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Quotes About Joy

Find someone who makes you smile, because it only takes a smile to make a day better
~ Paulo Coelho
Happiness is there for the taking - and the making.
~ Oprah Winfrey
Younger people tend to associate happiness more with excitement and the future, while older people tend to associate happiness with peacefulness in the present.
~ Chip Conley
Joy never feasts so high as when the first course is of misery.
~ John Suckling
Joy is more divine than sorrow, for joy is bread and sorrow is medicine.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Nobody can make you happy but yourself. Things occupy us, people occupy us, but they don't make us happy. If we are honest, what makes us happy is to experience spirit.
~ Frederick Lenz
My capacity for happiness," he added, "you could fit into a matchbox without taking out the matches first
~ Douglas Adams
Happiness is not the result of circumstance. It is the result of loving others.
~ Lloyd D. Newell
The happiest is he who suffers the least pain; the most miserable, he who enjoys the least pleasure.
~ Henri Rousseau
If happiness is anticipation with certainty, we were happy.
~ Toni Morrison
My resolution is to make positivity, thankfulness and happiness my new mantra.
~ Francisco Costa
Surely happiness is reflective, like the light of heaven.
~ Washington Irving
Oh, this happiness is strong stuff.
~ J. D. Salinger
Gratitude is a word that I cherish. Gratitude is what defines the happiness and humanity of the human being.
~ Elie Wiesel
Present joys are more to flesh and blood Than a dull prospect of a distant good.
~ John Dryden
Happiness always returns to port . . .
~ Duong Thu Huong
Freedom from suffering is a great happiness.
~ Nhat Hanh
Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.
~ Dag Hammarskjold
Alas! sorrow from happiness is oft evolved.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There must be some mixture of happiness in everything but sin.
~ Lydia Sigourney
Oh who can tell the range of joy or set the bounds of beauty?
~ Sara Teasdale
So this is happiness, that journeyman.
~ Arthur Lynch
It is God's giving if we laugh or weep.
~ Sophocles
The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness
~ David Hume