101Kidz : Quotations : Joy & Happiness
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If you want others to be happy,
practice compassion.
If you want to be happy,
practice compassion.
- The Dalai Lama


And Joy is Everywhere;
It is in the Earth's green covering of grass;
In the blue serenity of the Sky;
In the reckless exuberance of Spring;
In the severe abstinence of gray Winter;
In the Living flesh that animates our bodily frame;
In the perfect poise of the Human figure, noble and upright;
In Living;
In the exercise of all our powers;
In the acquisition of Knowledge;
in fighting evils...
Joy is there Everywhere.
- Rabindranath Tagore


If we are not happy and joyous at this season,
for what other season shall we wait and
for what other time shall we look?
- Abdul-Baha


We find greatest joy, not in getting, but in expressing what we are... Men do not really live for honors or for pay; their gladness is not the taking and holding, but in doing, the striving, the building, the living. It is a higher joy to teach than to be taught. It is good to get justice, but better to do it; fun to have things but more to make them. The happy man is he who lives the life of love, not for the honors it may bring, but for the life itself.
- R.J. Baughan


We shall find peace. We shall hear angels.
We shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
- Anton Pavlovich Chekhov


Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
- Marcel Proust


If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come.
- Chinese Proverb


The pleasantest things in the world are pleasant thoughts: and the great art of life is to have as many of them as possible.
- Montaigne


The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof.
- Richard Bach


Time spent laughing is time spent with the gods.
- Japanese Proverb


When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.
- Cherokee Expression


Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
- Thich Nhat Hanh


Happiness is to take up the struggle in the midst of the raging storm
and not to pluck the lute in the moonlight or recite poetry among the
blossoms.
- Ding Ling

The only joy in the world is to begin.
- Cesare Pavese


Do not judge men by mere appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy.
- E. H. Chapin


Give not over thy soul to sorrow; and afflict not thyself in thy own counsel. Gladness of heart is the life of man and the joyfulness of man is length of days.
- Ecclesiastes



Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.
- Euripides



This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.
- George Bernard Shaw


We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.
- Helen Keller


I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!
- Louise Bogan


Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
- Mark Twain


May your walls know joy; May every room hold laughter and every window open to great possibility.
- Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey


The most profound joy has more of gravity than of gaiety in it.
- Michel de Montaigne


Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
- Mother Teresa


The joy of a spirit is the measure of its power.
- Ninon de Lenclos


There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.
- Pearl Buck


Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing.
- Phil Jackson


Joy is not in things; it is in us.
- Richard Wagner


Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.
- Sarah Ban Breathnach


My mind to me a kingdom is,
Such present joys therein I find,
That it excels all other bliss.
- Sir Edward Dyer


Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile.
- Sir Wilfred Grenfell


There is no greater joy nor greater reward than to make a fundamental difference in someone's life.
- Sister Mary Rose McGeady


When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.
- Stanislaw J. Lec


Cease, every joy, to glimmer on my mind,
But leave---oh! leave the light of Hope behind.
- Thomas Campbell


Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.
- William Shakespeare


Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
- Storm Jameson

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