Quotes About Joy

It is a simple but sometimes forgotten truth that the greatest enemy to present joy and high hopes is the cultivation of retrospective bitterness.

We do it for the fun and the fact it makes us feel closer to loved ones both living and dead.

A veces ando errante en la niebla y en mil vacilaciones y confusiones, y a menudo me siento abandonado [...] En el fondo, lo único que da orgullo y alegría al espíritu son los esfuerzos superados con bravura y los sufrimientos soportados con paciencia

He probably was happy, too, to get away from his mother!)

We have no quarrel with the Freudians, but we do not put the same stress on sexual matters as they do. Sex is very important, but if it were the single most important thing in life, it would all be much simpler, and I doubt if mankind would have worked so hard to live far beyond the age when sex is the greatest joy.

one elderly teacher, who had seen generations of neophytes pass through these early tests, was known to have sobbed a little, in professional ecstasy of joy, when describing Hector's lesson on the Lowest Common Denominator.

I was young once, and I wandered alone; The wide road was bewildering; I didn't know much. Then I met a friend and I felt very rich, For man is ever the joy of man.

Laughter went on and on, like sunlight and stone, even if the human beings who laughed did not.

Not all honey— she had concluded— had a specific use beyond what all honey is good for, sweetness and salves. But this honey, it was somehow so strong that it must be for something, though she had still not learnt what it was. The best she had come to was that this honey was for joy...

I don't know what I'm doing, but I'm here and I'm listening; and there is still joy in this world.

The burden she carried was different from yours, and it had worn on her for many years. When I knew her she had forgotten joy, although I believe Arlbeth gave her a little back again.

Even Mongo liked him, although Mongo likes everybody. (Also Mongo was so thrilled with himsel for staying in the dog bed till I'd released him that nothing was going to blow his mood.)

She had courage enough, but little imagination; or she would not have forgotten joy, whatever the weight on her.

Their delight in each other after they became the sort of lovers that minstrels make ballads about (although it was certainly unpoetic of them to be married to each other) was so apparent that it spilled over into their dealings with their people; and the court became a more joyful place than it had been for many a long royal generation.

Some of life's best pleasures are simplest ones. Enrich your life with more of them and your heart will be happy.

Never forget the power of music. Spend a little time with it every day

William James said, 'We don't laugh because we are happy. We are happy because we laugh.

when you were born, you cried while the world rejoiced. Live your life in such a way that when you die the world cries while you rejoice." We live in an age when we have forgotten what life is all about.

With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?

Laughing is medicine for the soul.

When you feel down or weary, play some music.

Son, when you were born, you cried while the world rejoiced. Live your life in such a way that when you die the world cries while you rejoice.

Alright, the secret of happiness is simple: find out what you truly love to do and then direct all of your energy towards doing it.

Most people are always running toward this fantasyland that they think will solve all their problems and fill them up with joy. They tell themselves, 'Once I achieve this or that, I'll be happy.' But I believe that happiness isn't a place you get to—it's an inner state you create. Anyone can be happy—it's available to everyone and is available right now. We just need to stop and pay more attention to the treasures that already surround us.