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Quotes About Joy

Ultimately, meditation can allow us to have happiness independent of conditions and that is one heck of an awesome claim
~ Shinzen Young
If you don't develop your skill at enjoying what you have, you won't be any happier when you get more.
~ Barbara De Angelis
Where there is purpose, there is happiness as well.
~ Swami Abhedananda
Constant happiness is the philosopher's stone of the soul.
~ Voltaire
Happiness is sitting down to watch some slides of your neighbor's vacation and finding out that he spent two weeks in a nudist colony.
~ Johnny Carson
Happiness isn't good enough for me! I demand euphoria!
~ Bill Watterson
Happiness is not something you find, but rather something you create.
~ Zig Ziglar
Now if the harvest is over, And the world cold, Give me the bonus of laughter, As I lose hold.
~ John Betjeman
Happiness is an equivalent for all troublesome things.
~ Epictetus
He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We must, therefore, pursue the things that make for happiness, seeing that when happiness is present, we have everything; but when it is absent, we do everything to possess it.
~ Epicurus
Happiness is a vine that takes root and grows within the heart, never outside it.
~ Khalil Gibran
Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
~ Leo Tolstoy
The less you want, the richer you are. The more you need in order to be happy, the more miserable you'll be.
~ Yanni
Chasing records doesn't keep me on my bike. Happiness does.
~ Lance Armstrong
The air is like a butterfly With frail blue wings. The happy earth looks at the sky And sings.
~ Joyce Kilmer
Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.
~ Charlie Chaplin
Happiness is the twinkle in your grandmother's eye as you reverse the tractor off her legs.
~ Hugh Laurie
Happiness is like the first blissful intoxication of morphine.It doesn't last very long.
~ Susan Kay
If each one of us could make just one other happy, the whole world would know happiness.
~ Georges Simenon
The days that make us happy make us wise
~ John Masefield
Happiness is a question of attitude, not a question of what's happening out there.
~ Goswami Kriyananda
JOY goes against the foundations of mathematics: it multiplies when we divide.
~ Paulo Coelho
To be happy--one must find one's bliss
~ Gloria Vanderbilt