Joy Quotes

You cannot impose a culture from the top--it must come from under. It grows out of the soil, out of the people, out of their daily life and work. It is a spontaneous expression of their joy of life, of their joy in work, and if this does not exist, the culture will not exist. Joy is a spiritual quality, an impalpable quality: that too cannot be forced. It must be an inevitable state of mind, born of the elementary processes of life, a by-product of natural human growth.

~ Herbert Read

We are fragile creatures, and it is from this weakness, not despite it, that we discover the possibility of true joy.

~ Desmond Tutu

Be the kind of person who is a joy to be around. Caring for and loving others brings out the best in you and keeps your heart open to the unspoken and deeply buried needs of others.

~ Farshad Asl

Awe ignites joy because it makes us bend the knee.

~ Ann Voskamp

Im not looking for perfection, just perfect flaws.

~ Kierra C.t. Banks

It is as if joy were the default setting of human emotion, not the furtive, fugitive glimpses it becomes in lives compromised by necessity, familiarity, ‘maturity,’ suffering. You must become as little children, Jesus said, a statement that is often used to justify anti-intellectualism and the renunciation of reason, but which I take actually to mean that we must recover this sense of wonder, this excess of spirit brimming out of the body.

~ Christian Wiman

There are people out there waiting for you. Indeed, you are the only one who can bring joy in the heart of people. Yes, sometimes only with one smile.

~ Dariush Youkhaneh

...and gentle happy and peaceful, tasting the mean goodness of their living like the last of their suppers in their mouths.

~ James Agee

The young man murmured in his sleep and said, “Dear Sparrow,” and Sparrow felt, for the first time, how the purest joy could be a heaviness.

~ Madeleine Thien

True joy, as it turns out, comes only to those who have devoted their lives to something greater than personal happiness.

~ John Ortberg

In the greatest sorrow, we shall find the grace of joy.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

What is most decisive is God's Joy Project is not that we fully grasp it, but that our sovereign God fully grasps us.

~ Tony Reinke

Think of joy! Think of realities! Realities bring real joy and inner peace even in discomfort!

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

No, it was not regret which made Anne's heart beat in spite of herself, and brought the colour into her cheeks when she thought of Captain Wentworth unshackled and free. She had some feelings which she was ashamed to investigate. They were too much like joy, senseless joy!

~ Jane Austen

Discovering more joy does not, save us from th inevitability of hardship and heartbreak. In fact, we may cry more easily, but we will laugh more easily too. Perhaps we are just more alive. Yet as we discover more joy, we can face suffering in a way that ennobles rather than embitters. We have hardship without becoming hard. We have heartbreaks without being broken.

~ Desmond Tutu

There goes a lot of pain in raising children. But the pain is equally or overtly compensated by the joy of parenthood.

~ Girdhar Joshi

Joy comes when you turn it over to God to deal with. This is when you will feel the true release from it's weight.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Happiness is an undercurrent of sensitivity and leads a surreptitious life: it is an internal eventuality. We can feel it in stillness and it stands the test of time. Joy is an eruption of cheerful moments and we want to express it: it is an external eventuality. We might shout it out, as it conveys a dynamic of fleeting instants. Joy gives voice to “en-joy-ment”. (The grass was greener over there)

~ Erik Pevernagie

The number one joy indicator, the one thing that will predict whether someone feels joy in their life or not, is the practice of gratitude.

~ John O'leary

Joy is the net of love by which we can capture souls. God loves the person who gives with joy. Whoever gives with joy gives more. The best way to show our gratitude to God and to people is to accept with joy.

~ Mother Teresa

The everlasting God has in His wisdom foreseen from eternity the cross that He now presents to you as a gift from His inmost heart. This cross He now sends you He has considered with His all-knowing eyes, understood with His divine mind, tested with His wise justice, warmed with loving arms and weighed with His own hands to see that it be not one inch too large and not one ounce too heavy for you. He has blessed it with His holy Name, anointed it with His consolation, taken one last glance at you and your courage, and then sent it to you from heaven, a special greeting from God to you, an alms of the all-merciful love of God.

~ St. Francis De Sales

I realized during some of the darkest moments of my life, that the most beautiful and precious happiness in the world is the Joy of Giving.

~ Kiran Shaikh

You bless my heart the only way you can bless the world as well ..... Just by existing you make me the happiest woman alive.

~ Nani Rsv

The things that people were the most grateful for were the ordinary things in life. The sound of your spouse’s laugh, the smell of morning coffee, the echo of children playing in the yard. The little things. In waiting for the big moments—the vacations, the retirements, the birthdays—we risk missing the experiences of life most worthy of celebrating.

~ John O'leary

HAPPINESS is based on externals; it fluctuates up and down every day. JOY, on the other hand, is internal; it can be cultivated and nurtured. We can be joyful even in the midst of a chaotic, unpredictable world.

~ Laurie Buchanan

Abundant living is realizing that life is a privilege whether it’s adhering to our scripts or not.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

How beautiful it is to feel that what you cannot describe?

~ Saim .A. Cheeda

The joy is in the journey.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Empowering beliefs are ideas that launch us forward and help us to become the person we want to be. Empowering beliefs are freeing, encouraging, and inclusive; they nurture and uplift. When we find ourselves harboring a limiting belief, we need to replace it with one that cultivates joy.

~ Laurie Buchanan Phd

We have a choice. We can be jaded by what we’ve lost, or joyous over what that thing had accomplished while we had it.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

When you are grateful,' Brother Steindl-Rast explained, 'you are not fearful, and when you are not fearful, you are not violent. When you are grateful, you act out of a sense of enough and not out of a sense of scarcity, and you are willing to share. If you are grateful, you are enjoying the differences between people and respectful to all people. The grateful world is a world of joyful people. Grateful people are joyful people. A grateful world is a happy world.

~ Douglas Carlton Abrams

The more time you spend thinking about yourself, the more suffering you will experience.

~ Dalai Lama Xiv

I laugh at him, and behind us, several Inquisitors stir in surprise at the sound. Only Magiano can coax joy out of me so easily.

~ Marie Lu

... I hadn't been paying attention to things like the sunrise, but that old sun had been coming up anyway. It didn't really care how I felt, it was going to rise and set regardless of whether I noticed it, and if I was going to enjoy it, that was up to me.

~ Jeanette Walls

An enlightened person strives to live a meaningful life, defined by their personal humility joy, passion, and profound reverence for life.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

If you want to discover your true purpose for existing, all you have to do is look deeply into the things that bring you joy.

~ Toni Sorenson

I suppose that I have not many months to live: but of course I know nothing about it. I may add that I am enjoying existence as much as ever, and regret nothing.

~ Henry David Thoreau

Our minds are so cluttered with endless to-do lists that there's no room for us to experience the joy in being alive today.

~ Craig Groeschel

To love life is to love God.

~ Leo Tolstoy

Her eyes are shining; she’s excited now, ready to go. For a moment, standing in the fuzzy haze of sunlight still penetrating the blinds, she appears to be glowing, as though lit up by some internal flame. And now I know why they invented words for love, why they had to: It’s the only thing that can come close to describing what I feel in that moment, the baffling mixture of pain and pleasure and fear and joy, all running sharply through me at once.

~ Lauren Oliver