Joy Quotes

If someone is facing a difficult time, one of the kindest things you can do for him or her is to say, “I’m just going to love you through this.

~ Molly Friedenfeld

When we involve others in spontaneous acts of kindness, we go from being strangers to becoming a united team connected at the heart level.

~ Molly Friedenfeld

Having a vested interest in other souls unconditionally creates a ripple effect that produces miracles in the lives of those around us.

~ Molly Friedenfeld

A person can put up any kind of protective wall, but love and truth always find a way around it.

~ Molly Friedenfeld

A simple truth delivered in kindness may be the impetus that ignites a passionate fire in another’s soul and goes on to become the source of motivation for positive change.

~ Molly Friedenfeld

Love is the ultimate creator.

~ Molly Friedenfeld

Let us subdue the ravages of the baser-self, and aspire to the higher calling of exalting joy through compassion, for that is the one true purpose of humanity.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Success follows those who champion a cause greater than themselves.

~ George Alexiou

The news can be poison to your soul, don't let it kill your joy, be compassionate but not consumed. Be empathetic not enraged.

~ Rob Liano

The problem with churches of all sorts,” he continued, “is that so often they ignore the key teachings of the Sermon on the Mount, like the doctrine of love. So often we ask God to be on our side instead of asking that we be blessed enough to be on his. That said, the wheat and the tares must grow up together, and in the days of harvest they will be separated properly.

~ David Holdsworth

I was in love with everything- I wanted to look with love at the angry people so that their eyes would be forced to respond, and I wanted to bring gifts to the envious and tell them that I am worthless.

~ Egon Schiele

We hunger after the sweet nectar of happiness without understanding that it is harvested from the flowering field of good deeds.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Certainly I believe that God gave us life for happiness, not misery. Humanity, I am sure, will never be made lazy or indifferent by an excess of happiness. Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. Happiness should be a means of accomplishment, like health, not an end in itself.

~ Helen Keller

Kindness always leaves a timeless deposit on the heart.

~ Molly Friedenfeld

There is great power in our words, because theyare thoughts to which we have given additional energy by speaking them aloud so another person can know them.

~ Molly Friedenfeld

Speaking kind words starts a wave of love in motion that brings more love upon your shores.

~ Molly Friedenfeld

Spread LOVE and KINDNESS wherever you go. Then you can be sure you are never far from it!

~ Molly Friedenfeld

Your joy can be the impetus that motivates others to find their way to joy.

~ Molly Friedenfeld

The relationship you take for granted is the one that needs the greatest work.

~ George Alexiou

Happiness has no time limits or conditions, the only requirement is to give it away.

~ George Alexiou

Kindness is a currency that can cover a multitude of interpersonal debts.

~ George Alexiou

You never know the hurt others endure in this world behind the closed windows of their life, or the joy a simple act of kindness can bring.

~ Jennifer Skiff

Summer is a period of luxurious growth. To be in harmony with the atmosphere of summer, awaken early in the morning and reach to the sun for nourishment to flourish as the gardens do. Work, play, travel, be joyful, and grow into selfless service. The bounty of the outside world enters and enlivens us.

~ Paul Pitchford

Annie giggled again. She couldn’t seem to stop herself. And when she did, the most incredible thing happened. Alex’s grin vanished, and after gazing down at her for what seemed to her several endless seconds, he got tears in his eyes. “Thank you,” he said. Only that, just a simple “thank you.” But to Annie, those were the two most wonderful words she’d ever seen spoken, and they meant more to her than a thousand others might have. With them, he told her a wealth of things, namely that he had meant everything he’d said to her in the attic, that he not only wouldn’t punish her for making noise, but that he wanted her to.

~ Catherine Anderson

Love in action puts a mind at ease. It creates wonders and good feelings. Such is the magic word that when you allow it to flow freely, it awakens every human heart, and uplifts every human spirit.

~ Rita Barnes

Growth is achieved when truth is revealed.

~ Molly Friedenfeld

When we have developed a trust in both our inner man and woman and they can nourish, support, communicate and cooperate with each other, a love begins to flow between them.

~ Swami Dhyan Giten

There is a wide world out there, full of pain, but filled with joy as well. The former keeps you on the path of growth and the latter makes the journey tolerable.

~ R.a. Salvatore

Possessions and positions may promote our happiness but cannot create it. Happiness is a state created by self through the realization of how the self is important to the creator.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

When you wake up each morning with a burning passion to accomplish a goal, you've already won the day.

~ George Alexiou

Unzip your life right now, air out the putrid and bleach the infection, then invite your childhood dreams back, beckon the best of you and breathe deeper than you have in a very long time. Believe in the holdings of your heart. You can become anyone and anything your heart desires once you clear the clutter and stuff yourself with positive power and intentions.

~ Toni Sorenson

Self-struggle is spiritual.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

We can never know the impact a simple smile has on another. Smiling is one of the easiest things we can do. Is there a simpler, more effortless way to give everyone you meet a moment of joy, even a sense of worth?

~ Steve Goodier

It's none of your concern what others say or think about you. Your happiness is your own responsibility.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Sometimes, it is true, a sense of isolation enfolds me like a cold mist as I sit alone and wait at life’s shut gate. Beyond there is light, and music, and sweet companionship; but I may not enter. Fate, silent, pitiless, bars the way…Silence sits immense upon my soul. Then comes hope with a smile and whispers, ‘there is joy is self-forgetfulness.’ So I try to make the light in others’ eyes my sun, the music in others; ears my symphony, the smile on others’ lips my happiness.

~ Helen Keller

Learn the discipline of being surprised not by suffering but by joy. As we grow old, there is suffering ahead of us, immense suffering, a suffering that will continue to tempt us to think that we have chosen the wrong road. But don't be surprised by pain. Be surprised by joy, be surprised by the little flower that shows its beauty in the midst of a barren desert, and be surprised by the immense healing power that keeps bursting forth like springs of fresh water from the depth of our pain.

~ Henri J.m. Nouwen

Rejecting joy to stand in solidarity with the suffering doesn't rescue the suffering the converse does. The brave who focus and all things good and all things beautiful to give thanks for it and discover joy even in the here and now, they are the change agent to bring the fullest night to all the world.

~ Ann Voskamp

With memories of gravestones, of combing fingers through tangled hair, I wonder too ... If the rent in the canvas of our life backdrop, the losses that puncture our world, and our own emptiness, might actually become places to see.To see through to God.That which tears open our souls, those holes which splatter sight, they actually become the thin, open places to see through the mess of this place to the heart aching beauty beyond. To him. To the god whom we endlessly crave.But how? How do we choose to allow the holes to become seeing through to collect places? How do I give up resentment for gratitude, anger for spilling joy, so focus for God communion. To fully live to fully live grace enjoy with all that is beauty internal it is possible

~ Ann Voskamp

What need is there to say more?The childish work for their own benefit,The Buddhas work for the benefit of others.Just look at the difference between them.If I do not exchange my happiness, for the suffering of others, I shall not attain the state of Buddhahood.And even in Samsara I shall have no real joy. The source of all misery in the world lies in thinking of oneself;The source of all happiness lies in thinking of others.

~ Śāntideva

The pain wants to eat me away. I wish I could have one without the other, but that's the problem with being alive. You don't usually get to choose the measure of suffering or the degree of joy you have.

~ Ally Condie