Joy Quotes

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Thinking happy thoughts literally creates a positive chemical change in the brain which stimulates both positive physical and psychological benefits. — Deepak Chopra
Wine is only sweet to happy men. — John Keats
The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone. — Bertolt Brecht
There is only one way to be happy by means of the heart: not to have one. — Paul Bourget
Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good. — Walter Savage Landor
Good humor is a philosophic state of mind; it seems to say to nature that we take her no more seriously than she takes us. — Ernest Renan
The happiness and unhappiness of men depends as much on their ethics as on fortune. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Life without absorbing occupation is hell; joy consists in forgetting life. — Elbert Hubbard
It is a new road to happiness, if you have strength enough to castigate a little the various impulses that sway you in turn. — George Santayana
When two people are really happy about one another one can generally assume they are mistaken. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The fiction of happiness is propagated by every tongue and confirmed by every look till at last all profess the joy which they do not… — Samuel Johnson
The destiny of mankind is arranged for happy moments every life has such but not for happy times. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Opportunities flit by while we sit regretting the chances we have lost, and the happiness that comes to us we heed not, because of the… — Jerome K. Jerome
Few people want the pleasures they are free to take. — Unknown Author
Enjoyment always has a spoiling, otherwise it cannot be so. — John Donne
All fits of pleasure are balanced by an equal degree of pain and languor; it's like spending this year part of next year's revenue. — Jonathan Swift
I look at what I have not and think myself unhappy; others look at what I have and think me happy. — Philibert Joseph Roux
The gayety of life, like the beauty and the moral worth of life, is a saving grace, which to ignore is folly, and to destroy… — Agnes Repplier
The wretched are in this respect fortunate, that they have the strongest yearning after happiness; and to desire is in some sense to enjoy. — William Hazlitt
To seek out in a world full of joy the one thing that is certain to give you pain, and hug it to your bosom… — Jean Giraudoux

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