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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As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.
Leonardo da Vinci
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Through fasting. . .I have found a perfect health, a new state of existence, a feeling of purity and happiness, something unknown to humans.
Sinclair Upton
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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.
Hemingway
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A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
France Anatole
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Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness lives in the soul.
Democritus
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There is no path to happiness: happiness is the path.
Buddha
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I discovered to my joy, that it is life, not death, that has no limits.
Marquez Gabriel
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“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.”
Proust Marcel
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It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.
Franklin Benjamin
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Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
Kant Immanuel
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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.
Dumas Alexandre
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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.
Washington

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