Quotes About Joy

Happiness is not a destination. It is a mood, it is not permanent. It comes and goes and if people thought that way then maybe people would find happiness more often.

He who is good is happy.

To be amused by what you read - that is the great spring of happy quotations.

The key to happiness is the decision to be happy

If you understand the great plan of happiness and follow it, what goes on in the world will not determine your happiness.

To be married to a wife who can set type is happiness indeed.

Happiness is at once the best, the noblest, and the pleasantest of things.

Happiness is more important than money any day.

True happiness is not related to external conditions but comes from the unconditioned.

We call "happiness" a certain set of circumstances that makes joy possible. But we call joy that state of mind and emotions that needs nothing to feel happy.

Laughter can help relieve tension in even the heaviest of matters.

The happy have whole days, and those they choose. The unhappy have but hours, and those they lose.

Mere pleasure is at best but fleeting; happiness is abiding, for in the recollection thereof is renewed.

Real happiness is when you are happy for no reason at all; you are simply being.

Sometimes we are only aware of how happy we are when the moment has passed. But now and again, if we are very lucky, we are aware of happiness when it is actually happening.

Happiness is a tiger in your tank and a pussycat in your back seat.

Be happy. If you're successful but unhappy, that's emptiness.

'Tis a good thing to laugh at any rate; and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness.

It is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man.

She was happy, she knew she was happy, and knew she ought to be happy.

Happiness seems to require a modicum of external prosperity.

Happiness is often the result of being too busy to be miserable.

Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.

Being happy is not the only happiness.