Happiness and Joy

You pray in your distress and in your need; you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.

I'll give you my phone number. When you worried, call me! I make you happy.

Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress.

We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.

Music heals all forms of misery

The clouds above us join and separate, The breeze in the courtyard leaves and returns. Life is like that, so why not relax? Who can stop us from celebrating?

Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.

Who loves a garden still his Eden keeps, Perennial pleasures plants, and wholesome harvests reaps.

Dreams, books, are each a world; and books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure and good: Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow.

Love set you going like a fat gold watch.

Il faut rire avant que d’être heureux, de peur de mourir sans avoir ri.

No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.

When large numbers of people share their joy in common, the happiness of each is greater because each adds fuel to the other’s flame.

May you live all the days of your life.

We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

Happiness . . . is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.

The soul should always stand ajar. Ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.

I would always rather be happy than dignified.

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.

O sky above me, you modest, glowing sky! O you, my happiness before sunrise! Day is coming: so let us part!

How fares it with the happy dead?

 

The most successful people are those who do all year long what they would otherwise do on their summer vacation .

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.

Intellectual ''work'' is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a dissipation, and is its own highest reward.