401 Quotes About Joy (Joy Quotes)

“Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.” – Joseph Campbell
“If we aren’t capable of being hurt, we aren’t capable of feeling joy.’ – Madeleine L’Engle
“Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in the spirit of joy.” – Mahondas Gandhi
“Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home. It’s your responsibility to love it, or change it.” – Chuck Palahniuk
“Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on the bight morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.” – Erick Fromm
“Find joy in the journey.”
“Joy is the holy first hat keeps our purpose war and our intelligence aglow.” – Helen Keller
“Joy is what happens to use when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.” – Marianne Williamson
“A joyful heart is the normal result of a heart burning with love. She gives most who gives with joy.” – Mother Theresa
“When you feel a peaceful joy, that’s when you are near truth.” – Rumi
“Joy is prayer, joy is strength, joy is love. Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.” – Mother Theresa
“Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.” – Mother Theresa
“When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.” – Buddha
“When you wish someone joy, you wish them peace, love, prosperity, happiness. All the good things.” – Maya Angelou
“Enjoy the little things and be joyful, for one day you may look back and realized they were actually the things that mattered.”
There is such joy in embracing everything as it comes. Neither holding onto nor pushing away. The moment is here just as it is until it’s not here. And then something else will be free, or it won’t.” – Michael Jeffreys
“Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day.” – Henri J.M. Nouwen
“I like joy, I want to be joyous. I want to smile and I want to make people laugh. And that’s all i want. I like being happy. I want to make others happy.” – Doris Day
“The real joy in life comes from finding your true purpose and aligning it with what you do every single day.” – Tony Robbins
“When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you. a joy.” – Rumi
“The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.” – Charles Dickens
“Love is the joy of good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.” – Plato
“The only true measure of success is the amount of joy we are feeling.” – Abraham Hicks
“The body heals with play, the mind heals with laughter and the spirit heals with joy.” – Proverb
“Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile.” – Wilfred T. Grenfell
“Good is not the opposite of evil, joy is the opposite of evil.” – Michael Venturea
“The joy we feel has little to do with the circumstances of our lives and everything to do with the focus of our lives.” – Russell M. Nelson
“Live beyond ‘what if’, find joy in ‘what is’.”
“Pleasure is always derived from something outside of you, whereas joy arises from within.” – Eckhart Tolle
“The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it.” – Thich Nhat Hanh
“Joy springs from a grateful heart.” – Pope Francis
“Take a stand for yourself and refuse to let people steal your joy today.”
“Joy unspeakable, faith unsinkable, love unstoppable. Anything is possible.”
“Thank you for bringing joy to my heart, beauty to my world and love to my life.”
“Joy transcends all other emotions.” – Ann Voskamp
“Joy is a decision, a really brave one about how you are going to respond to life.” – Weiss Stafford
“Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.” – Sara Ban Breathnach
“If we cannot find joy in the journey, there will be no delight in the destination.” – Will Craig
“When we are centered in joy, we attain our wisdom.” – Marianne Williamson
“The joy in hospice volunteering comes from opening my heart to vulnerability and the burden of worry, sorrow or pain and transforming energy back into a nurturing, quiet and gentle presence.” – Julie Engstrom
“Life is hard, choose joy anyway.”
“It is not joy that makes us grateful. It is gratitude that makes us joyful.”
“Practice joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.” – Joseph Campbell
“To get the full value of joy, you must have someone to divide it with.” – Mark Twain
“You are born to love, care and share without expectation to feel the pure joy of life.” – Debasish Mridha
“Friendship, love, health, energy, enthusiasm and joy are things that make life worth living and exploring.” – Denise Austin
“Find ecstasy in life. The mere sense of living is joy enough.” – Emily Dickinson
“In life, we will always encounter difficult people. Don’t allow them to frustrate you or steal your joy.” – Victoria Osteen
“The essence of life is not in the great victories and grand failures, but in the simple joys.” – Jonathan Lockwood Huie
“The more the heart is sated with joy, the more it becomes instatiable.” – Gabrielle Roy
“Joy is probably the most vulnerable emotion we experience in our lives.” – Brene Brown
“A joyful life is not a floodlight of joy. A joyful life is made up of joyful moments gracefully strung together by trust, gratitude, inspiration and faith.” – Brene Brown
“Events bring you small joy, while existence brings you bliss.” – Sri Sri
“True joy comes when you inspire, encourage, and guide someone else on a path that benefits him or her.” – Zig Ziglar
“From the mud of adversity grows the lotus of joy.” – Carolyn Marsden
“If you carry joy in your heart, you can heal any moment.” – Carlos Santana
“Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.” – Thcih Nhat Hanh
“Joy is not in things, it is in us.” – Richard Wagner
“A flower blossoms for it’s own joy.” – Oscar Wilde
“Find out where joy resides and give it a voice far beyond singing. For to miss the joy is to miss all.” – Robert Louise Stevenson
“You are free to think thoughts of worry and joy and whatever you choose will attract the same kind back to you. Worry attracts worry. Joy attracts joy.” – Rhonda Byrne
“I think humanity has forgotten, this planet is for joy.” – Alice Walker
“When it comes to the bigger decisions, we must have the wisdom to choose joy, no matter how fun the alternative.” – Augustine Wetta
“Scatter joy!” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Joy is to fun what the deep sea is a to a puddle. It’s a feeling inside that you can hardly be contained.” – Terry Pratchett
“Gratitude changes the pangs of memory into a tranquil joy.” – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“Joy cannot be pursued. It comes from within. It is a state of being. It does not depend on circumstances, but triumphs over circumstances. It produces a gentleness of spirit and a magnetic personality.” – Billy Graham
“The greatest joy in all of living is the joy that comes from freely giving.”
“Each day holds the possibilities for great discoveries and hidden joy.”
“Take risks for joy. Sometimes just saying yes can set your whole life into motion.”
“It’s all about reprogramming our minds to focus more on what brings us joy.” – Alaric Hutchinson
“The joy of the mind is the measure of it’s strength.” – Ninon de L’Enclos
“Joy lies in the fight, in the attempt, in the suffering involved, not in the victory itself.” – Mahatma Gandhi
“Joy is the serious business of heaven.” – C.S. Lewis
“When you life with an open heart, unexpected, joyful things happen.” – Oprah Winfrey
“The soul’s joy lies in doing.” – Percy Bysshe Shelley
“You will find joy in overcoming obstacles.” – Helen Keller
“If you are joyful, do not worry about lukewarmness. Joy will shine in your yes and in your look, in your conversation and in your countenance. You will not be able to hid it because joy overflows.” – Mother Theresa
“Find joy in the ordinary.”
“Joy is not a season, it’s a way of living.” – Kalley Heligenthal
“We have to choose joy and keep choosing it.” – Henri J.M. Nouwen
“Joy came always after pain.” – Guillaume Apollinaire
“Choosing joy is being able to see God’s goodness even when life is hard and messy.”
“There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“To say nothing more or less or other than what you really mean, that’s the whole art and joy of worlds.” – C.S. Lewis
“For the joy and laughter, and for the challenging lessons, for the hope and love and for the difficult blessings, I am thankful.” – Mary Davis
“It’s always such a joy that you wake up in the morning and there’s work to do.” – Jerome Lawrence
“One must have sorrow to truly appreciate joy.” – Megan Hart
“To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.” – Pearl S. Buck
“At every moment of our life, we have an opportunity to choose joy.” – Henri J.M. Nouwen
“Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of joy of those who work with joy.” – Khalil Gibran
“Tears of joy are like the summer rain, pierced by sunbeams.” – Hosea Ballou
“Everyday, or at least twice a week, take a few minutes and focus on seeing yourself in joy. Feel yourself in joy. Imagine online joy ahead in your life and see yourself basking in it. As you do this, the universe will move all people, circumstances and events to bring joy, joy and more joy.” – Rose Byrne
“Joy is the most magnetic force in the universe.”
“Never ever underestimate the power of joy.”
“Love yourself, see the good, be calm, find joy, give thanks.” – Mary Davis
“Speak of your joy often.”
“The most beautiful moments in life are moments when you are expressing your joy, not when you are seeking it.” – Jaggi Vasudev
“If I could give you any gift, I’d give you love and laughter. A peaceful heart. A special dream and joy forever after.”
“Joy is not necessarily the absence of suffering, it is the presence of God.” – Sam Storms
“Joy is part of our spirit bubbling up to interact with the world.”
“Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Do good, live in the most positive and joyful way possible every day.” – Roy T. Bennett
“Keep finding the joy in what you’re doing, especially when the joy is not finding you.” – Lauren Graham
“And I wish you joy and happiness, but above all this, I wish you love.” – Whitney Houston
“What joy to fully know and feel the bond of true friendship.” – Jaye L. Knight
“Joy is the infallible sign of the presence of God.” – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
“Joy comes in the morning.” – Psalm 30:5
“When you are looking for joy, you will always find it hiding in your gratitude.”
“Joy is the echo of God’s life in us.”
“Joy is always possible because there is always something to be thankful for.”
“Joy to the fishes in the deep blue sea, joy to you and me!”
“She found joy and wonder in every little thing. And joy and wonder always found her.” – Katrina Mayer
“A thing of beauty is a joy forever. It’s loveliness increases, it will never pass into darkness.” – John Keats
“Friendship will always find joy in unique relationships.” – Martin Murphy
“There may be peace without joy and joy without peace. But the two combined make happiness.” – John Buchan
“Focus on what you love, what brings you joy, what brings you happiness and all that to expand.” – Carol CC Miller
“Joy is increased by spreading it to others.” – Robert Murray Mccheyne
“Joy is the best makeup.” – Anne Lamott
“The healthiest response to life is joy.”
“Joy flows to the depth of meaning you give to the moment. Remember, every moment is a gift. Treat it with gratitude.” – Akiroq Brost
“Intuitive responses are responses which originate from joy.” – Sylvia Clare
“Kindness means sharing love and spreading joy.”
“Happiness is a collection of joyful experiences shared with soul friends. Get together and have some fun.” – Amy Leigh Mercree
“Those who make compassion an essential part of their lives find the joy of life. Kindness deepens the spirit and produces rewards that cannot be completely explained in words. It is an experience more powerful than words. To become acquainted with kindness, one must be prepared to learn new things and feel new feelings. Kindness is more than a philosophy of the mind. It is a philosophy of the spirit.” – Robert J. Furrey
“Joy and bills can come from the little and most unexpected thing if only we program our mind to enjoy these little things.” -RVM
“There is fullness of JOY in my presence.” – Psalm 16:11
“How else can you find joy in a joyless place except by realizing that you are not there?” – A Course in Miracles
“Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. it shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh green leaves grow in their place. It pulls up the rotten roots so that new roots hidden beneath have room to grow. Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place.” – Rumi
“Joy lifts up into the heavens, while grief pulls us down into the earth, and in this way, they both help us maintain our emotional balance.” – Jessica Moore
“Don’t let the pain of one season destroy the joy of all the rest. Don’t judge life by one difficult season.”
“A joy that is shared is a joy made double.”
“Think joy, talk joy, practice joy, share joy, saturate your mind with joy and you will have the time of your life today and everyday all your life.” – Norman Vincent Peale
“May your cup runneth over with joy, love and laughter. Oh, and really fabulous coffee.”
“Music, will help dissolve your perplexities and purify your character and sensibilities, and in time of care and sorrow, will keep a fountain of joy alive in you.” – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“There is calmness to a life lived in gratitude. A quiet joy.”
“Complaints drain joy.” – Toba Beta
“Joy is a natural phenomenon, misery is your creation.” – Sadhguru
“We must contribute joy to the world. That is true no matter what our problems, our health, our circumstances. We must try. I didn’t always know this and am happy I lived long enough to find it out.” – Roger Ebert
“There are those who give with joy and that joy is their reward.” – Khalil Gibran
“All joy reminds. It is never a possession, always a desire for something longer ago or further away or still about to be.” – C.S. Lewis
“Fear and joy are two significant words. All you have to do is to increase the component of one anjd reduce the other.” – Jitendra Attra
“This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one. The being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap of heap. The being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community, and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die for the harder I work, the more I live. I rejoice in life for it’s own sake. Life is not brief candle to me, it is sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for a moment and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handling it on to future generations.” – George Bernard Shaw
“Joy is a deeply felt contentment that transcends difficult circumstances and derives maximum enjoyment from every good experience.” – Swindoll Charles R.
“God didn’t design us to be sad. He created us to have joy.” – Dieter F. Uchtdorf
“Make joy your compass today.”
“Joy in looking and comprehending is nature’s most beautiful gift.” – Albert Einstein
“If you walk in joy, happiness is close behind.” – Todd Stocker
“Doing good for others is not a duty, it’s a joy. It increases your own health and happiness. Happy morning.” – Vishal Paryani
“The greater the sorrow, the greater our capacity to feel joy.”
“Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of it’s sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.” – Joseph Campbell
“With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.” – William Wordsworth
“There is no hope of joy except in human relations.” – Antoine De Saint Exupery
“When large numbers of people share their joy in common, the happiness of each is greater because each adds fuel to the other’s flame.” – Saint Augustine
“There is no such thing as the pursuit of happiness, but there is the discovery of joy.” – Joyce Grenfell
“Joy multiplies when it is shared among friends, but grief diminishes with ever division. That is life.” – R.A. Salvatore
“When work is a pleasure, life is joy. When work is a duty, life is slavery.” – Maxim Gorky
“Success is realizing the true joy and wonder of life, can only be yours if you follow your intuition, aiming to achieve your bliss.” – Steven Redhead
“Joy must be one of the pivots of our life. It is the token of a generous personality. Sometimes it is also a mantle that clothes a life of sacrifice and self-giving. A person who has the gift often reaches high summits. He or she is like sun in a community.” – Mother Theresa
“Life doesn’t have to be perfect to be filled with joy.”
In the morning sunrise, the joy of a new day is upon me. What will I co-create today? What will be my choices? What will be my legacy? For what I choose, I create.” – The Alchemist
“Like the rainbow after the rain, joy will reveal itself after sorrow.” – Rupi Kaur
“I want you to fall deeply in love with life, to recognize all the wonder and magic and mystery the world has to offer. I want you to know joy and to make time and connect and play.” – John Sean Doyle
“Life is not a race. Find joy in the journey.”
“Things don’t provide us with joy, it is experiencing the thing that brings us joy.’ – Melissa Heisler
“More than whimsy, joy is a weapon we use to fight life’s battles.”
“Joy, NOUN. A feeling of great pleasure and happiness caused by something exceptionally good or satisfying. Keen delight, elation.”
“The joys of life come from our encounters with new experiences. There is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.”
“To have joy in your heart, one must know how to appreciate the small things in life.”
“Peace, kindness, joy and laughter are good for the soul.” – Gift Gugu Mona
“My heart dances with joy and sings with passion when it hears the music of love.” – Debasish Mridha
“Perfect joy excludes even the very feeling of joy, for in the soul filled by the objects no corner is left for saying ‘I’. We cannot imagine such joys when they are absent, thus the incentive for seeing them is lacking.” – Simone Weil
“Christmas is joy, an inner joy of light and peace.” – Pope Francis
“Spread joy, chase your wildest dreams.” – Patch Adams
“A thing of beauty is a joy forever. It’s loveliness increases, it will never pass into nothingness.” – John Keats
“We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.” – Kahlil Gibran
“Joy is sometimes a blessing, but it is often a conquest. Our magic moments elp us to change and sends us off in search of our dreams. Yes, we are going to suffering, we will have difficult times, and we will experience many disappointments, but all of this is transitory it leaves no permanent makr. And one day we will look back with pride and faith at the journey we have taken.” – Paulo Coelho
“There is no joy equal to that of being able to work for all humanity and doing what you’re doing well.” – r. Buckminister Fuller
“Joy comes to us in ordinary moments. We risk missing out when we get too busy chasing down the extraordinary.” – Brene Brown
“Comparison is the thief of joy.” – Theodore Roosevelt
“The joy of brightening other lives, bearing each others burdens, easing other’s loads and supplanting empty hearts and lives with generous gifts becomes for us the magic of Christmas.” – W.C. Jones
“Refuse normalcy. Beauty is everywhere, love is endless, and joy bleeds from our everyday existence.” – Embrace it
“Balance, peace and joy are the fruit of a successful life. It starts with recognizing your talents and finding ways to serve others by using them.” – Thomas Kinkade
“True inner joy is self created. It does not depend on outer circumstances. A river is flowing in and the through you carrying the message of joy. This divine joy is the sole purpose of life.” – Sri Chinmoy
“Joy is the settled assurance that God is in control of all the details of my life, the quiet confidence that ultimately everything is going to be all right, and the determined choice to praise God in all things.” – Kay Warren
“If your mind is clear and at peace, then your path leads to joy and happiness. However, if your mind is cluttered and frantic, then your path leads to suffering and frustration.” – J.R. Incer
“Joy is one’s fuel.” – Ayn Rand
“Do not let the fear of failure overwhelm joys success.” – Robert T. Kiyosaki
“May the joy that you give to others be the joy that comes back to you.”
“The joy of the Lord is your strength.” – Nehemiah 8:10
“The greatest joy comes from giving and serving. When you make the shift to supporting others in your life, without expecting anything in return, you’ll think less about what you want and fin comfort and joy in the act of giving and serving. This giving, loving, serving person is the real you.” – Wayne Dyer
“Your suffering is the manure to your joy garden. Let it serve you.” – Dr. Shannon South
“We came here to find joy by giving it away with love.” – Debasish Mridha
“We could all do with a bit more joy in our lives couldn’t we? The wonderful thing is that when we start spreading joy, we begin to actually experience more joy in our lives too.” – Steve Goodier
“When we find joy in our heart, everything around us becomes joyful too. – Debasish Mridha
“A simple celebration, a gathering of friends, here is wishing you great happiness, a joy that never ends.” – Zahid Abas
“The best way to be happy is to turn the negatives into positives. Don’t let anyone steal your joy and be thankful for what you have.”
“Seek joy in what you give, not in what you get.”
“Innovation comes from people who take joy in the work.” – W. Edwards Deming
“Your mind will dance with joy and peace when you stop complaining and start forgiving.” – Debasish Mridha
“The fruit of joy is right there in you, let it blossom.” – Paul Bamikole
“It’s only natural to feel lonely after the enjoyable moments pass. But as you experience new joys those feelings of sorrow will start to fade.” – Mizu Sahara
“Joy is portable, bring it with you.”
“The quietest poetry can be an explosion of joy.”
“You, O God, make the dawn and the sunset shout for joy.” – Psalm 66:8b
“Gratitude invokes soul. Soul imbues joy. Joy sustains.” – LeAura Alderson
“Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“You have made known to me the paths of life you will fill me with joy in your presence.” – Acts 2:28
“When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive, to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.” – Marcus Aurelius
“Shared joy is double joy, shared sorrow is half a sorrow.”
“When you can’t find the sunshine, be the sunshine.”
“Compassion has nothing to do with achievement at all. It is spacious and very generous. When a person develops real compassion, he is uncertain whether he is being generous to others to himself because compassion is environmental generosity, without direction, without “for me” and without “for them”. It is filled with joy, spontaneously existing joy, constant joy in the sense of trust, in the sense that joy contains tremendous wealth, richness.” – Chogyam Trungpa
“When anxiety was great within me, your consolation brought me joy.” – Psalm 94:19
“As you breath in feel the joy of living, as you breathe out feel the joy of sharing.” – Debasish Mridha
“Expectation has brought me disappointment. Disappointment has brought me wisdom. Acceptance, gratitude and appreciation have brought me joy and fulfillment.” – Rahseed Ogunlaru
“I trust all joy.” – Theodore Roethke
“Be a fountain of love and joy so that everyone can see it, feel it and enjoy it.” – Debasish Mridha
“May your walls know joy, may every room hold laughter and every window open to great possibility.” – Mary Anne Radmacher-Hershey
“A sense of humor is needed armor. Joy in one’s heart and some laughter on one’s lips is a sign that the person, down deep, has a pretty good grasp on life.” – Hugh Sidney
“Understanding our fellow human beings becomes fruitful only when it is sustained by sympathetic feelings in joy and sorrow.” – Albert Einstein
“You will show me the path of life. In your presence is fullness of joy. At your right hand are pleasures forevermore.” – Psalm 16:11
“There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.” – Henry Ford
“You will not find joy out of fear, therefore eliminate every component of fear in your life if joy is what you need.” – Gift Gugu Mona
“Joy blooms where minds and hearts are open.” – Jonathan Lockwood Huie
“People with joyful hearts are enthusiastic, inspired, creative, innovative, responsible, and excited. In short, they are the type of person you want working with you or for you.” – Amanda Gore
“The death of joy is the real death.” – Marty Rubin
“And maybe that was how it was supposed to be. Joy and sadness were part of the package. The trick perhaps, was to let yourself feel all of it, but to hold onto the joy just a little more tightly.” – Kristin Hannah
“Know that joy is rarer, more difficult , and more beautiful than sadness. ONce you make this all important discovery, you must embrace joy as a moral obligation.” -Andre Gide
“You will find joy, love, and hope are the strongest, most elevating emotions in our universe. Discover for yourself how they can anchor the spirit, open your heart and bring to you, endless possibilities.” – Andrew Pacholyk
“Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling it’s purpose.” – Chareles Du Bos
“Where our work is, let our joy be.” – Terullian
“I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. FOr unto you is born this day in the city of David a savior which is Christ the Lord.” – Luke 2:10 & 11
“Don’t ever discount the wonder of your tears. They can be healing waters and a stream of joy. Sometimes they are the best words hearts can speak.” – Paul Young
“How do you say ‘thank you’ for sunshine or health for clear days or gentle rains? For happiness, joy or love? You say it by sharing what you have. You say it by making the world a better place in which to live.” – Thomas D. Willhite
“When you are joyful, when you say yes to live and have fun and project positivity all around you, you become a sun in the center of every constellation and people want to be near you.” – Shannon L. Alder
“A journal, is a book that shall contain a record of all you joy, your ecstasy, what you are grateful for.” – Henry David Thoureau
“The good life doesn’t knock on the door, joy is a job.” – Lionel Shriver
“Weeping may endure for a night but joy cometh in the morning.” – Psalm 30:5
“If tears of love, joy and bliss have not washed your cheeks, you are yet to taste life.”
“The greatest poverty is to live a joyless life.” – Marty Rubin
“Stress is only a joy stealer.” – Anna Voskamp
“If we can just let go and trust that things will work out the way they’re supposed to, without trying to control the outcome, then we can begin to enjoy the moment more fully. The joy of the freedom it brings, becomes more pleasurable to the experience itself.” – Godlie Hawn
“Joy is an outward sign of inward faith in the promises of God.” – Tommy Newberry
“I find joy in every day, not because life is always good, but because God is.”
“Don’t allow people to steal your joy, when you lose your joy, you lose your strength.”
“Suffering teaches joy.” – Sonia Rumzi
“Cleanse yourself with laughter and with tears. Let tears take out all the agony that is hidden inside you and let laughter ignite your contagious joy. ‘
“Choose joy, no matter how small.”
“Joy is a choice, but it isn’t an easy choice.” – Johnathan Lockwood
“No one knows what you are going through but you. People will judge you, talk about you, point fingers, blame you, etc. Do what is in your heart. Walk your own path. Be your own person. Their opinion of you is just their opinion. Ask yourself ‘Does it really matter what they think?’ Never let anyone steal your joy.”
“Meditation is the music of the mind that lets every cell fall asleep with refreshing joy.” – Debasish Mridha
“I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and say that life was service. I aced and behold, service was joy.” – Tagore
“Laughter is your soul dancing.”
“Sometimes in life we become focused on the finish line that we fail to find joy in the journey.” – Dieter F. Uchtdorf
“Joy is the realist reality, the fullest life, and joy is always given, never grasped. God gives gifts and I give thanks and I unwrap the gift given, joy.” – Ann Voskamp
“You are the guest of joy, you cannot impose yourself.” – Jean Klein
“IF you are seeking, seek us with joy. For we live in the kingdom of joy. Do not give your heart to anything else, but to the love of those who are clear joy. Do not stray into the neighborhood of despair. For there are hopes, they are real, they exist. Do not go int the direction of darkness, I tell you, suns exist.” – Rumi
“Discovering the beauty and joy of faith is a path that ever new generation must take on it’s own, for all that we have that is most of our own and most intimate is staked on faith, our heart, our mind, our freedom in a deeply personal relationship with the Lord at work within us.” – Pope Benedict XVI
“There is no better wealth than a healthy body and no better joy than the joy of the heart.”
“Sometimes you have to let go of the pictures of what you thought life would be like and learn to find joy in the story you are actually living.” – Rachel Marie Martin
“When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only what which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful, look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.” – Kahlil Gibran
“May your new bundle of joy bring happiness into your life and fill a void in your heart. Take pride in loving and raising your little miracle. I know you will be the best parent you can possibly be.”
“It is the length of the journey that ripens the joy of the outcome.” – Craig D. Lounsbrough
“Nurture your mind with positive thoughts, kindness, empathy, compassion, peace, love, joy, humility, generosity, etc. The more you feed your mind with positive thoughts, the more you can attract great things into your life.” – Roy T. Bennett
“The only joy in the world is to begin.” – Ceasre Pavese
“When you feel someone else’s pain and joy as powerfully as if it were your own, then you know you really loved them.” – Ann Brashares
“Remember that your natural state is joy.” – Wayne Dyer
“There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.” – Henri Bergson
“If I can see pain in your eyes, then share with me your tears. If I can see joy in your eyes, then share with me your smile. ” –
“I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river.” – Zhuangzi
“Joy is a marvelous increasing of what exists, a pure addition out of nothingness.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
“Find joy in your life and bring joy to others.”
“Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.” – Dr. Suess
“Without pain, how could we know joy? This is an old argument in the field of thinking about suffering and it’s stupidity and lack of sophistication could be plumbed for centuries but suffice it to say that the existence of broccoli doesn not, in any way, affect the taste of chocolate.” – John Green
“I have drunken deep of joy, and I will taste no other wine tonight.” – Percy Bysshe Shelley
“Joy doesn’t ever leave, you know. It’s always with you. And no one day you’ll find it again.” – Louise Penny
“To know intense joy without a strong bodily frame, one must have an enthusiastic soul.” – George Eliot
“Restlessness and impatience change nothing except our peace and joy. Peace does not dwell in outward things, but in the heart prepared to wait trustfully and quietly on Him who has all things safely in His hands.” – Elisabeth Elliot
“The root of joy is gratefulness. It is not joy that makes us grateful, it is gratitude that makes us joyful. – Brother David Steindl-Rast
“The joy of life comes form our encounters with new experiences and hence, there is not greater joy than to have a endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.” – Jon Krakauer
“Allow God to be your source of joy. When you do that, you will have joy in the midst of sorrow.” – Gift Gugu Mona
“He was mastered by the sheer surging of life, the tidal wave of being, the perfect joy of each separate muscle, joint and sinew in that it was everything that was not death, that it was aglow and rampant, expressing itself in movement, flying exultantly under the stars.” – Jack London
“There are moments when I wish I could roll back the clock and take all the sadness away, but I have the feeling that if I did, the joy would be gone as well.” – Nicholas Sparks
“Joy not shared is joy wasted.” – Abhijit Naskar
“Vulnerability is the birthplace of love, belonging, joy, courage, empathy and creativity. It is the source of hope, empathy, accountability, and authenticity. If we want grater clarity in our purpose, or deeper and more meaningful spiritual lives, vulnerability is the path.” – Brene Brown
“If we never experience the dark chill of winter, it is very unlikely that we will every cherish the warmth of a bright summer’s day. Nothing stimulates our appetite for the simple joys of life more than the starvation caused by sadness or desperation. In order to complete our amazing life journey successfully, it is vital that we turn each and every dark tear into a pearl of wisdom, and find the blessing in every curse.” – Anthon St. Maarten
“Joy is a well made object, equalled only by the joy of making it.” – Bill Reid
“To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.” – Pearl S. Buck
“We cannot forget joy. No matter how deep our rage and pain.” – Nalini Singh
“We cry from pain, from loss and from loneliness, but mostly we cry because we still have hope, and because we can still find joy even on the darkest and coldest of winter nights.” – Courtney M. Privett
“Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.” – Leo Tolstoy
“Joy in sorrow is the grace of the spirit.” – Lailah Gifty Akita
“I don’t find joy in cruelty, only love fills my heart with joy.” – Debasish Mridha
“After the rain, the sun will reappear. There is life. After the pain, the joy will still be here.” – Walt Disney Company
“Sometimes a moment of survival is about navigating between rage and joy.” – Malebo Sephodi
“There are souls in this world who have the gift of finding joy everywhere, and leaving it behind them when they go.” – Fredrick William Faber
“Give me a moment, because I like to cry for joy. It’s so delicious, John dear, to cry for joy.” – Charles Dickens
“Joy is strength.” – Mother Theresa
“There are two types of seeds in the mind, those what create anger, fear, frustration, jealousy, hatred and those that create love, compassion, equanimity and joy. Spirituality is germination and sprouting of the second group and transforming the first group.” – Amit Ray
“Love the animals. God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled.” – Fyodor Dostoyevsk
“Neither grief nor pride had so much truth in them as did joy, the joy that trembled in the cold wind between sky and sea, bright and brief as fire.” – Ursula K. Le Guin
“The glory of science is, that it is freeing the soul, breaking the mental manacles, getting the brain out of bondage, giving courage to thought, filling the world with mercy, justice and joy.” – Robert G. INgersoll
“Fear of joy is the darkest of captivities.” – Phil Kaye
“There is joy in self-forgetfulness. So I try to make the light in others eyes my sun, the music in others, ears my symphony, the smile on others lips, my happiness.” – Hellen Keller
“I do not care about happiness simply because I believe that joy is something worth fighting for.” – Criss Jami
“Like a stroke victim retraining new parts of the brain to grasp lost skills, I have taught myself joy, over and over again.” – Barbara Kingsolver
“An infinite question is often destroyed by finite answers. To define everything is to annihilate much that gives us laughter and joy.” – Madeleine L’Engle
“There’s light and joy, but there’s also darkness all around and we can be lost in it.” – David Almond
“It is only when the mind is free from the old that it meets everything anew, and in that there is joy.” – Krishnamurti
“The greatest joys in life are found not only in what we do and feel, but also in our quiet hopes and labors for others.” – Bryant McGill
“Because when you’re laughing, there is no other emotion in that moment except for joy.” – Brian Schimmel
“May all your joys be pure joys, and all your pain champagne.” – Mrs. Graham
“Don’t put off till tomorrow what can be enjoyed today.” – Josh Billings
“Beautiful places are not just a joy for the moment, while you’re there. They will become homes for you, spaces of solace and comfort, where you can close your eyes and go to. Nothing you experience will ever go away. It belongs to you new. Just feel. Don’t be afraid to feel.” – Charlotte Eriksson
“Perhaps in nearly every joy, as certainly in every pleasure, cruelty has its place.” – Oscar Wilde
“We all struggle alone through ten thousand joys and then thousand sorrows of our lives.” – Eilzabeth Kim
“Your pain is a school unto itself, and your joy a lovely temple.” – Aberjhani
“Joy is thankfulness, and when we are joyful, that is the best expression of thanks we can offer the Lord, who delivers us from sorrow and sin.” – Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica
“We must never expected discretion in first love, it is accompanied by such excessive joy that unless joy is allowed to overflow, it will choke you.” – Alexandre Dumas
“The most profound joy has more of gravity than of gaiety in it.” – Michel de Montaigne
“The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.” – Pearl Bailey
“There is nothing dreary or doubtful about the life. It is meant to be continually joyful. We are called to a settled happiness in the Lord whose joy is our strength” – Amy Carmichael
“The highest prize that we can receive for creative work is the joy of being creative. Creative effort spend for any other reason than the joy of being in the light filled space, love, god, whatever we want to call it, is lacking in integrity.” – Marianne Williamson
“When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.” – Stanislaw J. Lec
“Live for nothing but the joy of being alive.” – Marty Rubin
“Joy has a spring deep down inside. And the spring never runs dry, no matter what happens.” – Samuel Gordon
“Where humanity sowed faith, hope and unity, joy’s garden blossomed.” – Aberjhani
“Life is magical for those whose hearts are loving, minds are full with joy, and eyes that are dancing with beauty.” – Debasish Mridha
“From the cradle to the grave, joy and pain is the fertilizer for wisdom.” – T.F. Hodge
‘Seek joyfulness when you can, for seeking joy leads to an auspicious atmosphere.” – Johnathan D. Spence
“Nothing else in all life is such a maker of joy and cheer as the privilege of doing good.” – J.R. Miller
“Joy’s impregnate, sorrows bring forth.” – William Blake
“Deriving truth from joy may be far more easier than generating joy from the truth.” – Toba Beta
“When our emotional health is in a bad state, so is our level of self-estemm. We have to slow down and deal with what is troubling us, so that we can enjoy the simple joy of being happy and at peace with ourselves.” – Jess C. Scott
“Joy weathers any storm, happiness rides the waves.” – Todd Stocker
“Many were the steps taken in doubt, that saw their shapeless ends in no time. Those who travel in faith today will triumph in joy tomorrow. Let faith lead the way.” – Israelmore Ayivor
“Work may be your dominant thought, and joy and afterthought. Buy joy is your true purpose, and work the afterthought.” – Alan Cohen
“So it is said, for him who understands heavenly joy, life is the working of Heaven. Death is the transformation of things. In stillness, he and the yin share a single virtue, in motion, he and the yang share a single flow.” – Shuangzi
“But happiness is to joy as an electric bulb is to the sun. Happiness always has an object, you’re happy because of something, it’s a condition whose existence depends on external things. Joy, on the other hand, has no object. It seizes you for no apparent reason. It’s like the sun, its burning is fueled by it’s own heart.” – Susanna Tamaro
“Happiness and joy are not the same. For what does the fervent craving for joy mean? It does not mean that we wish at any cost to experience the psychic state of being joyful. We want to have reason for joy, for an unceasing joy that fills us utterly, sweeps all before it, exceeds all measure.” – Josef Pieper
“Joy deserves always more.” – Linda McCarriston
“Deep contended joy comes from a place of complete security and confidence in God, even in the midst of trial.” – Swindoll Charles. R.
“The substance mentality of a person is a prison in which his personal joy is detained. If you want to live in joy, you don’t live for yourself alone. Live for others too!” -Israelmore Ayivor
“Joy is based on the spiritual knowledge that, while the world in which we live is shrouded in darkness, God has overcome the world.” – Henri Nouwen
“The positive vibrations of unregulated joy, peace, happiness and tranquility is freedom.” – T.F. Hodge
“Look for joy. That’s God’s echo, and his footprint. Happiness, happiness and wittiness and cleverness do not count for much when the darkness falls. Joy is tougher.” – Sean Stewart
“May we all soon go about as our real selves and take joy in it, saying yes, yes, to whatever we are.” – Carol Emshwiller
“True freedom, which is full joy, is the complete recognition of law and adaption to it. Bondage comes from ignorance of law or opposition to it.” – John A. Widtsoe
“Travel is movement, and movement is joy.” – Marty Rubin
“Suffering is a given, but so is joy.” – Richie Norton
“Joy knows itself. As children we didn’t even know the word joy, we were joy.” – Francis Lucille
“You were given your sensuality for the joy you may give in return.’ – Lebo Grand
“Every morning the sun rises with rays of beauty and warmth to enlighten our hearts and minds with lights over love and joy.” – Debasish Mridha
“When I am gone, let my love touch you like a southern breeze and make your mind glitter with joy. – Debasish Mridha
“You are born to love, care and share without expectation, and to feel the pure joy of life.” – Debasish Mridha
“Your joy is your joy.” – Lailah Gifty Akita
“For your joy constantly reflected in my joy.” – Emmanuelle Soni-Dessaigne
“This is the best time to give away love and to create flow of joy.” – Debasish Mridha
“The joy in sorrow is the grace to recover from the shock.” – Lailah Gifty Akita
“Strawberries always fill my heart with joy.” – Anthony T. Hincks
“Questions of no concern clutter our minds and crowd out all love and joy.” – Marty Rubin
“My heart dances with joy and sings with love whenever I remember my mothers.” – Debasish Mridha
“Observe your own emotional states and you will see that the moments of gret joy, great ecstasy, are unpremeditated, they happen mysteriously, darkly, unknowingly.” – Jiddu Krishnamurti
“I guess when you smile, it’s just joy coming out of you.” – Tom Hiddleston
“I may not be able to change the whole world, but with my love, I will bloom in your gardens of flowers and fill your world with joy.” – Debasish Mridha
“A wild joy follows when you realize you’ve been caught and are now free, when you fling open the prison door, walk outside, and gulp air in the first time in hours or days or weeks.” – Geneen Roth
“In the fancy spectacle of life, aspire to find a joy that does not need an audience.” – Joyce Rachelle
“An emotional overcoming, disconcertingly distant from happiness, more like joy, if joy is the recognition of an almost intolerable beauty It’s not a very civilized emotion.” – Zadie Smith
“Despair not! Refuse to be gloomy or negative. Don’t allow challenges and situations to rob your joy. Do not allow anything to take your peace away.” – Patricia Dsouza
“A euphoric experience, the rapturous joys of life, is available to a sincere person whom perceives truth, statements that fit properly into a system taken as a whole.” – Kilroy J. Oldster
“Dissatisfaction is like a cancer of the spirit. It eats away at every possibility of love and joy.” – Marty Rubin
“The more stressful the job, the more intentional I’ve always been about helping my team members find joy in our work. Laughter is the outward manifestation of joy, so I believe if I’m doing it right, and helping people connect to the meaning and joy in their work, there will be laughter in the workplace. Laughter is a good indication that people aren’t taking themselves too seriously.” – James Comey
“All peace, joy, and love that we week outside of ourselves are right within us. – Dr. Snezhana Djambazova
“When someone discovers a mystery about the creations, Mothers Nature, the world or the universe, then God smiles in joy.” – Md. Ziaul Haque
“Don’t feel guilty, do what gives you joy.” – Tapan Ghosh
“Joy is found in what we experience (verb), not what we have or achieve (noun).” – Melissa Heisler
“Joy is like a jewel.” – Lailah Gifty Akita
“So, whether the world is going to pieces or not, whether you are on the side of the angels of the devil himself, take life for what it is, have fun, spread joy and confusion.” – Henry Miller
“Joy ins the manifestation of the Creator’s power, illuminating a world in darkness.” – Agni Yoga Society
“Adults wear themselves out pointlessly searching for a joy they never find. But in children, it bursts out of every pore.” – Antonio Iturbe
“After all, why bring somebody pain when it’s so easy to bring joy instead?” – Jordi Lafebre
“When you give yourself to someone, you get a lifetime of joy in return.” – Tapan Ghosh
“Wherever you go in life, go with love in your heart, hope in your soul and joy in your mind. For love, hope and joy will take you far.” – Carol CC Miller
“Books. Just the words bring me joy.” – C. Hinkle
“My dad showed me that it’s my responsibility to provide my own joy, and that every moment is a chance to find lightness.” – Whitney Cummings
“It’s not about getting by. It’s about the stack of tiny little moments of joy and love that add up to a lifetime that’s been worthwhile. You can’t measure them, you can only capture them, like snapshots in your mind.” – C. Robert Cargill
“The heart can’t hold joy the same time as sorrow. Embrace the joy.” – Lynda Cheldelin Fell
“I wish you joy. To spend life’s fleeting days mid joy that never meets an evil hour is to be blessed beyond compare.” – Euripides
“Sometimes you’ve got to do things you dislike to get a life you’ll love to have. Sometimes you have to sacrifice joy and comfort in the present to get greater joy and comfort in the future.” – Jeanette Coron
‘There exists joy in sorrow.” – Lailah Gifty Akita
“Happiness is a feeling/emotion, but joy is a state of being. One does not depend on your external circumstance, the other does.” – Jason White
“Both joy and sorrow serve as gauges for love, our love for others, and their love for us.” – Rob Kozak
“Once we learn to stably regulate our attention, we can be fully present in our joy, compassion, and love. In turn, we can deny oxygen to our anger, anxiety, and self-cherishing. This is the first step towards lasting inner tranquility.” – Kyle Parton
“The restoration of joy is a daily matter.” – Gary Rohrmayer
“Your smiles fill my heart with joy. Smiles are the flowers of life.” -Debasish Mridha
“The modern world trains one to fight. The classroom is the world, the teachers are everyone, the training rules are kindness, compassion, joy and giving. – Bhiksus Heng Sure
“Understanding your life purpose is vital to joy and dynamic participation in the world.” – Laurie Buchanan
“I wish for you all the joy this darkened world can employ.” – Marissa Meyer
“When you start believing that you are too old to enjoy something, you lose so much joy in your life.” – Avina Celestt
“There may be human joy in doing good with definite purpose but they who do good expecting nothing in return know a joy that is divine.” – Maurice Maeterlinck
“Real joy is never influenced.” – Haresh Sippy

401 Quotes About Joy (Joy Quotes)

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