Quotes About Joy

To overcome difficulties is to experience the full delight of existence.

Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.

A sense of humour is the only divine quality of man

Ninety-eight per cent of laughter is nothing to do with jokes, which do not deserve to bear the weight of all the funny stuff in the world.

This is always the effect of sin; it destroys our peace, robs our joy and brings in its train a consciousness of guilt and a sense of shame.

Paradise Lost is sometimes Heaven found.

And then it struck her that life was sometimes so beautiful that it didn't seem like life at all.

Dejad leer y dejad danzar, pedía Voltaire.

Goûtons un peu ce simulacre de bonheur

Mientras hay vino en la mesa, hay esperanza en el corazón

Ya lo decían los griegos. Un pueblo libre y alegre será naturalmente laborioso. —Exacto. Y a los buenos gobernantes corresponde no imponer, sino garantizar esa clase de felicidad. —En

Es agradable ser feliz, pensó. Y saberlo mientras lo eres.

L]ife is like an expensive restaurant where, sooner or later, someone always hands you the bill, which is not to say that you should deny the joy and pleasure afforded by the dishes already eaten.

To derive joy from simple things; to derive joy from beautiful, giving persons; to give back, indeed to give away; to be thankful, as we are so often told we must be, for small mercies.

To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never to forget.

If I am happy at the joy of those who take delight, Then everyone should be a source of joy to me. When people take delight in others Why am I not happy at their pleasure? 97. The satisfaction that is mine From thinking, "I am being praised," Is unacceptable to common sense And nothing but the antics of a silly child. 98. Praise and compliments distract me, Sapping my revulsion with sa?s?ra. I start to envy others their good qualities And thus all excellence is ruined.

I say that it's the joy that others take in me, It's this that is the cause of my delight.

So, like a treasure found at home, That I have gained without fatigue, My enemies are helpers in my Bodhisattva work And therefore they should be a joy to me. 108. Since I have grown in patience Thanks to them, To them its first fruits I should give, For of my patience they have been the cause.

A flower gives joy only for a day. Witnessing it bloom into one is magic.

Maybe I was just lucky, but I had the best pregnancy, and I loved giving birth. It was just the most amazing thing, so surreal but so real.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BABY JESUS

The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.

Staying true to what makes you happy, because that always ends up producing the best result.