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Quotes About Joy

Happiness is a by product of service.
~ William J. Critchlow, Jr.
How little has situation to do with happiness.
~ Fanny Burney
All my joys resemble more a momentary intoxication than the real gold of happiness. It was all but an illusion.
~ Richard von Krafft-Ebing
... everyone young going down the long slide To happiness, endlessly.
~ Philip Larkin
God's commandments not only reflect His holiness, they promote our happiness.
~ Max Anders
Both Zen and mysticsm have this beautiful quality of happiness and laughter, which I think is so necessary in our modern age.
~ Frederick Lenz
My father Big Max told me many years ago that 'anything you are good at will contribute to your happiness'. Great advice.
~ Max Walker
But happiness ... happiness grows at our own firesides," she said. "It is not to be picked in strangers' gardens." ~ The House at Riverton
~ Kate Morton
Whoever opined "Money can't buy you happiness" obviously had far too much of the stuff.
~ David Mitchell
To be strong is to be happy!
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Don't confuse fun with fulfillment, or pleasure with happiness.
~ Michael Josephson
But I am happy. And happiness, I have decided, is a noble ambition.
~ Seth Grahame-Smith
Virtue alone is happiness below.
~ Alexander Pope
People don't care about being duped as long as they're happy, which is the shortest form of happiness; hence 'self-duprication' becomes a habit.
~ Criss Jami
It broke the spell. It's not that I stopped being happy. I was still inexplicably, utterly happy. But suddenly the happiness had implications.
~ Rachel Cohn
The kind of happiness that stays with you is the happiness that springs from inward thoughts and emotions.
~ William Lyon Phelps
Happiness is this place that, once you arrive there, you have nothing else to do. You get bored. Passion is this up and down; it's like a rollercoaster, you know, and much more interesting to me.
~ Paulo Coelho
Even the lowliest, provided he is whole, can be happy, and in his own . way, perfect.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
You don't need others to change in order to be happy.
~ Deepak Chopra
But does not happiness come from the soul within?
~ Honore de Balzac
Our goal is to enjoy, not to achieve perfection
~ Susan Jeffers
When we ... devote ourselves to the strict and unsparing performance of duty, ihen happiness comes of itself.
~ Wilhelm von Humboldt
I think happiness is a goal all of us can agree on. Let's face it - we all would like to be happy.
~ Joyce Meyer
The thought has cheered me, and I'd like to hang onto that. Must protect my little pockets of happiness.
~ Sara Gruen