Lasting Joy Quotes

A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.

If thou do ill, the joy fades, not the pains. If well, the pain doth fade, the joy remains.

Enjoy every minute you have with those you love, my dear, for no one can take joy that is past away from you. It will be there in your heart to live on when the dark days come.

Riches can all be lost, but that happiness in your own heart can only be veiled, and it will bring you happiness again, as long as you live.

Without Goodness one cannot enjoy enduring happiness

I really believe that happiness comes from things that cannot taken away from you.

Happiness isn't a fortune in a cookie. It's deeper, wider, funnier, and more transporting than that.

Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality.

I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by which I cannot live in, make love to, possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy.

Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.

Lasting joy is found not in what you get, but in what you give.

The momentary thrill of getting rarely equals the lasting joy of giving.

A lot of people say there is no happiness in this life and certainly there's no permanent happiness. But self-sufficiency creates happiness.

I focused my life on things that are a little more dependable, like my family and things that actually make me happy, rather than momentary flashes of success or anything like that.

A good character is the only guarantee of everlasting, carefree happiness.

There is an hour wherein a man might be happy all his life, could he find it.

I sometimes wake in the early morning & listen to the soft breathing of my children & I think to myself, this is one thing I will never regret & I carry that quiet with me all day long.

This habit of reading, I make bold to tell you, is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures. It lasts when all other pleasures fade. It will support you when all other recreations are gone. It will last until your death. It will make your hours pleasant to you as long as you live.

The most satisfying project you will ever undertake-and a mark of a complete human being-is to discover how to build a sense of happiness that no one can take away from you.

When, from the depths of your heart, you spontaneously wish all beings to find true, lasting happiness, this is great love.

Seek first what is true and of value, and then whatever happiness follows will be of the appropriate quantity and, more importantly, quality.

Marriage is actually one of the things that keeps you happy.

For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.

You'll make mistakes and struggle like everyone, but when you are with the right person, you'll almost perfect joy, like you are the luckiest person who ever lived. And that means you'll love and be loved...and in the end, nothing else really matters.

I think it's so foolish for people to want to be happy. Happy is so momentary--you're happy for an instant and then you start thinking again. Interest is the most important thing in life; happiness is temporary, but interest is continuous.