108 quotes about Joy

Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

Work is a joy, laziness is a scourge.

I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. Nothing else.

You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.

Money may not buy happiness, but it can damn well give it!

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.

Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.

Nothing makes me so happy as to observe nature and to paint what I see.

The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.

Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.

Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold.

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.