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Quotes About Joy

Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.
~ Guillaume Apollinaire
We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.
~ Thornton Wilder
Don't you know how sweet and wonderful life can be?
~ Marvin Gaye
If your heart is beautiful, your face will be beautiful, your life will be beautiful, everything will be beautiful.
~ Swami Satchidananda
What we get from this adventure is just sheer joy. And joy is, after all, the end of life. We do not live to eat and make money.
~ George Leigh Mallory
Why, what is to live? Not to eat and drink and breathe,—but to feel the life in you down all the fibres of being, passionately and joyfully.
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Be as simple as you can be; you will be astonished to see how uncomplicated and happy your life can become.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
Life is going by. Don't waste a minute being negative, offended, or bitter. Choose to be happy.
~ Joel Osteen
Life is a paradise for those who love many things with a passion.
~ Leo Buscaglia
The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.
~ Eudora Welty
It is one of the blessings of wilderness life that it shows us how few things we need in order to be perfectly happy.
~ Horace Kephart
The best things in life are free
~ Luther Vandross
life without love, is no life at all
~ Leonardo da Vinci
Life is short. Eat dessert first.
~ Jacques Torres
You have to be able to look back at your life and say, "Yeah, that was fun."
~ Sammy Davis, Jr.
A joyful life is an individual creation that cannot be copied from a recipe.
~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
I became a wrestler because I loved a certain kind of aggression born, in part, of joy.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
Life is still hard, but it is fair, and there is more joy in it that doesn't feast on heartache.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
I had a vision of that last small expedition, the last group, setting out. Maybe it was just a dozen, maybe less. Tried to imagine it as Silvina had. Trying their best to overcome those obstacles. Each one of those individuals on an epic journey. One they never came back from. But the joy. Even then, there must have been moments of joy and of contentment on the journey. Sanctuaries and times of plenty. It wasn't just a winnowing. It was a life.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
Betly was a successful man and thought that everyone else should love life as much as he did.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
A thing of beauty is a joy forever!{PRICELESS}!
~ Jefferson Davis
success traits: "a good communicator," "a team builder," "energizes others," "has infectious enthusiasm," and "has fun doing it.
~ Jeffrey A. Krames
We are to rejoice, but we are to "rejoice with fear" (Ps. 2:11). Therefore, to view and behave as if Christ Jesus is our "homeboy" is to treat the Holy One of Israel with contempt.
~ Jeffrey D. Johnson
If we want it, we can enjoy the joy of our fidelity to the highest and best that is within us." --sat. afternoon 4/3/10 lds general conference
~ Jeffrey R. Holland