Quotes about Joy

Comparison is the death of joy.

what is joy without sorrow? what is success without failure? what is a win without a loss? what is health without illness? you have to experience each if you are to appreciate the other. there is always going to be suffering. it's how you look at your suffering, how you deal with it, that will define you.

We laugh at inferior or ugly individuals, because we feel a joy at feeling superior to them.

It was good to be alive; it was better to be young; it was best of all to be in love.

it is frequently in its least important and lowliest manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived.

Life was never anything but a perpetual see-saw between gravity and jest.

I commend you, however, for passing the time in as merry a manner as you possibly could; it is assuredly better to go laughing than crying thro' the rough journey of life.

I don't think it's that hard [to lead a Christian life]. To me it's fun. We have joy and happiness.

The examined life: nothing is more futile or counterproductive. The active, joyous, spontaneous life: that is what one should aim for.

Being alive is having what I want, that is my joy, my happiness.

So much of what comes out of the faith community seems so dour and somber, and we want to say, 'Hey, we're real people. You can be a person of faith and really enjoy life and laugh.'

Life is to be enjoyed, not endured