Quotes About Joy

I don't have to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness - it's right in front of me if I'm paying attention and practicing gratitude.

Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness?

Happiness is making your dreams come true.

I know well that happiness is in little things.

It is in his pleasure that a man really lives.

Surfeits of happiness are fatal.

Feel the joy .. feel the happiness.

Supreme happiness consists in self-content; that we may gain this self-content, we are placed upon this earth and endowed with freedom.

True happiness springs from moderation. [Ger., Aus Massigkeit entspringt ein reines Gluck.]

If you want to be happy, you will be.

We use up in the passions the stuff that was given us for happiness.

There has to be a moment when you choose happiness, when you stand up, raise your face towards the sun, and just grab joy and put it in a place where no one can ever take it away from you.

Avarice and Happiness never saw each other, how then should they become acquainted?

Happiness is contagious. Be a carrier!!

Be happy in anticipation of what's coming.

Real happiness lies within you.

It is the pursuit of happiness that makes people unhappy.

The gratification of desire is not happiness.

Altruism is the best source of happiness. There is no doubt about that.

Whom neither shape of danger can dismay, Nor thought of tender happiness betray.

Things and conditions can give you pleasure but they cannot give you joy- joy arises from within.

Decide to be happy, knowing it's an attitude, a habit gained from daily practice, and not a result or payoff.

The more you retrain yourself to choose happiness over fear, the more blissful you will be.

Our first mistake is the belief that the circumstance gives the joy which we give to the circumstance.