Joseph Joubert Quotes

Laughter is inner jogging.

Follow your heart's truth with no need for personal gain other than the feeling produced when doing what you truly love.

When you are happy from inside, it will reflect on your face.

You just have to be authentic. You can't fake a smile. You have to do what you actually enjoy.

It's good to be employable, but I hope to show the truth. The paintings seem true because nobody wants me to do them.

The Highest Thought is always that thought which contains joy. The Clearest Words are those words which contain truth. The Grandest Feeling is that feeling which you call love.

Child, to say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than what you really mean; that's the whole art and joy of words.

Clap along if you feel like a room without a roof Clap along if you feel like happiness is the truth.

Say as you think and speak it from your souls.

If you are joyful, do not worry about lukewarmness. Joy will shine in your eyes and in your look, in your conversation and in your countenance. You will not be able to hide it because joy overflows.

I will not hide my tastes or aversions. I will so trust that what is deep is holy, that I will do strongly before the sun and moon whatever only rejoices me, and the heart appoints

Be sincere in your thoughts, Be pure in your feelings. You will not have to run after happiness. Happiness will run after you.

Inside everyone is a great shout of joy waiting to be born.

Never misunderstand seriousness for sincerity. Sincerity is very playful, never serious. It is true, authentic, but never serious. Sincerity does not have a long face, it is bubbling with joy, radiating with an inner joyousness.

True happiness is to rejoice in the truth, for to rejoice in the truth is to rejoice in You, O God, who are the truth... Those who think that there is another kind of happiness look for joy elsewhere, but theirs is not true joy.

Laughter is the fireworks of the soul.

You cannot instill joy. You can only find where it lives and bring it forth.

Feel the joy .. feel the happiness.

Personally, I didn't think there was anything wrong with sadness. Just the opposite – hypocrisy made people happy and truth made them sad.

I try to be genuine. I try to be real. It's such a subjective thing, but I try to convey an emotion.

I want to be real. I want to be a real person. That's what an artist is. An artist has to be honest. Without honesty, there's nothing.

The line of lovelessness is not drawn between speaking and doing, but between speaking and doing in the truth, and speaking and doing in emptiness. Truth turns word-love into deed-love.

I've never been that person to fake it, and say what everyone else wants you to say. Then you never have anything personal. If I wanted to be an actress all the time, I could do that. But I don't. I want to be real. I want to be a real person. That's what an artist is. An artist has to be honest. Without honesty, there's nothing.

Life is not for show, but for real.

I feel joy when I do a great show.