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Quotes About Joy

You feel completely in control when you hear a wave of laughter coming back at you that you have caused.
~ Gilda Radner
Pardon me, my friends, I have ventured to paint my happiness on the wall.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Both hurting and happiness make me feel more alive, but as I get older it seems that hurting's the low hanging fruit. So I pick it.
~ Ze Frank
Fireside happiness, to hours of ease Blest with that charm, the certainty to please.
~ Samuel Rogers
Real happiness is so simple that most people do not recognize it. It is derived from the simplest, the quietest, the most unpretentious things in the world.
~ Orison Swett Marden
Happiness is a wondrous commodity: the more you give, the more you have.
~ Madame de Stael
If I have caused just one person to wipe away a tear of laughter, that's my reward.
~ Victor Borge
Happiness comes in moments, & then it's gone until the next time. Could be years. But sadness settles it.
~ Dennis Lehane
I'm trying to, with my stand-up and with the podcast, give people these little stupid things to give them happiness. I know that sounds lofty or like I'm starting a cult, but I kind of feel that way.
~ Pete Holmes
Beauty comes from the happiness within.
~ Liv Tyler
The only way on earth to multiply happiness is to divide it.
~ Paul Scherrer
It's a great game - the pursuit of happiness.
~ Eugene O'Neill
The single fact of existing is already a true happiness.
~ Blaise Cendrars
Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
~ Don Marquis
The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment.
~ Doug Larson
You get to a certain age where you prepare yourself for happiness. Sometimes you never remember to actually get happy.
~ John Mayer
Of all the means to insure happiness throughout the whole life, by far the most important is the acquisition of friends.
~ Epicurus, A Guide To Happiness
Happiness does not depend on outward circumstances, but on the state of the heart.
~ J.C. Ryle, A Call to Prayer
The only way to cure the disease is to find happiness and meaning now.
~ Marshall Goldsmith
One's happiness is very largely a question of state of mind rather than the world you are looking at.
~ Geoff Dyer
People who dream when they sleep at night know of a special kind of happiness which the world of the day holds not, a placid ecstasy, and ease of heart, that are like honey on the tongue.
~ Isak Dinesen
Find expression for a sorrow, and it will become dear to you. Find expression for a joy, and you will intensify its ecstasy.
~ Oscar Wilde
How would you know what happy is if you've never been otherwise.
~ Malcolm Forbes
To call a thing good not a day longer than it appears to us good, and above all not a day earlier - that is the only way to keep joy pure.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche