Quote by Richard Niles

“Joy is not a mood; it is a deliberate state of mind that one can develop.”

— Frank Lunn

“If you have joy, make happy those who are sad.”

— Ronald Sanson Stresser Junior

“As a poet there is something about joy I find hard to express, whereas every other emotion is rather simple. For instance, you never…

— Criss Jami

“Joy is meant to be felt; its not meant to be detained. It is meant to be shared with others; not to be felt…

— Israelmore Ayivor

“sadness is just a stay of mind...and happiness is how we feel”

— Upasana Banerjee

“At times one feels happy being sad.”

— Hasse Jerner

“Why is it that happiness remembered feels like despair?”

— Heather Chaplin

“Perfect joy could not be joy alone but must be a joy that somehow contains our past grief and sadness and longing.”

— Amy Alznauer

“Emotion has the power to obscure and falsify knowledge: that the whole world assumes a smiling aspect when we have reason to rejoice, and…

— Irvin D. Yalom

“I love people who choose to surprise the sad ones, Just to make them smile!”

— Artist Lisa May

“Why sad over one thing when you have millions of other reasons to be happy about.”

— Lovely Goyal

“The more we practice sympathetic joy, the more we come to realize that the happiness we share with others is inseparable from our own…

— Sharon Salzberg