Quotes on Joy

The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.

I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled. I could not control the world I was in, could not walk away from things or people or moments that hurt, but I took joy in the things that made me happy.

Take life too seriously, and what is it worth? If the morning wake us to no new joys, if the evening bring us not the hope of new pleasure, is it worthwhile to dress and undress?

Everything exists in limited quantity - especially happiness.

Here we are the way politics ought to be in America; the politics of happiness, the politics of purpose and the politics of joy.

Happiness lies in making others happy, in forsaking self-interest to bring joy to others.

Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.

One can never speak enough of the virtues, the dangers, the power of shared laughter.

If you have no tragedy, you have no comedy. Crying and laughing are the same emotion. If you laugh too hard, you cry. And vice versa.

With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.

A good laugh is a mighty good thing, and rather too scarce a good thing.

Prepare for mirth, for mirth becomes a feast.

Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks.

The size of a man's understanding might always be justly measured by his mirth.

We do have a zeal for laughter in most situations, give or take a dentist.

Mirth is God's medicine. Everybody ought to bathe in it.

What if in my waking hours a sound should ring through the silent halls of hearing? ... Would the bow and string tension of life snap? Would the heart over weighted with sudden joy stop beating for very excess of happiness?

A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.

When two people are really happy about one another one can generally assume they are mistaken.

You traverse the world in search of happiness which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.