Quotes
Quotes about Joy
Sleep, riches, and health, to be truly enjoyed, must be interrupted.
I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described. [Fr., Je l'ai toujours dit et senti, la veritable jouissance ne se decrit point.]
You were made for enjoyment, and the world was filled with things which you will enjoy, unless you are too proud to be pleased by them, or too grasping to care for what you cannot turn to other account than mere delight.
A thing seriously pursued affords true enjoyment. [Lat., Res severa est verum gaudium.]
How could I, blest with thee, long nights employ; And how with the longest day enjoy! [Lat., Quam vellem longas tecum requiescere noctes, Et tecum longos pervigilare dies.]
Philosophers are capable of almost endless enjoyment of mutual misunderstanding.
True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united.
Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.
The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.
Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
Enjoy the journey, enjoy ever moment, and quit worrying about winning and losing.
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
If your capacity to acquire has outstripped your capacity to enjoy, you are on the way to the scrap-heap.
True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united.
My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate--that's my philosophy.
Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word "satiety.".
The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity.
Base envy withers at another's joy, And hates that excellence it cannot reach.
Seek the Infinite, for that alone is Joy unlimited, imperishable, unfailing, self-sustaining, unconditioned, timeless. When you have this joy, human life becomes a paradise; the light, the grace, the power, the perfections of that which is highest in your inner consciousness, appear in your everyday life.
An eye can threaten like a loaded and levelled gun, or it can insult like hissing or kicking; or, in its altered mood, by beams of kindness, it can make the heart dance for joy.
The way to stop financial joy-riding is to arrest the chauffeur, not the automobile.
The dynamics of capitalism is postponement of enjoyment to the constantly postponed future.
O joy! that in our embers Is something that doth live.
Oh the brave Fisher's life, It is the best of any, 'Tis full of pleasure, void of strife, And 'tis belov'd of many: Other joys Are but toys; Only this Lawful is, For our skill Breeds no ill, But content and pleasure.
Old Peter Grimes made fishing his employ; His wife he cabined with him and his boy, And seemed that life laborious to enjoy.
