Joy Quote by Forrest Thomson

“All the (sickness and) diseases of the worldly life disappear with the innate bliss of the Soul, the Self. Grief gives rise to the…

— Dada Bhagwan

“Joyous distrust is a sign of health. Everything absolute belongs to pathology.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“There came a time in my life when I had to admit to myself that I have some very clear narcissistic tendencies. Ironically, it…

— Beverly Engel

“Illness is the most heeded of doctors: to kindness and wisdom we make promises only; pain we obey.”

— Marcel Proust

“one can grow so well accustomed as to smile at them, to take the tormentor’s side with a. happy determination which deludes one into…

— Marcel Proust

“misery marks the countenance worse than sickness.”

— Mrs. Henry Wood

“Intoxicating joy it is for the sufferer to look away from his suffering and forget himself. Intoxicating joy and self-forgetting, the world once seemed…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“The body is a treacherous friend. Give it its due; no more. Pain and pleasure are transitory; endure all dualities with calmness, trying at…

— Paramahansa Yogananda

“The pain of the narcissist is that, to him, everything is really a threat. What doesn't surrender in reverence is blasphemous to a high…

— Criss Jami

“those who suffer intolerably learn to hide their afflictions, both necessary and unnecessary, because the world does not run on pain time but on…

— Thomas Ligotti

“It's precisely in despair that you find the most intense pleasure, especially if you are already powerfully conscious of the hopelessness of your predicament.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“It is rarely in the world's history that its ideal has been one of joy and beauty. The worship of pain has far more…

— Oscar Wilde