A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live. -- Bertrand Russell

"You have to sniff out joy. Keep your nose to the joy trail." - Buffy Sainte-Marie

 

"This is the true joy in life...being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one... 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

 

I would say that the surest measure of a man's or a woman's maturity is the harmony, style, joy, and dignity he creates in his marriage, and the pleasure and inspiration he provides for his spouse. -- Dr. Benjamin Spock

 

Spiritually, life is a festival, a celebration. Joy is of the essence of life; -- Swami Agnivesh

 

Joy can be real only if people look on their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness -- Leo Tolstoy “Life is a place of service, and in that service one has to suffer a great deal that is hard to bear, but more often to experience a great deal of joy. But that joy can be real only if people look upon their lives as a service and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.” -- Leo Tolstoy

 

"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

"From joy springs all creation, By joy it is sustained, Towards joy it proceed, And unto joy it returns."
-The Upanishads

"Where there is joy there is creation. Where there is no joy there is no creation: know the nature of joy."
The Upanishads

"Release the joy that is inside of another, and you release the joy that is inside of you." ~ Neale Donald Walsch

 

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