Quotes about Joy

If you concentrate always on the present, you'll be a happy man. You'll see that there is life in the desert, that there are stars in the heavens...Life will be a party for you, a grand festival, because life is the moment we're living right now.

I wept because I was re-experiencing the enthusiasm of my childhood; I was once again a child, and nothing in the world could cause me harm.

JOY goes against the foundations of mathematics: it multiplies when we divide.

You're mistaken, Father. You were in paradise, but you didn't recognize it. It's the same with most people in this world; they seek suffering in the most joyous of places because they think they are unworthy of happiness.

When you love each other, you have to be ready for anything. Because love is like a kaleidoscope, the kind we used to play with when we were kids. It's in constant movement and never repeats itself. If you don't understand this, you are condemned to suffer for something that really only exists to make us happy.

So you must learn to follow your destiny, whatever it may be, with joy. As flowers grow, they show off their beauty and are appreciated by all; then, after they die, they leave their seeds so that others may continue God's work.

Only a man who is happy can create happiness in others.

Over-anxiety ultimately banishes every trace of joy from life.

The worst killing is that which kills the joy we get from life.

Defeat is for the valiant. Only they will know the honor of losing and the joy of winning.

Do what your heart commands, and God will be happy.

You can't want to be happy, because that's too easy and too boring.