Quotes
Quotes about Joy
It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.
I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.
I live in the crowd of jollity, not so much to enjoy company as to shun myself.
Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.
For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seed of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love.
For sleep, riches and health to be truly enjoyed, they must be interrupted.
The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy; it lasts when all other pleasures fade.
We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.
Be very circumspect in the choice of thy company. In the society of thine equals thou shalt enjoy more pleasure; in the society of thine superiors thou shalt find more profit. To be the best in the company is the way to grow worse; the best means to grow better is to be the worst there.
In the midst of great joy, do not promise anyone anything. In the midst of great anger, do not answer anyone's letter.
That sorrow which is the harbinger of joy is preferable to the joy which is followed by sorrow.
We should manage our fortunes as we do our health - enjoy it when good, be patient when it is bad, and never apply violent remedies except in an extreme necessity.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
The deeper that sorrow carves into your being the more joy you can contain. Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter's oven?
It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds.
It is the greatest of all advantages to enjoy no advantage at all.
The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
I wish you all the joy that you can wish.
When you enjoy loving your neighbor it ceases to be a virtue.
Money may be the husk of many things but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintance, but not friends; servants, but not loyalty; days of joy, but not peace or happiness.
If you can't learn to do it well, learn to enjoy doing it badly.
Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.
