108 quotes about Joy

Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

What is joy?
The wish to live.
The joy of life.
Who care for awards!

I will be happy if at least one or two of my songs stay alive. Then I will live as a composer.

To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.

Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

“Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.”

Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak.

Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.

When a person realizes he has been deeply heard, his eyes moisten. I think in some real sense he is weeping for joy. It is as though he were saying, "Thank God, somebody heard me. Someone knows what it's like to be me.

All truly great art is optimistic. The individual artist is happy in his creative work. The fact that practically all great art is tragic does not in any way change the above thesis.

I dreamed
that shoulder to shoulder with my companions
I was returning to the village after a full day of work,
in the evening light, happy, in such a dream.

People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to forget their misery, to imagine themselves, for a few minutes anyway, free and happy.