Quotes on Joy

The fiction of happiness is propagated by every tongue and confirmed by every look till at last all profess the joy which they do not feel and consent to yield to the general delusion.

It is a new road to happiness, if you have strength enough to castigate a little the various impulses that sway you in turn.

We learn in our guts, not just in our brain, that a life of joy is not in seeking happiness, but in experiencing and simply being the circumstances of our life as they are; not in fulfilling personal wants, but in fulfilling the needs of life.

The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness.

I try to bring the audience's own drama - tears and laughter they know about - to them.

Genuine happiness consists in those spiritual qualities of love, compassion, patience, tolerance and forgiveness and so on. For it is these which provide both for our happiness and others happiness.

He who has not looked on Sorrow will never see Joy.

When we are such as He can love without impediment, we shall in fact be happy.

No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the gods; desired by those who have no part in him, and precious to those who have the better part in him.

Joy is more divine than sorrow, for joy is bread and sorrow is medicine.

Once you have heard a strange audience burst into laughter at a film you directed, you realize what the word joy is all about.

From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.

Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.

No one is so completely disenchanted with the world, or knows it so thoroughly, or is so utterly disgusted with it, that when it begins to smile upon him he does not become partially reconciled to it.

Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.

If I can bring joy into the world, then I'll be successful.

Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails.

I always knew looking back on my tears would bring me laughter, but I never knew looking back on my laughter would make me cry.

Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.

All you need in the world is love and laughter. That's all anybody needs. To have love in one hand and laughter in the other.