Adversity Quote by Epicurus

Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.

— Honore de Balzac

Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it yourself. In giving it, you will accumulate a deposit of…

— Norman Vincent Peale

Present joys are more to flesh and blood Than a dull prospect of a distant good.

— John Dryden

Even the simple joys are too good to let slip away.

— T Jay Taylor

Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow.

— Rene Descartes

Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself.

— Norman Vincent Peale

Joy is being the best while having fun doing it.

— Anonymous

The more we allow ourselves to enjoy, the more reasons we find to be joyful.

— Marianne Williamson

Technological society has succeeded in multiplying the opportunities for pleasure, but it has great difficulty in generating joy.

— Pope Paul VI

The most visible joy can only reveal itself to us when we've transformed it, within.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

A joy as intense as pain

— Nicholas Sparks

“You can't fake joy. Authentic joy is the kind that grows out of the soil of pain and doubt and fear, because that is…

— Holly Ordway