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Quotes About Joy

But I also say this: that light is an invitation to happiness, and that happiness, when it's done right, is a kind of holiness, palpable and redemptive.
~ Mary Oliver
Right in the difficult we must have our joys, our happiness, our dreams: there against the depth of this background, they stand out, there for the first time we see how beautiful they are.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Meditation is the direct means of enjoying the greatest happiness and is the only means to quench the thirst for happiness on earth.
~ Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Exercise may very well be the most effective instant happiness booster of all activities.
~ Sonja Lyubomirsky
The desire for true happiness is nothing to feel ashamed about.
~ Thanissaro Bhikkhu
I'd catch moonlight in a bottle, if we could drink a toast to happiness.
~ Toby Keith
Happiness ain't a thing in itself - it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant.
~ Mark Twain
Happiness never becomes a habit.
~ Marilyn Monroe
The quest for God is the quest for true happiness.
~ Harold Klemp
Happiness must be grown in one's own garden.
~ Mary Engelbreit
It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.
~ Denis Waitley
Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.
~ Dr. Benjamin Spock
Even the darkest moments of the liturgy are filled with joy, and Ash Wednesday, the beginning of the lenten fast, is a day of happiness, a Christian feast.
~ Thomas Merton
Money can't buy happiness, but neither can poverty.
~ Leo Rosten
The sacrifice of pleasures is of course itself a pleasure.
~ Muriel Spark
When you're in love, you're so happy that you want to tell people about it. But now I have to censor myself. You need to protect the happiness you have.
~ Emily Blunt
Grab it while you can — grab every scrap of happiness while you can
~ Noel Coward
Musical composition should bring happiness and joy to people and make them forget their troubles.
~ Horace Silver
Release the joy that is inside of another, and you release the joy that is inside of you.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
Happiness is the overall experience of pleasure and meaning
~ Tal Ben-Shahar
Lasting happiness starts with one question...what can I celebrate?
~ Michael Beckwith
Happiness is not an acquisition - it is a skill. We do not experience happiness because of what we get. We experience happiness because of how we live each moment.
~ Barbara De Angelis
There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
~ Henry Ford
To live happily is an inward power of the soul.
~ Marcus Aurelius