Quotes about Joy

Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.

When you get up in the morning, you have two choices - either to be happy or to be unhappy. Just choose to be happy.

I truly believe that if we keep telling the Christmas story, singing the Christmas songs, and living the Christmas spirit, we can bring joy and happiness and peace to this world.

Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate.

Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.

I often crossed it inadvertently when out that way on my daily rounds. But I also liked to cross it on purpose, deliberately stepping to and fro. A dozen times, or several dozen times. I'd amuse myself like that for half an hour—playing the game of crossing the border. It gave me pleasure, because I could remember the time when it wasn't possible. I love crossing borders.

Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.

It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.

The only weights I lift are my dogs.

What I know is, is that if you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.

Somehow we human beings are never happier than when we are expressing the deepest gifts that are truly us.

There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.