Quotes About Joy

The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures.

We can live as we were meant to live - simply, joyously, of and on the earth. We can live with all our effort and with pure happiness.

Be relentless in pursuing your happiness.

Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow.

The test of happiness is gratitude.

Once you have heard a strange audience burst into laughter at a film you directed, you realize what the word joy is all about.

If we want to find happiness, let's stop thinking about gratitude or ingratitude and give for the inner joy of giving.

To me, it's like happiness is about happiness, but happiness is a fight.

I think there are different kinds of happiness. We know when we're happy a lot of the time, but then there are those moments that have more of an afterglow, when the happiness has more depth.

If we are not happy and joyous at this season, for what other season shall we wait and for what other time shall we look?

Make joy and happiness the center of your world.

Happiness is not so much a feeling as it is an attitude

Life delights in life.

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.

Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.

Happiness will never be any greater than the idea we have of it.

...nothing wonderful lasted forever. Joy was as fleeting as a shooting star that crossed the evening sky, ready to blink out at any moment.

Here below is not the land of happiness: I know it now; it is only the land of toil, and every joy which comes to us is only to strengthen us for some greater labor that is to succeed.

Happiness is like rising bubbles -- delightful and inevitably fleeting. Joy is the oxygen -- ever present.

From tiny, tiny waves of joy, one gets to the ocean of happiness, which is called bliss.

Reading is by far the most successful pursuit of happiness.

When large numbers of people share their joy in common, the happiness of each is greater because each adds fuel to the other's flame.

Happiness comes towards those which believe in him