Quotes about Joy
I understood how a man who has nothing left in this world still may know bliss, be it only for a brief moment, in the contemplation of his beloved.
— Viktor E. Frankl
Happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one's dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one's surrender to a person other than oneself.
— Viktor E. Frankl
If it were now to die, 'twere now to be most happy.
— Virginia Woolf
I was thinking today of my greatest happiness, a walk along a cliff by the sea, and you at the end of it.
— Virginia Woolf
Though the wind is rough and blowing in their faces, those girls there, striding hand in hand, shouting out a song, seem to feel neither cold nor shame. They are hatless. They triumph.
— Virginia Woolf
I will write, she had said, what I enjoy writing.
— Virginia Woolf
Stepping through fields of flowers and taking to her breast buds that had broken and lambs that had fallen; with the stars in her eyes and the wind in her hair— He took her bag.
— Virginia Woolf
Youth so apt for pleasure that pleasure, one thought, must exist
— Virginia Woolf
Far away a bell tolls, but not for death. There are bells that ring for life. A leaf falls, from joy. Oh, I am in love with life!
— Virginia Woolf
What she liked was simply life. 'That's what I do it for', she said, speaking aloud, to life.
— Virginia Woolf
Stepping through fields of flowers and taking to her brest buds that had broken and lambs that had fallen; with the stars in her eyes and wind in her hair— he took her bag.
— Virginia Woolf
Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.
— Lao Tzu