Joy & Happiness Quotes

Get stuck in the feelings that exhilarate you.

What is to give light must endure the burning. - Eleanor Roosevelt

Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't. - Eleanor Roosevelt

Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough. - Emily Dickinson

Know that joy is rarer, more difficult, and more beautiful than sadness. Once you make this all-important discovery, you must embrace joy as a moral obligation. - Andre Gide

Joy: show joy & enjoy; then others will be joyful. - Sylvia Plath

I tell you, deep inside you is a fountain of bliss, a fountain of joy. Deep inside your center core is truth, light, love; there is no guilt there, there is no fear there. Psychologists have never looked deep enough. - Sri Sri Ravi Shanka

The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs. - Emerson

A smile is nearly always inspired by another smile.

Sometimes we laugh for lack of options.

Happiness is coming to terms with not knowing.

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart. - Helen Keller

You're letting the sadness of the swamps get to you. You have to try, you have to care...for me... - Atreyu, to Artax, in The Neverending Story

With practice, you could probably tolerate more joy.

Don't forget to appreciate everything.

For some folks, depression runs in the family. They have blue genes.

You have to sniff out joy. Keep your nose to the joy trail. - Buffy St. Marie

He who kisses the joy as it flies, Lives in Eternity's sunrise. - William Blake

Joy seems to me a step beyond happiness is a sort of atmosphere you can live in sometimes when you're lucky. Joy is a light that fills you with hope and faith and love... - Adela Rogers St. Johns

When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. - Kahlil Gibran

We should all do what in the long run gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry. - E.B. White

The trick is not how much pain you feel, but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain. Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses. - Erica Jong

Let me never be afraid of endings or beginnings. Teach me to embrace all of life with joy. - Helen Lesman

Warm weather fosters growth; cold weather destroys it. Thus a man with an unsympathetic temperament has a scant joy; but a man with a warm and friendly heart overflowing blessings, and his beneficence will extend to posterity. - Hung Tzu-Cheng

Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow. - Rene Descartes

Joy is the sweet voice, joy the luminous cloud - We in ourselves rejoice! And thence flow all the charms or ear or sight, All melodies the echoes of that voice, All colors a suffusion from the light. - Samuel Coleridge

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