Joy quotes, with sources

Love exalts our earthly bodies to heaven, And makes the very hills to dance with joy!

What a joy to be alive!

Love your life, poor as it is.

Without music life would be a mistake.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

Angels can fly because they can take themselves lightly.

I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

The supreme happiness of life consists in the conviction that one is loved.

The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.

The test of all happiness is gratitude; and I felt grateful, though I hardly knew to whom.

Exuberance is Beauty.

There is no wealth but life.

Your joy is your sorrow unmasked.

The pleasure of love is in loving.

We live in this world when we love it.

He who is satisfied with his lot is rich.

A sense of humour is a sense of proportion.

On the seashore of endless worlds children meet.

We turn not older with years, but newer every day.

That I exist is a perpetual surprise which is life.

To me every hour of the light and dark is a miracle.

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist.

That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.

I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.

The most manifest sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness.

Kiss the earth and love it with an unceasing, consuming love.

Health is the greatest of gifts, contentedness the best riches.

There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.

Life is paradise, and we are all in paradise, but we won’t see it.

Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great.

To live is so startling, it leaves but little room for other occupations.

A child kicks his legs rhythmically through excess, not absence, of life.

To absorb a thing is better than to learn it, and we absorb what we enjoy.

There is always some madness in love. But there is always, also, some method in madness.

Love is the only ecstasy.

It is a great art to saunter.

God never made an ugly landscape.

The bluebird carries the sky on his back.

The secret of fortune is joy in our hands.

Humor is the great thing, the saving thing.

Be glad as children, as the birds of heaven.

The soul of sweet delight can never be defiled.

My heart leaps up when I behold a rainbow in the sky.

If it were not for guests, all houses would be graves.

Love is life in its fulness like the cup with its wine.

Let us live happily then, though we call nothing our own!

The wonder of the world grows the more we grasp its history.

There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.

I will enjoy the present, and the past shall be for me the past.

No good thing is pleasant to possess, without friends to share it.

There is no calamity greater than to be discontented with one’s lot.

He who has given up both victory and defeat, he, the contented, is happy.

On the seashore of endless worlds the children meet with shouts and dances.

You never enjoy the world aright, till the Sea itself floweth in your veins.

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.

A smile is the same as sunshine; it banishes winter from the human countenance.

There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise.

Cheerfulness is a direct and immediate gain,—the very coin, as it were, of happiness.

A thing is only completely our own when it is a thing of joy to us.

We classify too much and enjoy too little.

Perfection is everywhere if we only choose to recognise it.

The hills and the sea and the earth dance.

For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.

Beauty is not a need but an ecstasy.