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Quotes About Joy

I don't care. I am happy and the rain cannot change that. The world is wonderful. Throw whatever you like at me, I refuse to bend before it. I am happy.
~ Barry Jonsberg
Life amuses me, Jasper. Until it don't no more." He grinned. "When you're a happy guy, you find amusement in all kinds of places. Even in here.
~ Barry Lyga
Rich people can afford anything, even better laughter.
~ Barry Lyga
She chuckles. "You're apologizing again! All is right with the world.
~ Barry Lyga
Focus on what makes you happy, and do what gives meaning to your life
~ Barry Schwartz
It was a joy to be a part of the team that created Round The Horne. I was involved with the show at a time of my life when I was very happy., and that happiness overflowed into the scripts.
~ Barry Took
The successful cannot be unhappy -- it was a contradiction in terms.
~ Barry Unsworth
There's people making babies to my music. That's nice.
~ Barry White
I don't think of myself as a role model. I do try to live in a compassionate, considerate and positive way. The only advice I can offer is to find what you love to do, find the joy in it, and express yourself through your passion.
~ Barry Williams
In a friends company everything is finer and more delightful, and every evil is smaller and less annoying.
~ Bartholomew of San Concordio
Much too oft we make life gloomy-- When happy we might be, If we gathered more of sunshine, And not dark shadows see.
~ barton ardelia cotton ii
O happy childhood! blessed youth! But once we know thy potent power; But once we live all careless free; No cross to mar our love-lit bower.
~ barton ardelia cotton ii
Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
~ Baruch Spinoza
Nothing forbids man to enjoy himself, save grim and gloomy superstition
~ Baruch Spinoza
Love is nothing but Joy with the accompanying idea of an external cause ( Ethics, part III, proposition 13, scholium).
~ Baruch Spinoza
Joy is a man's passage from a lesser to a greater perfection.
~ Baruch Spinoza
aquele que quer responder às injúrias com o ódio vive na tristeza ou na mágoa, aquele que quer vencer o ódio com o amor combate alegremente e sem temor. Triunfa tanto sobre um grande número de inimigos quanto sobre um único, prescindindo de todo socorro da fortuna. Aqueles a quem ele consegue vencer ficam alegres por terem sido derrotados; e, derrotados, eles não são menos fortes; ao contrário, são mais fortes.
~ Baruch Spinoza
Blessedness is not the reward of virtue, but virtue itself; neither do we rejoice therein, because we control our lusts, but contrariwise, because we rejoice therein, we are able to control our lusts.
~ Baruch Spinoza, The Ethics
Your purpose is to be YOU as fully as you can and the way that's perhaps most easily done is to act on your highest joy.
~ Bashar
It is at once by way of poetry and through poetry, as with music, that the soul glimpses splendors from beyond the tomb; and when an exquisite poem brings one's eyes to the point of tears, those tears are not evidence of an excess of joy, they are witness far more to an exacerbated melancholy, a disposition of the nerves, a nature exiled among imperfect things, which would like to possess, without delay, a paradise revealed on this very same earth.
~ baudelaire charles iv
A series of accidents creates a positively lighthearted state.
~ baudrillard jean iii
Anything that keeps you from singing is foolishness, unless it's laughter.
~ baum l frank ii
Time is given us to be happy and for no other reason.
~ baum l frank iii
A woman who is loved always has success.
~ baum vicki ii