Quotes about Joy
Comparison is the thief of joy.
- Theodore Roosevelt
True happiness comes only by making others happy.
- David O. McKay
Being joyful is our natural state of being.
- Deepak Chopra
Happiness is something that comes from our own hearts, not from other people.
- Lynn Austin
There is within every soul a thirst for happiness and meaning.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
Make up your mind to be happy. Learn to find pleasure in simple things.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
The most satisfying project you will ever undertake-and a mark of a complete human being-is to discover how to build a sense of happiness that no one can take away from you.
- Deepak Chopra
There is no shame in preferring happiness.
- Albert Camus
The door to happiness opens outward.
- Soren Kierkegaard
A happiness that is sought for ourselves alone can never be found: for a happiness that is diminished by being shared is not big enough to make us happy.
- Thomas Merton
All human beings pass away. Do not let your happiness depend on something you may lose. If love is to be a blessing, not a misery, it must be for the only beloved who will never pass away.
- CS Lewis
Happiness isn't something that depends on our surroundings... It's something we make inside ourselves.
- Corrie Ten Boom