it off.

Those minutes that I'm on stage are the best! Being there and looking at the crowd and seeing their faces, hearing them sing the positive words from the songs.

I manage a toast to the Christmas tree and one to the sweet absurdity in the miracle of the verb to be. Lucky you, lucky me.

Money can't buy you happiness, but it helps you look for it in a lot more places.

Money can't buy happiness, but it helps you look for it in more places.