108 quotes about Joy

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.

False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.

We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire from the world like a satisfied guest.

Happiness consists in realizing it is all a great strange dream.

I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.

To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.

I wish I could throw off the thoughts which poison my happiness, but I take a kind of pleasure in indulging them.

Time to leave now, get out of this room, go somewhere, anywhere; sharpen this feeling of happiness and freedom, stretch your limbs, fill your eyes, be awake, wider awake, vividly awake in every sense and every pore.

Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison.

Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.

There is no greater sorrow
Than to recall a happy time
When miserable.