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Quotes About Joy

What mortal is there, over whose first joys and happiness does not break some storm, dispelling with its icy breath his fanciful illusions, and shattering his altar?
~ Alphonse de Lamartine
Happiness is meant to be shared.
~ Pierre Corneille
It costs nothing to smile. Do it as often as possible
~ Shayan Italia
Domestic happiness, thou only bliss Of paradise that has surviv'd the fall!
~ William Cowper
Happiness is not a house where you can live. (But it is a house you can build.)
~ Joey Comeau
you already possess all you need to be genuinely happy.
~ Sarah Ban Breathnach
There is always the personal, simple happiness that doesn't happen.
~ Mary Lynn Rajskub
Happiness is the most elusive thing for human beings to find.
~ Frederick Lenz
Theodore Wilhelm Engstrom
~ A smile breeds a smile.
Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Happiness is the moment when one doesn't feel pain.
~ Bobbejaan Schoepen
Now the heart is so full that a drop overfills it; We are happy now because God wills it.
~ James Russell Lowell
The power of procreation is not an incidental part of the plan; it is the plan of happiness.
~ Boyd K. Packer
There are no problems, there is only confusion. When confusion passes away, there is only happiness. Happiness is not complicated at all.
~ Frederick Lenz
Joy is not a thing, it is in us.
~ Charles Wagner
We ne'er can be Made happy by compulsion.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Lasting happiness is the offspring of endurance.
~ Chris Heimerdinger
and the smile I'd been waiting for stretched across his face like the sun breaking free of the clouds.
~ Stephenie Meyer
Where there is a mind, there are feelings such as pain, pleasure, and joy. No sentient being wants pain: all wants happiness instead.
~ Dalai Lama
Happiness is something that you don't postpone. If you are postponing happiness - it is something you will probably never experience much of.
~ Frederick Lenz
Happiness is a rare cosmetic.
~ George Whyte-Melville
Delight in splendor is No more than happiness with little: for both Have their appeal.
~ Euripides
One always hurries towards happiness, Monsieur Danglars, because when one has suffered much, one is at pains to believe in it.
~ Alexandre Dumas