Quotes About Joy

Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind.

The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.

Your life is a sheer gift.

The way to find out about happiness is to keep your mind on those moments when you feel most happy, when you are really happy — not excited, not just thrilled, but deeply happy. This requires a little bit of self-analysis. What is it that makes you happy? Stay with it, no matter what people tell you. This is what is called following your bliss.

Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning. Love is a friendship set to music.

Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.

Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy. The warrior's approach is to say "yes" to life: "yea" to it all.

Poets are simply those who have made a profession ans a lifestyle of being in touch with their bliss.

I don't think people are really seeking the meaning of Life. I think we're seeking an experience of being alive…we want to feel the rapture of being alive

Tragedy is the shattering of the forms and of our attachment to the forms; comedy, the wild and careless, inexhaustible joy of life invincible.

you ever think that it is this absence of the religious experience of ecstasy, of joy, this denial of transcendence in our society, that has turned so many young people to the use of drugs?

From the standpoint of the Olympians, eon after eon of earthly history rolls by, revealing ever the harmonious form of the total round, so that where men see only change and death, the blessed behold immutable form, world without end. But now the problem is to maintain this cosmic standpoint in the face of an immediate earthly pain or joy.

Tragedy is the shattering of the forms and our attachment to the forms; comedy, the wild and careless, inexhaustible joy of life invincible.

CAMPBELL: Poets are simply those who have made a profession and a lifestyle of being in touch with their bliss. Most

Wherever you are—if you are following your bliss, you are enjoying that refreshment, that life within you, all the time.

Follow your bliss.

The conquest of the fear of death is the recovery of life's joy. One can experience an unconditional affirmation of life only when one has accepted death, not as contrary to life but as an aspect of life.

In Buddhist systems, more especially those of Tibet, the meditation Buddhas appear in two aspects, one peaceful and the other wrathful. If you are clinging fiercely to your ego and its little temporal world of sorrows and joys, hanging on for dear life, it will be the wrathful aspect of the deity that appears. It will seem terrifying. But the moment your ego yields and gives up, that same meditation Buddha is experienced as a bestower of bliss.

A day without laughter is a day wasted.

Turn around, Piglet. Step lightly, Pooh. This silly ol' dance is perfect for two.

We didn't know we were making memories, we were just having fun

The more - the merrier.

Je hoeft je heus niet te verontschuldigen voor Vrolijkheid en Blijheid enzo. Die dingen komen nu eenmaal voor. Sombere raad van Iejoor

Sometimes the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.