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Quotes About Joy

Had they known at these moments to be quietly joyful? Most likely not. People mostly did not know enough when they were living life that they were living it.
~ Elizabeth Strout
How wonderful life is while you're in the world
~ Elton John
Mirth is the sweet wine of human life. It should be offered sparkling with zestful life unto God.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
I like this life. I like it when it's hard, and I like it better when it's not, but I know you don't get the sweet part without the bitter.
~ Holly Near
Life is a beautiful struggle, but life is worth living
~ Jaeson Ma
Life is a joyous thing essentially, but when you bind life by all these rigid moralities and traditions, and dogmas and creeds, then there is misery.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
You've got to live life to the fullest. You just enjoy every beautiful thing there is to enjoy.
~ Leah Chase
Suddenly I heard the words of Christ and understood them, and life and death ceased to seem to me evil, and instead of despair I experienced happiness and the joy of life undisturbed by death.
~ Leo Tolstoy
To me, everything is wonderful. Life is wonderful.
~ Magic Johnson
There is nothing in life to take seriously except the joy of life.
~ Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Oh Death where is thy sting! It has none. But life has.
~ Mark Twain
Life is too serious to be taken seriously.
~ Mike Leonard
The business of life is to enjoy oneself; everything else is a mockery.
~ Norman Douglas
Life is too wonderful, too full, too short and strength too limited to contain its wonder.
~ Ruth Draper
Having children is life-changing, to state the obvious. It's a gigantic shift in your life and I welcomed it.
~ Thandie Newton
Life is really fun, if only we gave it a chance.
~ Tim Hansel
I just live life on my own terms. And I smile a lot.
~ Tyler Florence
In the time of your life, live-so that in that good time there shall be no ugliness or death for yourself or for any life your life touches.
~ William Saroyan
Most friendship is faining, most loving mere folly: Then, heigh-ho, the holly. This life is most jolly.
~ William Shakespeare
A Dionysian life task needs the hardness of the hammer and one of its first essentials is without doubt the joy to be found even in destruction.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Life is so good, and it gets better every day.
~ George Dawson
The worst of misery Is when a nature framed for noblest things Condemns itself in youth to petty joys, And, sore athirst for air, breathes scanty life Gasping from out the shallows.
~ George Eliot
In real life, people don't try to live dramatically, people try to live in a light way. People try to laugh.
~ Ginnifer Goodwin
It is the simplest things in life that hold the most wonder; the color of the sea, the sand between your toes, the laughter of a child.
~ Goldie