Joy Happiness Quotes
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
Happiness always has an object... Depends on external things. Joy... Has no object. It seizes you for no apparent reason, it's like the sun, its burning is fueled by its own heart.
If you would find happiness and joy, lose your life in some noble cause. A worthy purpose must be at the center of every worthy life.
The most beautiful moments in life are moments when you are expressing your joy, not when you are seeking it.
The thought of a happiness that comes from outside the person, brings him sadness. But the recognition in the value of one's will and the freedom granted by its uplifting, brings great joy.
Happiness lies in making others happy, in forsaking self-interest to bring joy to others.
There is no happiness finally, there is no peace, there is no joy except we be right with God. The miserable Christian is wrong in his ideas as to how this rightness with God is to be obtained.
Body tension will always be present if our good feeing is just ordinary, self-centered happiness. Joy has no tension in it, because joy accepts whatever is as it is.
Happiness is never a negative affair; it is to be won by men who are fully alive, full of the joy of living
The happiness and the joy that I see in the eyes of the children. They saved my life so I want to, give it back. I'm not joking.
Joy is a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace - a connection to what matters.
A vital part of the happiness formula is self-discipline. Whoever conquers himself knows deep happiness that fills the heart with joy.
What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.
Happiness is the moment when you cease to make an inventory of joys; it is a glow, a brightness - never a list.
If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.
To fill the hour; that is happiness to fill the hour, and leave no crevice for a repentance or an approval.
If you are a taker of happiness you get misery, if you are a giver of happiness you get joy and love.
The glow of satisfaction which follows the consciousness of doing our level best never comes to a human being from any other experience.
I am the lover's gift; I am the wedding wreath; I am the memory of a moment of happiness; I am the last gift of the living to the dead; I am a part of joy and a part of sorrow.
Happiness and joy are inner qualities that can't be shaken by outer circumstances because they are inherent within the core Self.
Happiness isn't a one-size-fits-all proposition. You must define what it looks like for you and then make a conscious effort to access whatever gets you to your unique definition of joy.
When we smile, the world smiles with us: each experience of joy is an experience of joy for all people and a victory for human kind.
We call "happiness" a certain set of circumstances that makes joy possible. But we call joy that state of mind and emotions that needs nothing to feel happy.
Be a role model of happiness and joy, which will pull everyone - including yourself - upward.
Our purest form of joy comes when people we envy get hurt. That most genuine form of joy.
Joy explodes throughout the book of Psalms like fireworks, and is the most potent anti-missile defense system there is.
So few the grains of happiness measured against all the dark and still the scales balance.
Find happiness in tribulation, too. Find it in joy alone and you could lose it, sooner or later, and be left with nothing.
I think happiness is overrated, but joy is the key to the thousands of possible moods we can feel. And when we can rest in that joy, then peace is the moment of openness that holds all feeling.
What had she have to wish for? Nothing but to grow more worthy of him whose intentions and judgment had been ever so superior to her own.
The positive vibrations of unregulated joy, peace, happiness and tranquility is freedom.
Julia was as happy as Betsy was, almost. One nice thing about Julia was that she rejoiced in other people's luck.
The subsistence mentality of a person is a prison in which his personal joy is detained. If you want to live in joy, you don't live for yourself alone. Live for others too!
