“Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.” – Joseph Campbell
“Contentment is not something to be gained by possession. You can not work simply at being content, but must work at making a difference. True …
“Stop wishing, be it!…” – Philip T. M.
“Life is so beautiful, but when you look at it with all your worries, it seems nothing but troublesome. It’s time to be still and …
“Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself. In giving it, you will accumulate a deposit of …
“Contentment is not something to be gained by possession. You can not work simply at being content, but must work at making a difference. True …
“May your joys be as bright as the morning, and your sorrows merely be shadows that fade in the sunlight of love. May you have …
“We do not live an equal life, but one of contrasts and patchwork; now a little joy, then a sorrow, now a sin, then a …
“Yesterday is but a dream, tomorrow but a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision …
“Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are …
“In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable and must be content with broken portions.” – William Osler
“Unjust laws exist: shall we be content to obey them” – Henry David Thoreau
“Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.” – Thich Nhat Hanh
“… joy and sorrow are inseparable. . . together they come and when one sits alone with you . . . remember that the other …
“Contentment is not something to be gained by possession. You can not work simply at being content, but must work at making a difference. True …
“There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.” – Swami Sivananda
“Even when they have nothing, the Irish emit a kind of happiness, a joy.” – Fiona Shaw
“I celebrate myself, and what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. I loafe and invite …
“To be content with little is hard; to be content with much, impossible” – Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
“The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment.” – Doug Larson
“The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic” – Charles …
“Love-matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.” – Countess of (Marguerite …
“Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.” – Joseph …
“I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.” – Rabindranath …
“Who pleasure gives, Shall joy receive” – Benjamin Franklin
“The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just recently fallen in love is undisguisable.” – John Cheever
“Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though t’were his own.” …
“A day of sorrow is longer than a month of joy” – Chinese Proverbs
“If you think back and replay your year, if it doesn’t bring you tears either of joy or sadness, consider it wasted.” – Ally McBeal
“All of the happiness you seek, all of the joy for which you prayed, is closer than you think, it’s just a hundred tears away…” …
“He has the most who is most content with the least” – Diogenes
“When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and brings joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life” …
“Thoughts give joy when they speak or act. Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them.” – Buddha
“There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.” – Kahlil Gibran
“He that has a good harvest must be content with a few thistles” – Spanish Proverb
“An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.” – Charles de Montesquieu
“Joy’s recollection is no longer joy, while sorrow’s memory is sorrow still” – Lord Byron
“What he had not learned, however, was this: to find contentment in himself and his own life” – Hermann Hesse
“Don’t be afraid to expand yourself, to step out of your comfort zone. That’s where the joy and the adventure lie.” – Herbie Hancock
“Reverence, humility, contentment, gratitude and hearing the good Dhamma, this is the best good luck” – Buddha