Difficulty Quote by Pope Paul VI

“technological society has succeeded in multiplying occasions of pleasure, yet has found it very difficult to engender joy.”

— Pope Francis

Well why not a technology of joy, of happiness?

— Abraham Maslow

Joy is never in our power and pleasure often is

— Anonymous

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

— Anonymous

How do we cultivate the conditions for joy to expand? We train in staying present.

— Pema Chodron

Joy is something that we have to choose and then work for.

— Francis Chan

Joy is realized as the natural by-product of the passionate pursuit of something other than happiness.

— Marc Gafni

There is a direct relationship between joy and effort. The joy of success is in ratio to the amount of effort expended to achieve…

— Denis Waitley

Unending joy is actually closer to us than our own skin, and there is nothing we have to do or get or be to…

— Srikumar Rao

Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men but from doing something worthwhile.

— Anonymous

“It might be useful to distinguish between pleasure and joy. But maybe everybody does this very easily, all the time, and only I am…

— Zadie Smith

A lot of people seem to feel that joy is only the most intense version of pleasure, arrived at by the same road -…

— Zadie Smith