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Inspirational Joy Quotes
Capture joy in your daily life with these happy quotes.
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
~ Nhat Hanh
When you are joyful, when you say yes to life and have fun and project positivity all around you, you become a sun in the center of every constellation, and people want to be near you.
~ Shannon L. Alder
Joy lies in the fight, in the attempt, in the suffering involved, not in the victory itself.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.
~ Tom Bodett
If you can’t find joy in the path you are on and what you are working toward now, how do you expect to find joy once you get there?
~ Anonymous
Being in a state of joy is a learned skill, not an innate ability.
~ Donald Altman
Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home… it’s your responsibility to love it, or change it.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
There are souls in this world who have the gift of finding joy everywhere, and leaving it behind them when they go.
~ Frederick William Faber
We only need to open our eyes to see the gifts that abound all around us. These are the simple joys in life.
~ Genevieve
There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.
~ Khalil Gibran
Just follow your joy. Always. I think that if you do that, life will take you on the course that it’s meant to take you.
~ Jonathan Groff
True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
If you carry joy in your heart, you can heal any moment.
~ Carlos Santana
When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.
~ Rumi
The more the heart is sated with joy, the more it becomes insatiable.
~ Gabrielle Roy
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
Follow your bliss and don’t be afraid, and doors will open where you didn’t know they were going to be.
~ Joseph Campbell
Find out where joy resides, and give it a voice far beyond singing. For to miss the joy is to miss all.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.
~ Marianne Williamson
You will find joy in overcoming obstacles.
~ Helen Keller
Here are more positive quotes for a life of joy.
Choose Joy Quotes
Moments of happiness are good, but the most important thing is to choose joy daily. These quotes will help!
We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.
~ Joseph Campbell
To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.
~ Mark Twain
The joy we feel has little to do with the circ*mstances of our lives and everything to do with the focus of our lives.
~ Russel M. Nelson
There’s great joy in my giving. It’s thrilling. It’s exhilarating. It’s important to be a part of sharing.
~ W. Clement Stone
Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day.
~ Henri Nouwen
We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.
~ Buddha
We can choose to live in joy.
~ Joseph Campbell
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
Innovation comes from people who take joy in their work.
~ W. Edwards Deming
My greatest accomplishment, and my greatest pride and joy are my children. They truly are my greatest success. They have inspired me in all aspects of my life.
~ Catherine Pulsifer
Go find your joy. Whatever that is, go find your joy. Are you going to have a good day or are you going to have a great day? Because it’s completely up to you.
~ Sandra Bullock
Happiness is an emotional foundation of our lives, whereas joy ebbs and flows and is dependent on what occurs in our lives.
~ Will Bowen
As you get older, the cliches of life ring true. It’s the simple things that matter most: your family, the people you love, your health and sanity.
~ Ronan Keating
Love. Joy. Peace. Patience. Kindness. Goodness. Faithfulness. Gentleness, and self-control. To these, I commit my day.
~ Anonymous
Your life will always be better off when you concentrate on the simplest joys of life like drinking a cup of coffee!
~ Mehmet Murat ildan
Joy is prayer; joy is strength: joy is love; joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
~ Mother Teresa
If you have no joy, there’s a leak in your Christianity somewhere.
~ Billy Sunday
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
Joy is not the goal. It is the square one of your life. Other things can happen, only if this one thing happens.
~ Sadhguru
Another secret of happiness is to be thankful in all circ*mstances. Try these gratitude quotes and sayings!
Short Joy Quotes
Get back to a happy life more quickly with these short sayings about joy.
Let your joy be in your journey—not in some distant goal.
~ Tim Cook
He who has not looked on Sorrow will never see Joy.
~ Kahlil Gibran
Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.
~ Jean Paul
Joy is increased by spreading it to others.
~ Robert Murray McCheyne
The joy that isn’t shared dies young.
~ Anne Sexton
Spread joy. Chase your wildest dreams.
~ Patch Adams
The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
Comparison is the thief of joy.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
Your joy is your sorrow unmasked.
~ Kahlil Gibran
Joy does not come and go. It is the life source within you.
~ Sadhguru
Nobody understands another’s sorrow, and nobody another’s joy.
~ Franz Schubert
Friendship will always find joy in unique relationships.
~ Martin Murphy,
Happiness is there for the taking and making.
~ Oprah
Do few things but do them well, simple joys are holy.
~ Francis of Assisi
When we are centered in joy, we attain our wisdom.
~ Marianne Williamson
We have to embrace obstacles to reach the next stage of joy.
~ Goldie Hawn
Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.
~ Emily Dickinson
The soul’s joy lies in doing.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.
~ Pearl S. Buck
Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.
~ Karl Barth
Christmas is joy, religious joy, an inner joy of light and peace.
~ Pope Francis
Where there is love, there is joy.
~ Mother Teresa
Joy is not in things; it is in us.
~ Richard Wagner
The secret to life is finding joy in ordinary things. I’m interested in happiness.
~ Ruth Reichl
Let your joy spring forth from within.
~ ATGW
A joy that’s shared is a joy made double.
~ Proverb
Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.
~ Dr. Seuss
Find joy in the ordinary.
~ Anonymous
The simple pleasures of life give us lasting satisfaction.
~ Avijeet Das
It is a fine seasoning for joy to think of those we love.
~ Moliere
Be committed to living in constant joy.
~ Pam Brout
The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.
~ Jim Rohn
Light up the world with your joy.
~ Anonymous
It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.
~ Laura Ingalls Wilder
Joy is the serious business of Heaven.
~ C. S. Lewis
Find joy in the journey.
~ Anonymous
Scatter joy!
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life doesn’t have to be perfect to be filled with joy.
~ Anonymous
A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
~ John Keats, Endymion: A Poetic Romance
In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.
~ W. H. Auden
Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.
~ Leo Buscaglia
There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.
~ Aeschylus
I’m not going to get upset. I’m not going to let people steal my joy.
~ Joel Osteen
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A Life of Joy Quotes
Life’s worth living when it’s full of joy! Here’s help finding it.
Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
~ Joseph Campbell
A flower blooms for its own joy.
~ Oscar Wilde
The essence of life is not in the great victories and grand failures, but in the simple joys.
~ Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other’s life.
~ Richard Bach
When work is a pleasure, life is a joy. When work is a duty, life is a slavery.
~ Maxim Gorky
Joy is the realest reality, the fullest life, and joy is always given, never grasped.
~ Ann Voskamp
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
Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.
~ Greg Anderson
The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world’s joy.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity’s sun rise.
~ William Blake
Joy; the kind of happiness that doesn’t depend on what happens.
~ David Steindl-Rast
Joy is a deeply felt contentment that transcends difficult circ*mstances and derives maximum enjoyment from every good experience
~ Charles Swindoll
Whether you know or not, you are the infinite potential of love, peace, and joy.
~ Annie Ray
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
She found joy and wonder in every little thing. And joy and wonder always found her.
~ Katrina Mayer
When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and brings joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.
~ Jean Shinoda Bolen
A joyful life is made up of joyful moments gracefully strung together.
~ Brene Brown
The healthiest response to life is joy.
~ Mark Twain
If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I’ll bet they’d live a lot differently.
~ Bill Watterson
A joyful heart is the normal result of a heart burning with love. She gives most who gives with joy.
~ Mother Teresa
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