Quotes on Joy And Happiness

When it is understood that one loses joy and happiness in the attempt to possess them, the essence of natural farming will be realized. The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings.

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.

The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.

The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up.

That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great.

Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.

Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside.

The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.

I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

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

Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.

I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!

The only joy in the world is to begin.

To get joy, we must give it and to keep joy, we must scatter it.

Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.

It is not possible to sin enough to be happy. It isn't possible to buy enough to be happy, or to entertain or indulge or pamper ourselves enough to be happy. It is not possible to hide enough or run far enough away from trials and troubles to be happy. Happiness and joy come only when we are living up to who we are... I have never met anyone who was happier because he was immoral, or because he was addicted to something, or because he was dishonest and compromised his integrity.

We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.