Quotes About Joy

I intend to dance once with everybody - except the other Joy. I'm going to dance twice with the other Joy. Why? Because being unusually kind to someone will give me a feeling of power.

I tried to scream like you once screamed God since I wanted to make the whole world faint but Harry Astley clapped his hand over my mouth O the sheer joy of feeling my teeth sink in.

The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with joy are goodness, beauty, and truth.

the only escape from the miseries of life are music and cats...

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as hard duty. Never regard study as duty but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs.

A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life. All that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.

Rejoice with your family in the beautiful land of life.

Life without playing music is inconceivable for me. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music, I get most joy in life out of music.

everyday is an oportunity to make a new happy ending.........

If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music ... I cannot tell if I would have done any creative work of importance in music, but I do know that I get most joy in life out of my violin.

To stimulate creativity, one must develop the childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition

A serious-minded man enjoys a good laugh now and then.

Learn to be happy through the good fortunes and joys of your friends and not through senseless quarrels. If you allow these natural feelings to blossom within you, your every burden will seem lighter or more bearable to you, you will find your own way through patience, and you will spread joy everywhere.

The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth. To make a goal of comfort or happiness has never appealed to me; a system of ethics built on this basis would be sufficient only for a herd of cattle.

The second thing that strikes a visitor is the joyous, positive attitude to life. The smile on the faces of the people in photographs is symbolical of one of the greatest assets of the American. He is friendly, self-confident, optimistic—and without envy. The European finds intercourse with Americans easy and agreeable.

Let us drink together, fellows, as we did in days of yore. And still enjoy the golden hours that Fortune has in store; The absent friends remembered be, in all that's sung or said, And Love immortal consecrate the memory of the dead.

If the library in the morning suggests an echo of the severe and reasonable wishful order of the world, the library at night seems to rejoice in the world's essential, joyful muddle.

Universal happiness keeps the wheels steadily turning, truth and beauty can't.

Everybody strains after happiness, and the result is that nobody's happy.

Happiness is like coke — something you get as a by-product in the process of making something else.

You've got to choose between happiness and what people used to call high art.