163 quotes
“I want to make things that are fun to look at”
— Alexander Calder
“The worship most acceptable to God comes from a thankful and cheerful heart.”
— Plutarch
“Whatever hour God has blessed you with, take it with grateful hand, nor postpone your joys from year to year.”
— Horace
“A merry heart doeth good like a medicine, but a broken spirit drieth the bones.”
— King Solomon
“The earth laughs in flowers.”
— Emerson
“The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”
— Henry Miller
“The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.”
— Leonardo da Vinci
“The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.”
— Kahlil Gibran
“Find a place inside where there is joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.”
— Joseph Campbell
“If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if the simplest things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive.”
— Eleonora Duse
“Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.”
— Baltasar Gracián
“The best way to show my gratitude to God is to accept everything even my problems with joy.”
— Mother Teresa
“A day without laughter is a day wasted in creative spirit”
— Charlie Chaplin
“The earth laughs in flowers”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Happiness is the joy we feel striving after our potential.”
— Shawn Achor
“Lovers alone wear sunlight.”
— E.E. Cummings
“Your joy is your sorrow unmasked the deeper your sorrow carves into your being the more joy you can contain”
— Khalil Gibran
“The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it.”
— Omar Khayyam
“The deeper that sorrow carves into your being the more joy you can contain.”
“Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.”
— Thich Nhat Hanh
“No matter what nobody can take away the dances you have already had”
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
“Joy and sorrow are inseparable. Together they come and when one sits alone with you, remember that the other is asleep upon your bed.”
“Fearlessness is not only possible, it is the ultimate joy. When you touch nonfear, you are free.”
“What we learn with pleasure we never forget.”
— Alfred Mercier
“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
“Off with you! You're a happy fellow, for you'll give happiness and joy to many other people. There is nothing better or greater than that!”
— Ludwig van Beethoven
“Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the gods.”
— Plato
“Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy”
“I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
“A flower blossoms for its own joy.”
— Oscar Wilde
“If thou dost ill, the joy fades, not the pains; if well, the pain doth fade, the joy remains.”
— Benjamin Franklin
“Gratitude is riches and complaint is poverty. It is the quickest path to joy.”
— Doris Day
“Colors are the smiles of nature.”
— Leigh Hunt
“One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“The present moment is filled with joy and happiness and if you are attentive you will see it and wonder will arise”
“If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive.”
“He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.”
“Let my soul smile through my heart and my heart smile through my eyes, that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts.”
“The standard of success in life is not the things. It is not the money or the stuff. It is absolutely the amount of joy that you feel.”
— Esther Hicks
“Wherever you are, and whatever you do, be in love.”
— Rumi
“The fullness of joy is to behold God in everything”
— Julian of Norwich
“Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.”
— Thomas Aquinas
“A thing of beauty is a joy forever”
— John Keats
“The deeper sorrow carves into your being the more joy you can contain and faith holds the space between”
“The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.”
— Robert Louis Stevenson
“Creativity is intelligence having fun.”
— Albert Einstein
“Family friendship doubles our joy and divides our grief.”
— Francis Bacon
“Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.”
“Between your birth and your death, wander through this world in wonder.”
“Be joyful though you have considered all the facts.”
— Wendell Berry
“Comparison is the thief of joy.”
— Theodore Roosevelt
“Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.”
“The basis of your life is absolute freedom. The objective is joy and the result is expansion.”
“The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy.”
— Henry Ward Beecher
“I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold service was joy.”
“Life is meant to be fun and joyous and fulfilling. Creative work is how we make it so.”
— Jim Henson
“We need more kindness more compassion more joy more laughter in the world”
— Sheryl Sandberg
“The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding and wonder is the joy of not yet understanding”
“And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.”
“There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor”
— Charles Dickens
“All my life through, the new sights of nature made me rejoice like a child.”
— Marie Curie
“To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become in a special way the servant of the others.”
— Thomas Moore
“Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.”
— King David
“The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.”
“Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
“Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy and kindness”
“You are joy looking for a way to express.”
“The deeper that sorrow carves into your being the more joy you can contain”
“In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.”
“Your joy is your sorrow unmasked and faith teaches us to see the joy hidden within every sorrow”
“The deeper that sorrow carves into your being the more joy you can contain and wonder fills the space between”
“Friendship doubles joys and halves griefs”
“A joyful heart is the normal result of a heart burning with love.”
“Let your joy be in your journey not in some distant goal”
— Tim Cook
“To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk — these are some of the rewards of the simple life.”
— John Burroughs
“Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor's nose.”
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“Even in the midst of a very difficult time we can find moments of joy through the practice of faith”
— Jack Kornfield
“Joy in looking and comprehending is natures most beautiful gift.”
— Konrad Lorenz
“Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile and sometimes your compassion is the source of your joy”
“Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.”
— Karl Barth
“The present moment is filled with joy and happiness if you are attentive”
“All our sweetest hours fly fastest.”
— Virgil
“The body heals with play, the mind heals with laughter, and the spirit heals with joy.”
— Unknown
“There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.”
“A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.”
“Joy does not simply happen to us we have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day through faith”
— Henri Nouwen
“The standard of success in life is not the things it is not the money or the stuff it is absolutely the amount of joy you feel”
“Family life is too important to be taken seriously all the time. It must also have joy and laughter.”
— Norman Vincent Peale
“A thing of beauty is a joy forever.”
“The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it, therefore, while it lasts, and not spend it to no purpose.”
“A joy that is shared is a joy made double.”
“You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might pray also in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.”
“When you realize how perfect everything is, you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky.”
— Gautama Buddha
“To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.”
— David Viscott
“A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy can live”
— Bertrand Russell
“The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.”
— Hada Bejar
“Joy comes to us in moments. We must not be afraid to live in these moments.”
— Brene Brown
“You have as much laughter as you have faith.”
— Martin Luther
“Choose a job you love and you will never have to work a day in your life”
— Confucius
“Discovering more joy does not save us from the inevitability of hardship and heartbreak. In fact, we may cry more easily, but we will laugh more easily too.”
— Desmond Tutu
“Nothing is worth more than laughter. It is strength to laugh and to abandon oneself, to be light.”
— Frida Kahlo
“One joy scatters a hundred griefs.”
“The deeper that sorrow carves into your being in family the more joy you can contain.”
“Joy comes to us in ordinary moments. We risk missing out when we get too busy chasing down the extraordinary.”
“If I cant dance, I dont want to be part of your revolution.”
— Emma Goldman
“A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.”
— Washington Irving
“The only joy in the world is to begin.”
— Cesare Pavese
“When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and brings joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.”
— Jean Shinoda Bolen
“When work is a pleasure, life is a joy. When work is a duty, life is slavery.”
— Maxim Gorky
“A day without laughter is a day wasted”
“It is in the nature of things that joy arises in a person free from remorse.”
— Buddha
“How beautiful a day can be when kindness touches it.”
— George Elliston
“Whoever is happy will make others happy too.”
— Anne Frank
“The root of joy is gratefulness it is not joy that makes us grateful it is gratitude that makes us joyful”
— David Steindl-Rast
“Joy is the infallible sign of the presence of God.”
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
“The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive you will see it.”
“The standard of success in life is not the things. It is not the money or the stuff. It is absolutely the amount of joy you feel.”
— Abraham Hicks
“Spring is nature's way of saying, 'Let's party!'”
— Robin Williams
“Life is meant to be fun and joyful and fulfilling”
“A thing of beauty is a joy for ever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.”
“I am satisfied. I see dance and laugh and sing.”
— Walt Whitman
“I slept and dreamt that life was joy I awoke and saw that life was service I acted and behold service was joy”
“Be joyful though you have considered all the facts and spread kindness where you go”
“All the joy the world contains comes through wishing happiness for others with compassion”
— Shantideva
“Joy is the infallible sign of the presence of God and faith is the perception that recognizes that joy”
“Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts inevitably bring about right results.”
— James Allen
“The most beautiful moments in life are moments when you are expressing your joy not when you are seeking it”
— Sadhguru
— Solomon
“I slept and dreamt that life was joy I awoke and saw that life was service I acted and behold service was joy and kindness was its name”
“A little magic can take you a long way in family life.”
— Roald Dahl
“The body heals with play the mind heals with laughter and the spirit heals with joy”
— Deepak Chopra
“What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be.”
— Ellen Burstyn
“Joy is not in things; it is in us.”
— Richard Wagner
“I slept and dreamt that life was joy then I awoke and saw that life was service through compassion”
“Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.”
— Marianne Williamson
— Chinese Proverb
“You can't build joy on a feeling of self-loathing.”
— Ram Dass
“The root of joy is gratefulness. It is not joy that makes us grateful it is gratitude that makes us joyful.”
“Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter.”
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