Quotes about Joy

I can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasure. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.

Happiness is like coke — something you get as a by-product in the process of making something else.

You've got to choose between happiness and what people used to call high art.

That is the secret of happiness and virtue - liking what you've got to do.

Ah, that's because you don't know what it's like to have faith. You've no idea how amusing and exciting life becomes when you do believe. All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant. It makes life so jolly, you know.

Joy does not come to you if you are spiritually passive; rather, joy is cultivated, but joy is cultivated by things you do.

Find joy in God and you will find joy in doing the work of God.

You will know your vocation by the joy that it brings you. You will know. You will know when it's right.

True love is delicate and kind, full of gentle perception and understanding, full of beauty and grace, full of joy unutterable. There should be some flavor of this in all our love for others. We are all one. We are one flesh in the Mystical Body as man and woman are said to be one flesh in marriage. With such a love one would see all things new; we would begin to see people as they really are, as God sees them.

When it comes down to it, even on the natural plane, it is much happier and more enlivening to love than to be loved.

If I had written the greatest book, composed the greatest symphony, painted the most beautiful painting or carved the most exquisite figure I could not have felt the more exalted creator than I did when they placed my child in my arms.

A philosophy of work is essential if we would be whole men, holy men, healthy men, joyous men. A certain amount of goods is necessary for a man to lead a good life, and we have to make that kind of society where it is easier for men to be good.