108 quotes about Joy

Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict; those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war.

My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind - intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.

Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.

The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.

We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.

“Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance”

If freedom is a requisite for human happiness, then all that’s necessary is to provide the illusion of freedom.

Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures.

Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live.

To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.

Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.