Joy Quotes Quotes

The best couples share the load, divide the grief, and add to the peace, thereby multiplying joy.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

If all you have is money, you are among the poorest people in the world.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

...the sweetness of grace and freedom comes hand in hand with the uncomfortable, bitter-rawness of honest emotions and grief.

~ Natalie Brenner

If you want to lead a pleasant life, be good to yourself; if you want to lead a happy life, be good to others; and if you want to lead an exceptional life, be good to everyone.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

If you look to money for happiness, you will be disappointed; to power, you will be disillusioned; to honor, you will be dissatisfied; to others, you will be disenchanted; but if you look to God, you will be fulfilled.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

You only become truly rich the day you possess something that money cannot buy.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Life wasn't meant to be a trial, it was intended to be a wondrous joy.

~ Steven Redhead

Worry makes you weaker, regret makes you sadder, hate makes you angrier, but hope makes you stronger, and love makes you happier.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

No one can steal your happiness unless you give them the key to your heart’s safe.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

If your greatest wish is to be happy, you are clever; if it is to make others happy, you are virtuous; but if it is to make yourself and others happy, you are wise.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

If there is wisdom in your mind, prove it; joy in your heart, share it; love in your soul, show it; good in your life, impart it.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Be merry, because it confuses your enemies; happy, because it annoys them; cheerful, because it angers them; and joyful, because it kills them.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Your clock cannot buy you more time, your bed cannot get you more sleep, your titles cannot acquire you more influence, your fame cannot gain you more honor, and your money cannot earn you more happiness.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

When perplexed, God appears to you in the form of wisdom; when troubled, in the form of peace; when sad, in the form of joy; when heartbroken, in the form of love.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

If you have food on your table, clothes on your back, a roof on your head, and a dream in your heart, you have everything you need in life.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

True riches belong to those who shun false ones.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

If you have a house but no home, you are homeless; knowledge but no wisdom, you are imprudent; acquaintances but no friends, you are lonely; money but no happiness, you are poor; and life but no joy, you are lifeless.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

The less you want, the happier you are; the happier you are, the less you want.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

If you have nothing but joy in this life, you are still rich.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

If you want to double your happiness, pour it into someone else.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

The bad chapters of your life lead to the good ones if you keep turning the pages.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

If they ask you how rich you are, tell them to look inside your heart.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

The happiest people in the world are those who give happiness to others.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Yesterday, I was clever, I wanted to be rich. Today, I am wise, I want to be happy.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Rainbows are birthed in storms, not in sunshine.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Count your smiles, not your frowns.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Dancing in the rain is better than despairing in the storm.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Present tears water the gardens of future blessings.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

I already know sorrow. Today I choose joy.

~ Lynda Cheldelin Fell

It is great joy to love and be loved.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Pebbles that bring you joy are better than diamonds that bring you sorrow.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Daisies that bring you joy are better than roses that bring you sorrow.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Love that brings you sorrow is better than hate that brings you joy.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

You learn more from your tears than your smiles.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

You have the world at your feet if you have wisdom in your mind.You have the world in your hands if you have joy in your heart.You have the world in your bosom if you have love in your soul.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

The hidden hand of contentment is in the rewards of the gratified. The hidden hand of bliss is in the rewards of the tranquil. The hidden hand of happiness is in the rewards of the elated. The hidden hand of joy is in the rewards of the jubilant.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

The joy of success lies in the process or journey -- not so much on the destination, because one destination opens the door for another. It's like the beauty of watching a blossoming flower ... a bird taking flight for the first time or a child taking the first step ... Enjoy your process today as I am.

~ Val Uchendu

Today's tears sweep the road to tomorrow's blessings.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Your greatest highs come from overcoming your greatest lows.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Trust in the Lord brings much hope, joy and peace.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita