Joy Quotes

“It is only when the mind is free from the old that it meets everything anew, and in that there is joy.”
― J. Krishnamurti

“Create. Not for the money. Not for the fame. Not for the recognition. But for the pure joy of creating something and sharing it.”
― Ernest Barbaric

“True friends don't come with conditions.”
― Aaron Lauritsen, 100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip

“Something I constantly notice is that unembarrassed joy has become rarer. Joy today is increasingly saddled with moral and ideological burdens, so to speak. When someone rejoices, he is afraid of offending against solidarity with the many people who suffer. I don't have any right to rejoice, people think, in a world where there is so much misery, so much injustice.

I can understand that. There is a moral attitude at work here. But this attitude is nonetheless wrong. The loss of joy does not make the world better - and, conversely, refusing joy for the sake of suffering does not help those who suffer. The contrary is true. The world needs people who discover the good, who rejoice in it and thereby derive the impetus and courage to do good. Joy, then, does not break with solidarity. When it is the right kind of joy, when it is not egotistic, when it comes from the perception of the good, then it wants to communicate itself, and it gets passed on. In this connection, it always strikes me that in the poor neighborhoods of, say, South America, one sees many more laughing happy people than among us. Obviously, despite all their misery, they still have the perception of the good to which they cling and in which they can find encouragement and strength.

In this sense we have a new need for that primordial trust which ultimately only faith can give. That the world is basically good, that God is there and is good. That it is good to live and to be a human being. This results, then, in the courage to rejoice, which in turn becomes commitment to making sure that other people, too, can rejoice and receive good news.”
― Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger/Pope Benedict

“Those who wish to sing always find a song.”
― Swedish proverb

“You've got to S-M-I-L-E
To be H-A-Double-P-Y”
― Shirley Temple

“And when the hourglass has run out, the hourglass of temporality, when the noise of secular life has grown silent and its restless or ineffectual activism has come to an end, when everything around you is still, as it is in eternity, then eternity asks you and every individual in these millions and millions about only one thing: whether you have lived in despair or not.”
― Soren Kierkegaar

“Do we know our poor people? Do we know the poor in our house, in our family? Perhaps they are not hungry for a piece of bread. Perhaps our children, husband, wife, are not hungry, or naked, or dispossessed, but are you sure there is no one there who feels unwanted, deprived of affection?”
― Mother Teresa, Heart of Joy: The Transforming Power of Self Giving

“The goal of prayer is to live all of my life and speak all of my words in the joyful awareness of the presence of God.
Prayer becomes real when we grasp the reality and goodness of God's constant presence with 'the real me.' Jesus lived his everyday life in conscious awareness of his Father.”
― John Ortberg, The Me I Want to Be: Becoming God's Best Version of You

“There is no joy in the soul that has forgotten what God prizes.”
― Oswald Chambers

“People, he thought, were as hungry for a sight of joy as he had always been--for a moment's relief from that gray load of suffering which seemed so inexplicable and unnecessary. He had never been able to understand why men should be unhappy.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

“Helping others is the secret sauce to a happy life.”
― Todd Stocker, Refined: Turning Pain into Purpose

“Joy blooms where minds and hearts are open.”
― Jonathan Lockwood Huie

“Am I as spontaneously kind to God as I used to be, or am I only expecting God to be kind to me? Am I full of the little things that cheer His heart over me, or am I whimpering because things are going hardly with me? There is no joy in the soul that has forgotten what God prizes.”
― Oswald Chambers

“It is strange,' he said at last. 'I had longed to enter the world of men. Now I see it filled with sorrow, with cruelty and treachery, with those who would destroy all around them.'
'Yet, enter it you must,' Gwydion answered, 'for it is a destiny laid on each of us. True, you have seen these things. But there are equal parts of love and joy.”
― Lloyd Alexander, The Black Cauldron

“Because when you’re laughing, there is no other emotion in that moment except for joy.”
― Robert Schimmel, Cancer on $5 a Day* *(chemo not included): How Humor Got Me Through the Toughest Journey of My Life

“Oh happy pessimists! What a joy it is to them to be able to prove again and again that there is no joy.”
― Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, Aphorisms

“We forget that the sweetest joys are found in the simplest acts: hugs, laughter, quiet observation, basic movements, holding hands, pleasant music, shared stories, a listening ear, an unhurried visit, and selfless service. It is sad we forget a truth so elementary.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year

“One thing I do know my son-in-law didn't hate you. That man loved you so much, sweetie," her father commented.”
― Sharon Carter, Love Auction: Too Risky to Love Again

“The place I go when I feel trapped inside myself. When I'm terrified that all my happiest moments belong to the past. Wen my body is humming with too much of something, or aching from too little, and life stretches out ahead of me like a threat.”
― Emily Henry, Happy Place

“Connection is health. And what our society does its best to disguise from us is how ordinary, how commonly attainable, health is. We lose our health - and create profitable diseases and dependences - by failing to see the direct connections between living and eating, eating and working, working and loving. In gardening, for instance, one works with the body to feed the body. The work, if it is knowledgeable, makes for excellent food. And it makes one hungry. The work thus makes eating both nourishing and joyful, not consumptive, and keeps the eater from getting fat and weak. This is health, wholeness, a source of delight. (pg.132, The Body and the Earth)”
― Wendell Berry, The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays

“What can we make of the inexpressible joy of children? It is a kind of gratitude, I think—the gratitude of the ten-year-old who wakes to her own energy and the brisk challenge of the world. You thought you knew the place and all its routines, but you see you hadn’t known. Whole stacks at the library held books devoted to things you knew nothing about. The boundary of knowledge receded, as you poked about in books, like Lake Erie’s rim as you climbed its cliffs. And each area of knowledge disclosed another, and another. Knowledge wasn’t a body, or a tree, but instead air, or space, or being—whatever pervaded, whatever never ended and fitted into the smallest cracks and the widest space between stars.”
― Annie Dillard, An American Childhood

“Let us do without soldiers. The joy built upon successful slaughter is not the right kind of joy; it will not do; it is fearful and it is trivial.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

“WHEN YOU'RE FEELING DOWN,
ALWAYS BELIEVE THAT
THE PAIN YOU'VE BEEN FEELING,
WILL SOON GO AWAY,
AND JOY IS ON THE WAY.”
― Mouloud Benzadi

“ALWAYS BELIEVE THAT:
THE PAIN YOU'VE BEEN FEELING
WILL SOON GO AWAY..
ALWAYS BELIEVE THAT:
JOY IS ON THE WAY.”
― Mouloud Benzadi

“NEVER LOSE HOPE
AS THE PAIN YOU'VE BEEN FEELING,
WILL SOON GO AWAY,
AND JOY IS ON THE WAY.”
― Mouloud Benzadi

“ALWAYS BELIEVE THAT:
PAIN YOU'VE BEEN FEELING
WILL SOON GO AWAY..
ALWAYS BELIEVE THAT:
JOY IS ON THE WAY.”
― Mouloud Benzadi

“The inner woman is the source of healing. The inner woman is the source of silence. The inner woman is the source of love. The inner woman is the source of belongingness with life. Embracing the inner man and woman is to discover our inner roots and wings.”
― Swami Dhyan Giten, Presence - Working from Within. The Psychology of Being

“I've been quite a late developer on the clothes front, but I've suddenly realised it is one of life's joys.”
― Benedict Cumberbatch

“Christmas time! That man must be a misanthrope indeed, in whose breast something like a jovial feeling is not roused—in whose mind some pleasant associations are not awakened—by the recurrence of Christmas. There are people who will tell you that Christmas is not to them what it used to be; that each succeeding Christmas has found some cherished hope, or happy prospect, of the year before, dimmed or passed away; that the present only serves to remind them of reduced circumstances and straitened incomes—of the feasts they once bestowed on hollow friends, and of the cold looks that meet them now, in adversity and misfortune. Never heed such dismal reminiscences. There are few men who have lived long enough in the world who cannot call up such thoughts any day of the year. Then do not select the merriest of the three hundred and sixty-five for your doleful recollections, but draw your chair nearer the blazing fire—fill the glass and send round the song—and if your room be smaller than it was a dozen years ago, or if your glass be filled with reeking punch, instead of sparkling wine, put a good face on the matter, and empty it offhand, and fill another, and troll off the old ditty you used to sing, and thank God it’s no worse.”
― Charles Dickens, Sketches by Boz Vol. I