Joy/Pleasure
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"It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace." Chuck Palahniuk
"Joy and sorrow are inseparable... Together they come, and when one sits alone with you at your board, remember that the other is asleep upon your bed." Kahlil Gibran
"All joy in this world comes from wanting others to be happy, and all suffering in this world comes from wanting only oneself to be happy." Shantideva
"I've always thought that a big laugh is a really loud noise from the soul saying, 'Ain't that the truth.'" Quincy Jones



"It is how people respond to stress that determines whether they will profit from misfortune or be miserable." Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, 1990
"Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you." Lao Tzu [May 31, 2010
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"We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves." Siddhartha
[May 12, 2010
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"May your life be like a wildflower growing freely in the beauty and joy of each day."Â Indian Proverb
"The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too." Samuel Butler
"Without the warming & mellowing that good friendship brings into life, we invariably lose gratitude and joy." Ronald Rolheiser
"Though dreams can be deceiving, like faces are to hearts,
they serve for sweet relieving, when fantasy and reality lie too far apart." Fiona Apple
"I think that no matter how old or infirm I may become, I will always plant a large garden in the spring.
Who can resist the feelings of hope and joy that one gets from participating in nature's rebirth?" Edward Giobbi
"Above all, do not lose your desire to walk: every day I walk myself into a state of well-being and away from every illness; I have walked myself into my best thoughts, and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it . . . ." Soren Kierkegaard
"If the essence of my being has caused a smile to have appeared upon your face or a touch of joy within your heart.Then in living - I have made my mark." Thomas L. Odem, Jr
"When we harness the forces of harmony, joy and love, we create success and good fortune with effortless ease." Deepak Chopra
“There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrate to some stroke of the imagination.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Discipline is not torturing oneself for nothing--that's no discipline. The purpose of discipline is to obtain joy." Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
"When you have confidence, you can have a lot of fun. And when you have fun, you can do amazing things." Joe Namath
"One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community." Albert Einstein [May 02, 2006
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“To give pleasure to a single heart by a single kind act is better than a thousand head-bowings in prayer.” Saadi, poet (c. 1200 AD) [May 05, 2005
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“I can't think of any sorrow in the world that a hot bath wouldn't help, just a little bit.” Susan Glasee
“Every artist wants his work to be permanent. But what is? The Aswan Dam covered some of the greatest art in the world. Venice is sinking. Great books and pictures were lost in the Florence floods. In the meantime we still enjoy butterflies.” Romare Bearden
“Somehow not only for Christmas But all the long year through, The joy that you give to others Is the joy that comes back to you.” E. B. White
“Joy is not in things; it is in us.” Richard Wagner, German dramatic composer and theorist, 1813-1883
“He who binds himself to a joy Does the winged life destroy. But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity’s sunrise.” Wlliam Blake
“Spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good... give it, give it all, give it now.” Annie Dillard
“Life is about pleasure and enjoyment, and if we are not enjoying what we are doing, then why are we doing it?" Don Norman
“The morning cup of coffee has an exhilaration about it which the cheering influence of the afternoon or evening cup of tea cannot be expected to reproduce.” Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr
“In a full heart there is room for everything, and in the empty heart there is room for nothing.” Antonio Porchia [May 30, 2003
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“ . . . one of life’s greatest pleasures, even richer than that of getting what you want in life, was being able, quite simply, to give someone you love what they want.” Nancy Thayer, “Custody”
“Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.” Thich Nhat Hanh
“Humor helps us to think out of the box. The average child laughs about 400 times per day, the average adult laughs only 15 times per day. What happened to the other 385 laughs?” Anonymous
“Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not only permits such inertia but enforces it, thus neatly eliminating all problems of guilt. It is now the only place in our overly active world that does.” John Kenneth Galbraith
“Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.” James Matthew Barrie, author (1860-1937)
“How many joys are crushed under foot because people look up at the sky and disregard what is at their feet?” Catharina Elisabetha Goethe |
