Positive Emotions: Joy Quotes

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"The joy, late coming, late departs"

Lewis J. Bates

"One of the most beautiful things in the world I've ever seen or heard is people laughing, even when there seems to be so little reason for them to laugh"

D. L. Hughley, Actor

"Laughter is the brush that sweeps away the cobwebs of your heart"

Mort Walker, Artist

"At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities"

Jean Houston, Author

"Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with"

Mark Twain, Author

Mark Twain

Dr. Seuss, Writer

Dr. Seuss

"I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described"

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Philosopher

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

"There is an organic affinity between joyousness and tenderness, and their companionship in the saintly life need in no way occasion surprise"

William James, Philosopher

William James

"It's a good thing to be foolishly gay once in a while"

Horace, Poet

"How good is man's life, the mere living! How fit to employ all the heart and the soul and the senses forever in joy!"

Robert Browning, Poet

Robert Browning

"Instead of asking 'How much damage will the work in question bring about?' why not ask 'How much good? How much joy?'"

Henry Miller, Writer

Henry Miller

"How delicious is pleasure after torment!"

Pierre Corneille, Dramatist

Pierre Corneille

"A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked"

Anais Nin, Author

Anais Nin

"Joy comes not through possession or ownership but through a wise and loving heart"

Buddha, Leader

Buddha

"Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us"

Orison Swett Marden, Writer

Orison Swett Marden

"One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter"

Joseph Addison, Writer

Joseph Addison

"I have drunken deep of joy, And I will taste no other wine tonight"

Percy Bysshe Shelley, Poet

Percy Bysshe Shelley

"But by reading them again and again, finally I was able to grasp the essential part. What emotion, enthusiasm, enlightenment and confidence they communicated to me! I wept for joy"

Ho Chi Minh, Revolutionary

Ho Chi Minh

"Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing"

Ken Kesey, Author

Ken Kesey

"There are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere, and of leaving it behind them when they go"

Jean Paul, Author

Jean Paul

"Real elation is when you feel you could touch a star without standing on tiptoe"

Doug Larson, Cartoonist

Doug Larson

"We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry"

E. B. White, Writer

"Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all - that has been my religion"

John Burroughs, Author

"Laughter is inner jogging"

Norman Cousins, Author

"I think you can get the wrong impression about me from my work and think I'm always a bit down. I'm not that way at all. I'm fun-loving"

Sting, Musician

Sting

"For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair"

Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Writer

"Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one's identity as a being of worth and dignity"

Rollo May, Psychologist

"Comparison is the thief of joy. We're all on our own path, and it's important to focus on our own progress and not worry about what others are doing"

Emma Heming Willis, Actress

Emma Heming Willis

"Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy"

Nhat Hanh, Activist

Nhat Hanh

"What a joy it is to dance and sing!"

Angela Carter, Novelist

Angela Carter

"Gary Ross is amazing"

Liam Hemsworth, Actor

Liam Hemsworth

"There are some people who have the quality of richness and joy in them and they communicate it to everything they touch. It is first of all a physical quality; then it is a quality of the spirit"

Tom Wolfe, Journalist

"Thou hast no sorrow in thy song, no winter in thy year"

John A. Logan, Soldier

"Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops, pierced by sunbeams"

Hosea Ballou, Clergyman

"It is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man"

Francois Rabelais, Clergyman

"Joys divided are increased"

J. G. Holland, Novelist

"It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us; in joy we face the storm and defy it"

Amelia Barr, Novelist

Amelia Barr

"Joy, has no cost"

Marianne Williamson, Author

"Collecting is my joy; it gives me great satisfaction"

Ursula Andress, Actress

Ursula Andress

"The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless"

Dorothy L. Sayers, Author

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