Quotes About Joy

There's not one major greatest influence on my career. It would be film and great artists and great imagineers - Jim Henson, Walt Disney, Charlie Chaplin, people who understand the joy of the imagination.

I had a very funny family.

happiness is nothing other than the enjoyment of the highest good,

It's more like Christmas, you know, when you get a shot in that looks great and it's exactly what you want. It's a great feeling, and there's nothing like it.

The worst day is just that I did not enter the culinary world sooner. And the best day was seeing the reaction of my one year old daughter when she tasted her first crisp apple!

Isn't it clear that bliss and envy--they are the numerator and the denominator of the fraction known as happiness.

This is how it must be. I knew it with every nerve, and every hair, and every heartbeat, so sweet it verged on pain. And what joy to submit to this "must." A piece of iron must feel such joy as it submits to the precise, inevitable law that draws it to a magnet. Or a stone, thrown up, hesitating for a moment, then plunging headlong back to earth. Or a man, after the final agony, taking a last deep breath--and dying.

Oh, we are going to be so happy away from all the things that almost got us but couldn't quite because we were too smart for them!

All I want to be is very young always and very irresponsible and to feel that my life is my own-to live and be happy and die in my own way to please myself

Why is there happiness and comfort and excitement where you are and no where else in the world?

Happiness doesn't care how you get there.

Life is a game. Happy people are the players. Unhappy people are the spectators. Which would you like to be?

Most recovering alcoholics in early sobriety have trouble believing they'll ever have fun again but if they hang in there, it's amazing how good life can become.

You can gain an unexpected amount of happiness from rediscovering normal, everyday experiences from your past.

I had felt the strange happiness countless times. When a shovel met my hand, the damp of a hemp bag soaked my shoulder or rice weighed down my back, I entered a mindless oblivion, as if I had put on magic shoes and could jump out into the abyss, could even jump into death.

Forgiveness brings inner joy and inner peace.

Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

So it is said, for him who understands Heavenly joy, life is the working of Heaven; death is the transformation of things. In stillness, he and the yin share a single Virtue; in motion, he and the yang share a single flow.

You should find the same joy in one condition as in the other and thereby be free of care, that is all. But now, when the things that happened along take their leave, you cease to be joyful. From this point of view, though you have joy, it will always be fated for destruction.

I obtained life because the time was right. I will lose life because it is time. Those who go quietly with the flow of nature are not worried by either joy or sorrow. People like these were considered in the past as having achieved freedom from bondage. Those who cannot free themselves are constrained by things.

To have a human form of a joyful thing. But in the universe of possible forms, there are others just as good.

I know the joy of fishes In the river Through my own joy, as I go walking Along the same river.

You never abandon a gift that made you cry with joy. Never!

Happiness is not pleasure, it's victory.