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