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Quotes About Joy

In short, the world abounds with simple delusions which we may call "happiness", if we be but able to entertain them.
~ H. P. Lovecraft
I relate to happiness as an ecstatic moment - something you don't create, you encounter.
~ Yoko Ono
You may just miss an awesome ride if you only look at happiness as a destination.
~ Ingrid Weir
He that sympathizes in all the happiness of others, perhaps himself enjoys the safest happiness.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
The reverie would not last if it were not nourished by the images of the sweetness of living, by the illusions of happiness.
~ Gaston Bachelard
Pass us by, and forgive us our happiness
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
I want fame more than I can tell. But more than I want fame I want happiness.
~ Mary MacLane
Feel that you are happy without any cause for happiness.
~ Goswami Kriyananda
When you see # happiness in the happiness of others, that's when you will be truly happy.
~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
To possess is past the instant; we achieve the joy, immortality contented, were anomaly.
~ Emily Dickinson
I loved most when his eyelashes twitched and he blinked, and suddenly happiness was there inside his eyes. Unmistakable. Like a single word printed on a clean white page.
~ Augusten Burroughs
I'll have to calm down a bit. Or else I'll burst with happiness
~ Tove Jansson
It must be that there is something in the hearts of human beings, some natural fluid perhaps, that insists on happiness, even confronted with the most powerful arguments against it.
~ Ben H. Winters
I value my health and my happiness. And I've realized exercise can give me both of those things.
~ Lena Dunham
To get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
~ Mark Twain
There is no duty so much underrated as the duty of being happy.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
Mirth is better than fun and happiness is better than mirth.
~ William Blake
He felt gladness roar through his soul.
~ Stephen King, Misery
Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home… it's your responsibility to love it, or change it.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation foolish preparation?
~ Jane Austen
Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom.
~ Benjamin Franklin
That sanguine expectation of happiness which is happiness itself.
~ Jane Austen
Happiness is not being pained in body nor troubled in mind.
~ Thomas Jefferson
All who would win joy must share it happiness was born a twin.
~ Lord Byron