Quotes About Joy

Joy, thou spark from Heav'n immortal,Daughter of Elysium!Drunk with fire, toward Heaven advancingGoddess, to thy shrine we come.Thy sweet magic brings togetherWhat stern Custom spreads afar;All men become brothersWhere thy happy wing-beats are.

Pain is short, and joy is eternal.

I got my dad a great father's Day present. He called to say: 'Ach. Zis present is so good I now think it vas almost vorth having children.

An antidepressant, they have learned, isn't just a pill. It's anything that lifts your despair.

Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child.

Paradise is always where love dwells.

Tobe, Welt, und springe; ich steh' hier und singe in gar sichrer Ruh'.

Theirs is beauty's fairest pleasure; Theirs is wisdom's holiest treasure. Thou dost ever lead Thine own In the love of joys unknown.

Jesus bleibet meine Freude, Meines Herzens Trost und Saft, Jesus wehret allem Leide, Er ist meines Lebens Kraft, Meiner Augen Lust und Sonne, Meiner Seele Schatz und Wonne; Darum laß ich Jesum nicht Aus dem Herzen und Gesicht.

Through the way where hope is guiding, Hark, what peaceful music rings; Where the flock, in Thee confiding, Drink of joy from deathless springs. Theirs is beauty's fairest pleasure; Theirs is wisdom's holiest treasure. Thou dost ever lead Thine own In the love of joys unknown.

Guai a coloro, dissi, che si servono dell'influenza che hanno su di un cuore per rapirgli le semplici gioie che esso sa procurare a se stesso!

Must it so be that whatever makes man happy must later become the source of his misery?

When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.

Since time is not a person we can overtake when he is past, let us honor him with mirth and cheerfulness of heart while he is passing.

I sing as the bird singsThat lives in the boughs.

Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.

Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though it were his own.

Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

Whatever is the lot of humankind I want to taste within my deepest self. I want to seize the highest and the lowest, to load its woe and bliss upon my breast, and thus expand my single self titanically and in the end go down with all the rest.

I laugh at my heart, and do its will.

Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though 'twere his own.

My days are as happy as those reserved by God for his elect; and whatever be my fate hereafter, I can never say that I have not tasted joy— the purest joy of life.

Colors are light's suffering and joy

A human being needs only a small plot of ground on which to be happy, and even less to lie beneath.