Joy Quotes

"Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions."

"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."

"The most important thing is to enjoy your life — to be happy — it is all that matters."

"Happiness is not a destination, it is a way of life."

"The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts."

"For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness."

"Happiness often sneaks in through a door you did not know you left open."

"The only joy in the world is to begin."

"Happiness depends upon ourselves."

"Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day."

"Happiness is a warm puppy."

"The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does."

"Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence."

"Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things."

"I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder."

"Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get."

"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success."

"The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life."

"Family and friendships are two of the greatest facilitators of happiness."

"The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness."

"Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair."

"The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it."

"In today's rush, we all think too much, seek too much, want too much, and forget about the joy of just being."

"Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit."

"You are the one that possesses the keys to your being. You carry the passport to your own happiness."

"Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions."

"Today I choose joy. Today I choose peace. Today I choose me."

"This morning, I am choosing happiness over worry, positivity over negativity, and gratitude over complaint."

"Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product of a life well lived."

"What I've enjoyed most, though, is meeting people who have a real interest in food and sharing ideas with them. Good food is a global thing and I find that there is always something new and amazing to learn - I love it!"

"I've had an amazing professional life, personal life, but at 64 to have a son who gives us that much love and enjoyment is, wow!"

"Art is man's expression of his joy in labor."

"My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art."

"It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge."

"Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us."

"A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases it will never pass into nothingness."

"Beauty is the promise of happiness."

"Imagination disposes of everything it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world."

"Beauty is whatever gives joy."

"There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness."

"Taking joy in living is a woman's best cosmetic."

"There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better."

"We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body."

"Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind."

"Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You can't put on make-up, or dress yourself, or do you hair with any sort of fun or joy if you're doing it from a position of correction."

"Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light."

"Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying."

"To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive."

"If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either."

"They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom."