108 quotes about Joy

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

Through fasting. . .I have found a perfect health, a new state of existence, a feeling of purity and happiness, something unknown to humans.

The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.

A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.

Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness lives in the soul.

There is no path to happiness: happiness is the path.

I discovered to my joy, that it is life, not death, that has no limits.

“Our desires interweave with one another; and in the confusion of existence, it is seldom that a joy is promptly paired with the desire that longed for it.”

It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.

Often we pass beside happiness without seeing it, without looking at it, or even if we have seen and looked at it, without recognizing it.

There is nothing which can better deserve your patronage, than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.