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