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Quotes About Joy

I grew up near Disneyland, and my brother's an animator, so I was always really inspired by bright, cartoony colors and that whole feeling of happiness.
~ Gwen Stefani
Happiness is essentially a gift; we are not the forgers of our own felicity.
~ Josef Pieper
Unhappiness is bondage; therefore, happiness is freedom.
~ Lauren Oliver
Be happy without picking flaws.
~ Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
Our purest form of joy comes when people we envy get hurt. That most genuine form of joy.
~ Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted
Every day has its great grief or its small anxiety. ... One cloud is dispelled, another forms. There is hardly one day in a hundred of real joy and bright sunshine.
~ Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
It's lovely to see people so happy.
~ Louisa May Alcott, Jo's Boys
Suffering is not a prerequisite for happiness.
~ Judy Tatelbaum
Wisdom is the most important part of happiness.
~ Sophocles
one would suffer a great deal to be happy.
~ Mary Wortley Montagu
Children at once accept joy and happiness with quick familiarity, being themselves naturally all happiness and joy.
~ Victor Hugo
My vision is to inspire others to find purpose and happiness.
~ Tiffany Alvord
Strive to realize a state of inward happiness, independent of circumstances.
~ James Pierrepont Greaves
The thirst after happiness is never extinguished in the heart of man.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Happiness is a privilege.
~ Jay Leno
O kindle the fire of happiness ! Therein I shall see The door of friendliness, The room of greatness And the palace of godness. I shall see, I shall see.
~ Sri Chinmoy
Happiness is egotistical.
~ Alexandre Dumas
Of all the gifts You have offered to God, Your happiness-gift He treasures most.
~ Sri Chinmoy
Effort is not a means to lead us to happiness. Effort itself is happiness
~ Leo Tolstoy
There is no one way to Happiness. Happiness is the way! It's inside your head FIRST and everyplace else second
~ Jeffrey Gitomer
It is not great, but little good-haps that make up happiness.
~ Jean Paul
Must protect my little pockets of happiness.
~ Sara Gruen
He who lives happiest has forgotten most
~ Robert Anton Wilson
Happiness has little to do with what is going on around you, and a lot to do with what is going on inside you.
~ Alan Cohen