Happiness is one of the greatest values of people. Joy is something that keeps the light of life in us and helps us to get up every day and to go to work, to communicate with people, to cook and to sleep. It is difficult to take everything with joy and happiness. The modern world doesn’t allow people to keep good and positive view on the world. And there are only a few people who really take everything as positive events and things. And such people are called optimists.
Great people about joy
Joy is one of the most important parts of the emotional life of people that makes our life more interesting and beautiful. That is why people talked a lot about joy and the ways to bring joy to this world.
For example, C.S. Lewis which is the Irish author said: "I sometimes wander whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy."
And not less famous in the world Mother Teresa said: "One joy scatters a hundred grieves." And it is really so. Imagine the situation when you suffered a lot and had a great number of troubles and the result of these troubles was joy. And then all sorrows are forgotten and people think only about joy. Mother Teresa saw all sorrows of people and was always trying to help them, that is why she paid particular attention to joy and she once said: "Joy is very infectious; therefore, be always full of joy."
Chinese proverbs are known in the world as one of the most famous that keep the wisdom of humanity. And one of them says: "Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs."
And, you know, things don't bring joy. People make things bring joy. The shinning sun will make one person happy while another won't even pay attention to it. And this fact is well reflected in the quote of Richard Wagner: "Joy is not in things, it is in us."