Quotes about "Happiness & Joy"

Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the mind that lives. ”

Tell me not of joy: there's none Now my little sparrow's gone; He, just as you, Would toy and woo, He would chirp and flatter me, He would hang the wing awhile, Till at length he saw me smile, Lord! how sullen he would be! ”

Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing. ”

He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sun rise. ”

Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps. ”

Energy is an eternal delight, and he who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence. ”

I have no name: I am but two days old. What shall I call thee? I happy am, Joy is my name. Sweet joy befall thee! ”

The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself. ”

The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of common man. ”

On the recollection of so many and great favours and blessings, I now, with a high sense of gratitude, presume to offer up my sincere thanks to the Almighty, the Creator and Preserver. ”