Happiness Quote by Amy Waldman

Joy is a deeply felt contentment that transcends difficult circumstances and derives maximum enjoyment from every good experience.

— Anonymous

Joy, once lost, is pain

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

The poet's expression of joy conceals his despair at not having found the reality of joy.

— Max Jacob

Joy passed, but happiness never completely disappeared; a touch of it would always remain to remind one it had been there. It was happiness…

— Anne Holm

“Joy is as thorny and sharp as any of the dark emotions. To love someone fiercely, to believe in something with your whole heart,…

— Brené Brown

Joy was more than just an absence of discomfort.

— Brandon Sanderson

“Seek joyfulness when you can, for seeking joy leads to an auspicious atmosphere.”

— Jonathan D. Spence

To feel a full and untrammeled joy is to have become fully generous; to allow our selves to be joyful is to have walked…

— David Whyte

Joy mingled with sadness, even with grief, is the deepest human joy. It winds itself about the soul with indescribable sweetness, with a dim…

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

Joy bursts in our lives when we go about doing the good at hand and not trying to manipulate things and times to achieve…

— C. S. Lewis

Joy is the infallible sign of the presence of God.

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“Joy never comes to those who seek it. In the self-forgetting hour when we are touched by another’s need and sacrifice for it, we…

— Fulton Sheen