intrinsic joy Quotes

Happiness is a state of non-contradictory joy--a joy without penalty or guilt, a joy that does not clash with any of your values and does not work for your own destruction, not the joy of escaping from your mind, but of using your mind's fullest power, not the joy of faking reality, but of achieving values that are real, not the joy of a drunkard, but of a producer.

What induces a child to learn but his delight in knowing?

Your unhappiness is not due to your want of a fortune or high position or fame or sufficient vitamins. It is due not to a want of something outside of you, but to a want of something inside you. You were made for perfect happiness. No wonder everything short of God disappoints you.

I swim for myself. I love it, I have fun, and just representing my country is the greatest honor I could ever have.

On a deeper level you are already complete. When you realize that, there is a joyous energy behind what you do.

Happiness has little to do with what is going on around you, and a lot to do with what is going on inside you.

Happiness is intrinsic, it's an internal thing. When you build it into yourself, no external circumstances can take it away.

Happiness is something you get from yourself. If you're completely satisfied with yourself, nobody can take it away from you.

Happiness consists not of having, but of being; not of possessing, but of enjoying. It is a warm glow of the heart at peace with itself. A martyr at the stake may have happiness that a king on his throne might envy. Man is the creator of his own happiness. It is the aroma of life, lived in harmony with high ideals. For what a man has he may be dependent upon others; what he is rests with him alone.

There are two kinds of climbers, those who climb because their heart sings when they're in the mountains, and all the rest.

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.

Joy is the happiness of love - love aware of its own inner happiness. Pleasure comes from without, and joy comes from within, and it is, therefore, within reach of everyone in the world.

No one undertakes research in physics with the intention of winning a prize. It is the joy of discovering something no one knew before.

You are quaffing drink from a hundred fountains: whenever any of these hundred yields less, your pleasure is diminished. But when the sublime fountain gushes from within you, no longer need you steal from the other fountains.

Few have greater riches than the joy That comes to us in visions, In dreams which nobody can take away.

You cannot find it anywhere, because it is located inside you... happiness is your natural state.

We are born with the seed of joy; it is up to us to nurture it.

I don't know. I think you're born with that. I've always been somebody that enjoys life. I want to be happy in it, and I've always been that way. Since I was a kid, I really was somebody that was active. It's just an inner drive, and a willingness to lead a good life.

Happiness is a state of mind, so the real source of happiness must lie within the mind, not in external conditions.

I don't think anything gives your life joy and meaning. I think your life simply has joy and meaning. The love for my children, the love for my parents and the love for my friends is the end in itself. The meaning is life.

False pleasures come from without and are imperfect: happiness is internal and our own.

The laws of our being are such that we must perform some degree of use in the world, whether we intend it, or not; but we can deprive ourselves of its indwelling joy, by acting entirely from the love of self.

Meditation is enjoying oneself, just sitting silently doing nothing: happy, joyous without any reason, because all reasons come from outside. You meet a beautiful woman and you are happy, or you meet a beautiful man and you are happy - but the meditator is simply happy. His happiness has no reason from the outside world; his happiness wells up within himself.

Find your happiness in yourself.

Happiness, I think, has to come in the beginning, truly, from feeling a sense of well-being within yourself. To me it's that incredible sense of belonging and peace within your own self and heart that really is joy.