23 June 2026 2 min read
find-joy-not-pleasure

“Pleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within.” — Eckhart Tolle

“Pleasure can override happiness and create kind of this illusion of happiness. If you ask people when they felt genuinely happy for an extended time, they were probably doing some variation of nothing.” — Naval Ravikant

“The healthiest response to life is joy.” — Deepak Chopra

“Joy is the justice we give ourselves.” — Nikki Giovanni

“I slept, and dreamed that life was joy. I woke, and found that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.” — Ellen Sturgis Hooper

“True happiness has nothing to do with pleasure, because the reliance on feeling good from such intensely stimulating things only moves us further from real joy.” — Joe Dispenza, Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself: How to Lose Your Mind and Create a New One

“Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.” — Joseph Campbell

“Childhood may be defined as the age of play; therefore some children are never young, and some adults are never old.” — Will Durant


If you choose not to find joy in the snow you will have less joy in your life but the same amount of snow.

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