The inexorable compulsion of all things is towards health or destruction, life or death, and we hasten our joys or our woes to the logical extreme. It is urgent, therefore, that we be joyous if we wish to live.

I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river.

There is a joy in sorrow which none but a mourner can know.

Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how.

Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.

Happiness, to some, elation; Is, to others, mere stagnation.

I discovered that joy is not the negation of pain, but rather acknowledging the presence of pain and feeling happiness in spite of it.

Colors are the smiles of nature.

Perfect happiness is a beautiful sunset, the giggle of a grandchild, the first snowfall. It's the little things that make happy moments, not the grand events. Joy comes in sips, not gulps.

True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

The secret to life is finding joy in ordinary things. I'm interested in happiness.

True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.

Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.

Joy doesn't betray but sustains activism. And when you face a politics that aspires to make you fearful, alienated and isolated, joy is a fine initial act of insurrection.

Joy can only be real if people look upon their life as a service and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.

The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.

A lot of people seem to feel that joy is only the most intense version of pleasure, arrived at by the same road - you simply have to go a little further down the track. That has not been my experience.

Let us instance one respect in which American life has recently undergone a great change. We allude to its increased devotion to pleasure, to happiness, to dancing, to sport... to the delights of the country, to laughter, and to all forms of cheerfulness.

We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.

Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.

Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past.

The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy 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.

To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.

Words are less needful to sorrow than to joy.

Taking joy in living is a woman's best cosmetic.

The smile of God is victory.

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. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

The joys of friendship inert the heart and fizzy home bouncing jubilantly with laughter-buttered love.

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

Joy is prayer; joy is strength: joy is love; joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.

The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just recently fallen in love is undisguisable.

To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.

Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.

Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.

Christmas is joy, religious joy, an inner joy of light and peace.

Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude.

The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted.

The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.

Happiness is the natural flower of duty.

Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one's identity as a being of worth and dignity.

There may be Peace without Joy, and Joy without Peace, but the two combined make Happiness.

There's no happier person than a truly thankful, content person.

Bliss is the ocean, a towel on the sand, the sun out, the chance to swim in waves or walk dragging a stick behind you, a good book, a cold drink.

Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

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

All true happiness, pure joy, sweet bounties, and untroubled pleasure lie in knowledge of God and love of God; they cannot exist without them.

The answer, of course, in the mouth of a Christian teacher is that in Christianity alone is there both present joy and future hope.

Genuine happiness comes from within, and often it comes in spontaneous feelings of joy.

Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; but knowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, unlimited in space and indefinite in duration.

Beauty is whatever gives joy.

There is no such thing as the pursuit of happiness, but there is the discovery of joy.

Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.

Peace begins with a smile.

It is the chief joy of all holy beings to witness the joy and happiness of those around them.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

Youth smiles without any reason. It is one of its chiefest charms.

All true happiness, pure joy, sweet bounties, and unclouded pleasure are contained within the knowledge and love of God.

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

There is only one real happiness in life, and that is the happiness of creating.

The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.

The joy of the mind is the measure of its strength.