108 quotes about Joy

Discover quotes about Joy from writers, philosophers, artists and other notable figures. Words and reflections that illuminate different sides of this human feeling.

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No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.
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Wollstonecraft
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Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.
Frankl Viktor
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When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.
Rumi Jalaluddin
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All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
Tolstoy Leo
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A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.
Kierkegaard
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Color is my daylong obsession, joy, and torment.
Monet
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Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory
Schweitzer
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The will of man is his happiness.
Schiller
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As we observe children, we see the vitality of their spirit, the maximum effort put forth in all they do, the intuition, attention and focus they bring to all life’s events, and the sheer joy they experience in living.
Montessori
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The essence of philosophy is that a man should live so that his happiness will depend as little as possible on external things.
Epicurus
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Very little is needed to make a happy life.
Aurelius Marcus
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I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
Poe, Edgar A.

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