Quotes about joy

Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue.

— Henry Fielding

Unexplained joy is always so keen that... it seems to hold enough to reconcile one to the inevitable.

— Jessie B. Fremont

Joys divided are increased.

— Josiah Gilbert Holland

One can endure sorrow alone, but it takes two to be glad.

— Elbert Hubbard

Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart.

— King Jr. Martin Luther

I sometimes wander whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.

— C. S. Lewis

The primary joy of life is acceptance, approval, the sense of appreciation and companionship of our human comrades. Many men do not understand that the need for fellowship is really as deep as the need for food, and so they go through life accepting many substitutes for genuine, warm, simple.

— Joshua Loth Liebman

Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one's identity as a being of worth and dignity.

— Rollo May

The most profound joy has more of gravity than of gaiety in it.

— Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

Happy is the person who not only sings, but feels God's eye is on the sparrow, and knows He watches over me. To be simply ensconced in God is true joy.

— Alfred A. Montapert

Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. A joyful heart is the inevitable result of a heart burning with love

— Mother Teresa

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

Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

— Jean Paul

Joy has this in common with pain, that it robs people of reason.

— Platen

One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

— Chinese Proverb

The joys we expect are not so bright, nor the troubles so dark as we fancy they will be.

— Charles Reade

We French found it and called it joie de vivre -- the joy of living.

— Renee Repound

The joy is that we can take back our bodies, reclaim our health, and restore ourselves to balance. We can take power over what and how we eat. We can rejuvenate and recharge ourselves, bringing healing to the wounds we carry inside us, and bringing to fuller life the wonderful person that each of us can be.

— John Robbins

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

— Jim Rohn

The joy in life is to be used for a purpose. I want to be used up when I die.

— George Bernard Shaw

The surest mark of a Christian is not faith, or even love, but joy.

— Samuel M. Shoemaker

What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they've taken away?

— Logan Pearsall Smith

For one mother, joy is the quiet pleasure found in gently rubbing shampoo into her young child's hair. For another woman it's taking a long walk alone, while for yet another it's reviling in a much -- anticipated vacation.

— Eileen Stukane

Joy is free, unrestrained passion

— Eileen Stukane

Joy is a subtle elf; I think one's happiest when he forgets himself.

— Cyril Tourneur

The end of life is life. Life is action, the use of one's powers. And to use them to their height is our joy of duty.

— Source Unknown

May your joys be as deep as the ocean, your sorrows as light as its foam.

— Source Unknown

Joy is not in things, it is in us.

— Richard Wagner

Joy, has no cost.

— Marianne Williamson

This, this it is to be accursed indeed; For if we mortals love, or if we sing/We count our joys not by the things we have/But by what kept us from the perfect thing.

— Paul Laurence Dunbar

DonÂ’t look for it outside Joy is always in you All youÂ’ve got to do is awaken to it

— Roxana Jones

My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate -- that's my philosophy.

— Thornton Wilder