4,580 Quotes About Joy

I am still a naive to happiness.

... pleasure is a lightning-bolt that leaves no trace…

Sometimes you have to let go of the picture of what you thought life would be like and learn to find joy in the story you are actually living.

Ok. It's possible that birds may sing just for the joy of it.

Sometimes success is the source of your happiness, but sometimes happiness can be the source of your success.

To know joy one must go much deeper. Joy is not mere sensation. It requires extraordinary refinement of the mind, but not the refinement of the self that gathers more and more to itself. Such a self, such a man, can never understand this state of joy in which the enjoyer is not.

Love is a flame without smoke, ever fresh, creative, joyous. Such love is dangerous to society, to relationship. So, thought steps in, modifies, guides it, legalizes it, puts it out of danger; then one can live with it.

... I laughed simply because being this particular person in this particular world at this particular moment was cause for joy...

The real journey is how we travel, not where.