Joy Quotes

Joy is a powerful and uplifting emotion that has the ability to brighten our lives in the simplest of moments. Whether it’s the laughter of a child, the beauty of a sunrise, or the warmth of being surrounded by loved ones, joy has a unique way of filling our hearts with happiness. In this collection, we have gathered a curated selection of quotes that celebrate the essence of joy, reminding us of its importance in our lives. These quotes can serve as a source of inspiration, motivation, or simply a reminder to embrace joy in all its forms. Feel free to explore these quotes, use them in your own creative projects, or share them with others to spread the joy. Scroll down to find a delightful array of joyous quotes that will brighten your day!

Now, without further ado, let’s dive into this wonderful world of joy through the wisdom and insights shared by various authors, thinkers, and individuals who have experienced the beauty of joy in their own lives.

Before the reward there must be labor. You plant before you harvest. You sow in tears before you reap joy. Ralph Ransom

Joy can only be real if people look upon their life as a service and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness. Leo Tolstoy

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. Albert Einstein

Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment. Claude Monet

Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy and serenity. Thich Nhat Hanh

There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief. Aeschylus

Each day holds a surprise. But only if we expect it can we see, hear, or feel it when it comes to us. Let’s not be afraid to receive each day’s surprise, whether it comes to us as sorrow or as joy It will open a new place in our hearts, a place where we can welcome new friends and celebrate more fully our shared humanity. Henri Nouwen

I really try to enjoy life and have joy with what I do. Tim Tebow

The joy of life consists in the exercise of one’s energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal. Aleister Crowley

Christmas is the spirit of giving without a thought of getting. It is happiness because we see joy in people. It is forgetting self and finding time for others. It is discarding the meaningless and stressing the true values. Thomas S. Monson

Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy. Felicia Hemans

It is a fine seasoning for joy to think of those we love. Moliere

A mentor is someone with a willingness to help others, who has a capacity to inspire, a determination to work hard, a clear sense of vision, an inspiring purpose, a deep sense of integrity and an appreciation for joy. Kerry Kennedy

Gratitude changes the pangs of memory into a tranquil joy. Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Love is the expression of one’s values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another. Ayn Rand

I spent a lot of years trying to outrun or outsmart vulnerability by making things certain and definite, black and white, good and bad. My inability to lean into the discomfort of vulnerability limited the fullness of those important experiences that are wrought with uncertainty: Love, belonging, trust, joy, and creativity to name a few. Brene Brown

Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor’s nose. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

He who seeks truth shall find beauty. He who seeks beauty shall find vanity. He who seeks order shall find gratification. He who seeks gratification shall be disappointed. He who considers himself the servant of his fellow beings shall find the joy of self-expression. He who seeks self-expression shall fall into the pit of arrogance. Moshe Safdie

The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun. Christopher McCandless

The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other’s life. Richard Bach

Beauty is whatever gives joy. Edna St. Vincent Millay

Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain… To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices – today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it. Kevyn Aucoin

There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation. Henri Bergson

Technological society has succeeded in multiplying the opportunities for pleasure, but it has great difficulty in generating joy. Pope Paul VI

Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life’s deepest joy: true fulfillment. Tony Robbins

True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new. Antoine de Saint-Exupery

A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live. Bertrand Russell

Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life. Virginia Woolf

Christmas is joy, religious joy, an inner joy of light and peace. Pope Francis

When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself. Tecumseh

Carrying yourself with poise and joy and peace within – that’s sexy. Leah LaBelle

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

Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home… it’s your responsibility to love it, or change it. Chuck Palahniuk

I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let’s face it, friends make life a lot more fun. Charles R. Swindoll

Joy is the simplest form of gratitude. Karl Barth

There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward. Khalil Gibran

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding. Leonardo da Vinci

A sense of humor… is needed armor. Joy in one’s heart and some laughter on one’s lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life. Hugh Sidey

Jazz, to me, is one of the inherent expressions of Negro life in America: the eternal tom-tom beating in the Negro soul – the tom-tom of revolt against weariness in a white world, a world of subway trains, and work, work, work; the tom-tom of joy and laughter, and pain swallowed in a smile. Langston Hughes

Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough. Emily Dickinson

I have drunken deep of joy, And I will taste no other wine tonight. Percy Bysshe Shelley

The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy. Jim Rohn

I find, in being black, a thing of beauty: a joy; a strength; a secret cup of gladness. Ossie Davis

No one undertakes research in physics with the intention of winning a prize. It is the joy of discovering something no one knew before. Stephen Hawking

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods. Plato

Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures. Thomas Aquinas

Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it. Greg Anderson

I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus. Malcolm Muggeridge

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief. Marcus Tullius Cicero

It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us; in joy we face the storm and defy it. Amelia Barr

To love the one who loves you, To admire the one who admires you, In a word, to be the idol of one’s idol, Is exceeding the limit of human joy; It is stealing fire from heaven. Delphine de Girardin

Basically, at the very bottom of life, which seduces us all, there is only absurdity, and more absurdity. And maybe that’s what gives us our joy for living, because the only thing that can defeat absurdity is lucidity. Albert Camus

Perfect happiness is a beautiful sunset, the giggle of a grandchild, the first snowfall. It’s the little things that make happy moments, not the grand events. Joy comes in sips, not gulps. Sharon Draper

Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good. Vaclav Havel

Comparison is a thug that robs your joy. But it’s even more than that – Comparison makes you a thug who beats down somebody – or your soul. Ann Voskamp

Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are. Marianne Williamson

Eating is not merely a material pleasure. Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill and happy companionship. It is of great importance to the morale. Elsa Schiaparelli

The game of basketball has been everything to me. My place of refuge, place I’ve always gone where I needed comfort and peace. It’s been the site of intense pain and the most intense feelings of joy and satisfaction. It’s a relationship that has evolved over time, given me the greatest respect and love for the game. Michael Jordan

Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons, a possession for all eternity. Oscar Wilde

Make space in your life for the things that matter, for family and friends, love and generosity, fun and joy. Without this, you will burn out in mid-career and wonder where your life went. Jonathan Sacks

Joy is the serious business of Heaven. C. S. Lewis

You have to create little pockets of joy in your life to take care of yourself. Jonathan Van Ness

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort. Franklin D. Roosevelt

The only joy in the world is to begin. Cesare Pavese

The garden of love is green without limit and yields many fruits other than sorrow or joy. Love is beyond either condition: without spring, without autumn, it is always fresh. Rumi

After many years of great mercy, after tasting of the powers of the world to come, we still are so weak, so foolish; but, oh! when we get away from self to God, there all is truth and purity and holiness, and our heart finds peace, wisdom, completeness, delight, joy, victory. Charles Spurgeon

The amazing thing about love and attention and encouragement and grace and success and joy is that these things are infinite. We get a new supply every single morning, and so we can give it away all day. We never, ever have to monitor the supply of others or grab or hoard. Glennon Doyle Melton

If you carry joy in your heart, you can heal any moment. Carlos Santana

A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness. John Keats

There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something. Henry Ford

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties. Helen Keller

Joy is not in things; it is in us. Richard Wagner

I write about the power of trying, because I want to be okay with failing. I write about generosity because I battle selfishness. I write about joy because I know sorrow. I write about faith because I almost lost mine, and I know what it is to be broken and in need of redemption. I write about gratitude because I am thankful – for all of it. Kristin Armstrong

Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy. Leo Buscaglia

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

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

Peace is the beauty of life. It is sunshine. It is the smile of a child, the love of a mother, the joy of a father, the togetherness of a family. It is the advancement of man, the victory of a just cause, the triumph of truth. Menachem Begin

The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again. Charles Dickens

Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain. Joseph Campbell

I don’t think of myself as a role model. I do try to live in a compassionate, considerate and positive way. The only advice I can offer is to find what you love to do, find the joy in it, and express yourself through your passion. Barry Williams

To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth. Pearl S. Buck

Singing is my passion, my first love and the secret of my energy. Music to me is like finding my inner self, my soul. It gives me a great joy to see audiences enjoying with me. I have given my heart to singing. When I sing, I can feel romance in everything around me. Kailash Kher

Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past. Nikolai Gogol

God has blessed me with an amazing family, friends and work colleagues that have been my joy, my support, and my sanity. I don’t know what I’d do without them. Josie Loren

When the faith is strong enough, it is sufficient just to be. It’s a journey towards simplicity, towards quietness, towards a kind of joy that is not in time. It’s a journey that has taken us from primary identification with our body and our psyche, on to an identification with God, and ultimately beyond identification. Ram Dass

A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked. Anais Nin

Life is a series of punches. It presents a lot of challenges. It presents a lot of hardship, but the people that are able to take those punches and able to move forward are the ones that really do have a lot of success and have a lot of joy in their life and have a lot of stories to tell, too. Josh Turner

The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world’s joy. Henry Ward Beecher

Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy. Lao Tzu

Joy is prayer; joy is strength: joy is love; joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. Mother Teresa

Carrying a grudge is a heavy burden. As you forgive, you will feel the joy of being forgiven. Henry B. Eyring

Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm. Jean Paul

Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy. William Butler Yeats

I don’t think that you can possibly embrace the kind of joy which one who has worked with plants and plant structures such as I have over a period of nearly 40 years, how wonderful the plant laboratory seems. Percy Julian

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible – it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could. Barbara De Angelis

If you are a chef, no matter how good a chef you are, it’s not good cooking for yourself; the joy is in cooking for others – it’s the same with music. will.i.am

God’s plan for enlarging His kingdom is so simple – one person telling another about the Savior. Yet we’re busy and full of excuses. Just remember, someone’s eternal destiny is at stake. The joy you’ll have when you meet that person in heaven will far exceed any discomfort you felt in sharing the gospel. Charles Stanley

The secret to life is finding joy in ordinary things. I’m interested in happiness. Ruth Reichl

Let your joy be in your journey – not in some distant goal. Tim Cook

Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams. Hosea Ballou

Anton Usov

I am Anton Usov, an educator with a passion for quotes that resonate with the human experience. Over many years, I have curated a collection that reflects wisdom and emotions across time. Join me in exploring the power of words to inspire and enlighten our paths.

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