Quotes About Joy

Again, as wine when drunk helps to put an end to our sorrow and brings gladness to the heart, so also the spiritual wine brings joy to the soul. - St. John Chrysostom

Laughing is the body's approval of the absurd.

It goes without saying that mastering a skill engenders a sense of satisfaction, but the feeling is ephemeral and dissipates once on the plateau of competency; because this kind of satisfaction is directed toward yourself, whereas the investment of learning about the world is repaid in love—a love of the world, a joy of living, which is permanent and will last till the grave.

That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.

Book love... is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.

Let the sun shine in.

All of us have had the experience of a sudden joy that came when nothing in the world had forewarned us of its coming — a joy so thrilling that if it was born of misery we remembered even the misery with tenderness.

True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.

He who would travel happily must travel light.

It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.

People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.

People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.

La felicidad no es una estación a la que se llega, sino una manera de viajar. MARGARET LEE RUNBECK

The advice to simplify our lives brings to mind William Morris' dictum that we should have nothing in our houses that we don't know to be useful or believe to be beautiful. More recently, Marie Kondo has suggested that unless an object 'sparks joy' in our heart, we should get rid of it.

Knowledge of precepts and understanding appropriate action can help us to live ethically. But even more important is cultivating what could be called 'calm emotions'. For the Stoics, these were joy, wishing and caution. These are supposed to be a rational alternative to ordinary kinds of emotions: joy replaces pleasure, wishing replaces desire and caution replaces fear.

Counterintuitive though it may sound, joy can also arise from properly understanding impermanence. The Buddha says: 'When, by knowing the impermanence, change, fading away, and cessation of forms, one sees … with proper wisdom that forms … are all impermanent, suffering, and subject to change, joy arises.

Abel was brushing the snow off his parka while Micha was dancing around him, still balancing the plate of cookies, singing, 'We're staying, we're staying, we're staying overnight! We're drying! We're drying! We're drying on the line!

Un helado es un almuerzo maravilloso cuando se está de celebración.

Even to know that delight, in a perfect world, would be the proper response to life is a simplicity beyond most of us.

Anyone who worked with him will recall the moment when his face softened into a knowing smile. It was the moment he thought he had the answer. That smile was the same smile he wore when he wrote an opinion that wrote itself. He loved the truth, and his smile betrayed the peace and joy he found in its pursuit.

Alegremente" es la palabra de la casa. Estáis envenenados de alegría. Y no era eso lo que pensaba yo encontrar aquí. Creí que encontraría... a mis verdaderos compañeros, no a unos ilusos».

Y el juego es juego, aunque parezca un pleonasmo. Pertenece a esa esfera de cosas desinteresadas: como el arte, es una contemplación desinteresada de lo real. Se juega por la misma razón por la que uno ríe, o ama.

Dicen los orientales que los ruidos más gratos de esta vida son el tintineo de las monedas de oro, el canto de un surtidor y la voz de quien se aman...

Estos días azules y este sol de infancia