{SCA} Joy is a state of mind or feeling characterized by contentment, love, satisfaction, pleasure, or Happiness. A variety of biological, psychological, religious, and philosophical approaches have striven to define happiness and identify its sources.

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1. Mark Twain

I’m glad I did it, partly because it was worth it, but mostly because I shall never have to do it again

2. Ben Hogan

As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.

3. Mother Teresa

Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

4. Sigmund Freud

What good to us is a long life if it is difficult and barren of joys, and if it is so full of misery that we can only welcome death as a deliverer?

5. Melba Colgrove

Joy is the feeling of grinning inside.

6. Carl Sandburg

Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.

7. Earl Nightingale

Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.

8. Albert Einstein

Joy in looking and comprehending is nature’s most beautiful gift.

9. Marietta McCarty

Joy is a heart full and a mind purified by gratitude.

10. Richard Wagner

Joy is not in things; it is in us

11. Will Schultz

Joy comes from using your potential.

12. John Mason Good

Happiness consists in activity. It is a running steam, not a stagnant pool.

13. C. S. Lewis

I sometimes wander whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.

14. Anne Lamott

Joy is the best makeup.

15. Thich Nhat Hanh

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.

16. Mark Twain

Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

17. Pearl S. Buck

The secret of joy in work is contained in one word – excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.

18. C.S. Lewis

Joy is never in our power and pleasure often is

19. Rene Descartes

Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow.

20. William Shakespeare

Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind.

21. Kahlil Gibran

He who has not looked on Sorrow will never see Joy.