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I think I'm allergic or something. I feel kinda strange... sort of floaty and light-headed.""You ain't sick, hon," Mom said. She kissed me cheek and hugged me so tight I thought I might break a rib. "That's joy.
— Meredith Russo
A smile will go the mile, while a frown will take you down.
— Anthony Liccione
Joy is your heart's housekeeper.
— Gayle Wray
Yes; he had done it. She was in the carriage, and felt that he had placed her there, that his will and his hands had done it, that she owed it to his perception of her fatigue, and his resolution to give her rest. She was very much affected by the view of his disposition towards her, which all these things made apparent. This little circumstance seemed the completion of all that had gone before. She understood him. He could not forgive her, but he could not be unfeeling. Though condemning her for the past, and considering it with high and unjust resentment, though perfectly careless of her, and though becoming attached to another, still he could not see her suffer, without the desire of giving her relief. It was a remainder of former sentiment; it was an impulse of pure, though unacknowledged friendship; it was a proof of his own warm and amiable heart, which she could not contemplate without emotions so compounded of pleasure and pain, that she knew not which prevailed.
— Jane Austen, Persuasion
Today when you meet someone, try not to complain, judge or criticise. The least you can do is to give them love, joy, and put smile on their face.
— Kabelo Mabona
You prepare as best you can for the bad times- then live every moment with joy.
— Shirley Rousseau Murphy, Cat Seeing Double
Spring is made of solid, fourteen-karat gratitude, the reward for the long wait. Every religious tradition from the northern hemisphere honors some form of April hallelujah, for this is the season of exquisite redemption, a slam-bang return to joy after a season of cold second thoughts.
— Barbara Kingsolver, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
So overjoyed were they at their deliverance that they laughed aloud, and the Earth seemed to them like a flower of silver, and the Moon like a flower of gold.
— Oscar Wilde, The Star-Child and Other Tales
I wait for what comes and experience the joy and delight of the unexpected.
— Diane L. Dunton, Living, Learning, Healing: Inspirational Stories from the Heart
All that I ask out of life is that it be constant and unending euphoria.
— Roman Payne
Ester would tell her to dance faster, leap higher, to laugh out loud with all the breath in lungs. That’s what the dead would tell the living, if they could—to grab hold of joy whenever it comes.
— Claudia Gray, Defy the Stars
Even the memory of cradling her in my arms is pure euphoria. And all that I ask out of life is that it be constant and unending euphoria.
— Roman Payne
The moon and the stars sigh. The days elude them, but they are the ones who witness the sorrows of the night. How they wish they could resolve the unbound grief of the human heart. If only, they could know what it was looking for. If only, unbound joy could be the answer.
— Sanchit Gupta, The Tree with a Thousand Apples
All things want to float as light as air through the world witnessing all that is. I am a mote of dust floating freely in the firmament, a person who merely is, and I feel full of joy for all worldly treasures, the immaculate gift of life.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
Joy sometimes take baby steps
— Gary Rudz
There is something joyful about storms, that interrupt routine. Snow or freezing rain suddenly releases you from expectations, performance demands, and the tyranny of appointments and schedules. And unlike illness, it is largely a corporate, rather than individual experience. One could almost hear a unified sigh rise from the nearby city and surrounding countryside, where nature has intervened to give respite to the weary humans slogging it out within her purview. All those affected this way are united by a mutual excuse, and the heart is suddenly, and unexpectedly, a little giddy. There will be no apologies needed for not showing up to some commitment or other. Everyone understands and shares in this singular justification, and the sudden alleviation of the pressure to produce makes the heart merry....Even if it's hardly more than a day or two, somehow each person feels like the master of his or her own world, simply because those little droplets of water freeze as they hit the ground. Even commonplace activities become extraordinary. Routine choices become adventures and are often experienced with a sense of heightened clarity.
— William Paul Young
I ran outta tears of sadness when I was 20 & all I got left is tears of joy.
— Genereux Philip
For joy alone, Carries a fountain of youth.Laughter's music, Will wrinkle smooth.- Poem Fountain of Youth
— Kari L. Greenaway, Hope Doesn't Hide
...men are as vulnerable to joy as they are to suffering.
— Michel Bernanos, The Other Side of the Mountain
God allows us to live in the time of harvest to experience the joy of the harvest
— Sunday Adelaja
Joy in the Holy spirit is one of the signs of the kingdom of God
— Sunday Adelaja
Everything is aimed at producing joy in God’s people
— Sunday Adelaja
The expression of gratitude for whatever blessing you receive from God here on earth can only be in Joy
— Sunday Adelaja
Joy is much sweeter for having known sorrow
—  and triumph for having tasted defeat.
Joy is the feeling of one's powers increasing.
— Matthew B. Crawford
Along our journey we will be confronted with many situations, some will be filled with joy, and some will be filled with heartache. How we react to what we are faced will determine what kind of outcome the rest of our journey through life will be like.
— Susan Samaroo
While the light remains,' said Carde, speaking slowly in his high deliberate voice, 'only do not forsake the joy of life. If you shall have given all your kisses, you will give too few. And as leaves fall from withered wreaths which you may see spread upon the cups and floating there, so for us, who now as lovers hope for so much, perhaps tomorrow's day will close the doom.
— Iris Murdoch, The Sandcastle
The greatest joy is to be a mirror of God’s love
— Sunday Adelaja
Nothing has to be funny. Sometimes I just laugh to heal my soul.
— TemitOpe Ibrahim
Often person X can only find happiness when they feel that person Y can see how happy they are... This is the lowest level of happiness - what I call the tyranny of happiness. I like how Brian Miller draws a contrast between the tyranny of happiness and true joy.“Unlike [the tyranny of] happiness, joy is never in our power. It’s not something we can make or choose for ourselves. Instead it’s the sensation that Lewis says jumps under one’s ribs, tickles down one’s back, makes one forget meals and keeps one delighted. It’s an enormous comfort, under all this pressure to be happy, to remember that you don’t have to be in control. You can instead be surprised by joy. – B. Miller
— Chester Elijah Branch, Lecture Notes
Nothing has to be funny, sometimes I just laugh to unclog my soul.
— TemitOpe Ibrahim
Usually when we talk about blessings, we experience joy and anticipation of a greater presence of God in our lives
— Sunday Adelaja
To radiate joy is to reveal deep compassion for hurting people
— Sunday Adelaja
you have everything. still ,you have nothing . sad .
— litymunshi
But Mary had not come into the world to be sad or to help another to be sad. Sorrowful we may often have to be, but to indulge in sorrow is either not to know or to deny God our Saviour. True, her heart ached for Letty; and the ache immediately laid itself as close to Letty's ache as it could lie; but that was only the advance-guard of her army of salvation, the light cavalry of sympathy: the next division was help; and behind that lay patience, and strength, and hope, and faith,and joy. This last, modern teachers, having failed to regard it as a virtue, may well decline to regard as a duty; but he is a poor Christian indeed in whom joy has not at least a growing share, and Mary was not a poor Christian--at least, for the time she had been learning, and as Christians go in the present aeon of their history.
— George MacDonald, Mary Marston
You cannot impose a culture from the top--it must come from under. It grows out of the soil, out of the people, out of their daily life and work. It is a spontaneous expression of their joy of life, of their joy in work, and if this does not exist, the culture will not exist. Joy is a spiritual quality, an impalpable quality: that too cannot be forced. It must be an inevitable state of mind, born of the elementary processes of life, a by-product of natural human growth.
— Herbert Read, To Hell with Culture
We are fragile creatures, and it is from this weakness, not despite it, that we discover the possibility of true joy.
— Desmond Tutu, The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World
Be the kind of person who is a joy to be around. Caring for and loving others brings out the best in you and keeps your heart open to the unspoken and deeply buried needs of others.
— Farshad Asl, The "No Excuses" Mindset: A Life of Purpose, Passion, and Clarity
Awe ignites joy because it makes us bend the knee.
— Ann Voskamp, One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are
Im not looking for perfection, just perfect flaws.
— Kierra C.T. Banks
It is as if joy were the default setting of human emotion, not the furtive, fugitive glimpses it becomes in lives compromised by necessity, familiarity, ‘maturity,’ suffering. You must become as little children, Jesus said, a statement that is often used to justify anti-intellectualism and the renunciation of reason, but which I take actually to mean that we must recover this sense of wonder, this excess of spirit brimming out of the body.
— Christian Wiman, My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer
There are people out there waiting for you. Indeed, you are the only one who can bring joy in the heart of people. Yes, sometimes only with one smile.
— Dariush Youkhaneh, Serving the living God
...and gentle happy and peaceful, tasting the mean goodness of their living like the last of their suppers in their mouths.
— James Agee, A Death in the Family
The young man murmured in his sleep and said, “Dear Sparrow,” and Sparrow felt, for the first time, how the purest joy could be a heaviness.
— Madeleine Thien, Do Not Say We Have Nothing
True joy, as it turns out, comes only to those who have devoted their lives to something greater than personal happiness.
— John Ortberg, The Life You've Always Wanted: Spiritual Disciplines for Ordinary People
In the greatest sorrow, we shall find the grace of joy.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
What is most decisive is God's Joy Project is not that we fully grasp it, but that our sovereign God fully grasps us.
— Tony Reinke, The Joy Project: A True Story of Inescapable Happiness
Think of joy! Think of realities! Realities bring real joy and inner peace even in discomfort!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, Religion, Philosophy and life
No, it was not regret which made Anne's heart beat in spite of herself, and brought the colour into her cheeks when she thought of Captain Wentworth unshackled and free. She had some feelings which she was ashamed to investigate. They were too much like joy, senseless joy!
— Jane Austen, Persuasion
Discovering more joy does not, save us from th inevitability of hardship and heartbreak. In fact, we may cry more easily, but we will laugh more easily too. Perhaps we are just more alive. Yet as we discover more joy, we can face suffering in a way that ennobles rather than embitters. We have hardship without becoming hard. We have heartbreaks without being broken.
— Desmond Tutu, The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World
People who truly live their lives don't have time to complain or judge others. They're too busy enjoying life and love and everything in between!
— Charlotte Eriksson
There goes a lot of pain in raising children. But the pain is equally or overtly compensated by the joy of parenthood.
— Girdhar Joshi, Some Mistakes Have No Pardon
Joy comes when you turn it over to God to deal with. This is when you will feel the true release from it's weight.
— Shannon L. Alder
Happiness is an undercurrent of sensitivity and leads a surreptitious life: it is an internal eventuality. We can feel it in stillness and it stands the test of time. Joy is an eruption of cheerful moments and we want to express it: it is an external eventuality. We might shout it out, as it conveys a dynamic of fleeting instants. Joy gives voice to “en-joy-ment”. ("The grass was greener over there")
— Erik Pevernagie
The number one joy indicator, the one thing that will predict whether someone feels joy in their life or not, is the practice of gratitude.
— John O'Leary, On Fire: The 7 Choices to Ignite a Radically Inspired Life
Joy is the net of love by which we can capture souls. God loves the person who gives with joy. Whoever gives with joy gives more. The best way to show our gratitude to God and to people is to accept with joy.
— Mother Teresa, The Love of Christ: Spiritual Counsels
The everlasting God has in His wisdom foreseen from eternity the cross that He now presents to you as a gift from His inmost heart. This cross He now sends you He has considered with His all-knowing eyes, understood with His divine mind, tested with His wise justice, warmed with loving arms and weighed with His own hands to see that it be not one inch too large and not one ounce too heavy for you. He has blessed it with His holy Name, anointed it with His consolation, taken one last glance at you and your courage, and then sent it to you from heaven, a special greeting from God to you, an alms of the all-merciful love of God.
— St. Francis de Sales
The joy we feel has little to do with the circumstances of our lives and everything to do with the focus of our lives.
— Russel M. Nelson
I realized during some of the darkest moments of my life, that the most beautiful and precious happiness in the world is the Joy of Giving.
— Kiran Shaikh
You bless my heart the only way you can bless the world as well ..... Just by existing you make me the happiest woman alive.
— Nani Rsv
Michael Ende + Petra HermansThere is joy of life.AmenNovember 20, 2016
— Petra Hermans
The things that people were the most grateful for were the ordinary things in life. The sound of your spouse’s laugh, the smell of morning coffee, the echo of children playing in the yard. The little things. In waiting for the big moments—the vacations, the retirements, the birthdays—we risk missing the experiences of life most worthy of celebrating.
— John O'Leary, On Fire: The 7 Choices to Ignite a Radically Inspired Life
HAPPINESS is based on externals; it fluctuates up and down every day. JOY, on the other hand, is internal; it can be cultivated and nurtured. We can be joyful even in the midst of a chaotic, unpredictable world.
— Laurie Buchanan, PhD
Abundant living is realizing that life is a privilege whether it’s adhering to our scripts or not.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
How beautiful it is to feel that what you cannot describe?
— Saim .A. Cheeda
The joy is in the journey.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Empowering beliefs are ideas that launch us forward and help us to become the person we want to be. Empowering beliefs are freeing, encouraging, and inclusive; they nurture and uplift. When we find ourselves harboring a limiting belief, we need to replace it with one that cultivates joy.
— Laurie Buchanan PhD
The things which give joy to you may also give you horror!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
We have a choice. We can be jaded by what we’ve lost, or joyous over what that thing had accomplished while we had it.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
When you are grateful,' Brother Steindl-Rast explained, 'you are not fearful, and when you are not fearful, you are not violent. When you are grateful, you act out of a sense of enough and not out of a sense of scarcity, and you are willing to share. If you are grateful, you are enjoying the differences between people and respectful to all people. The grateful world is a world of joyful people. Grateful people are joyful people. A grateful world is a happy world.
— Douglas Carlton Abrams, The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World
The more time you spend thinking about yourself, the more suffering you will experience.
— Dalai Lama XIV, The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World
I laugh at him, and behind us, several Inquisitors stir in surprise at the sound. Only Magiano can coax joy out of me so easily.
— Marie Lu, The Midnight Star
... I hadn't been paying attention to things like the sunrise, but that old sun had been coming up anyway. It didn't really care how I felt, it was going to rise and set regardless of whether I noticed it, and if I was going to enjoy it, that was up to me.
— Jeanette Walls
An enlightened person strives to live a meaningful life, defined by their personal humility joy, passion, and profound reverence for life.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
If you want to discover your true purpose for existing, all you have to do is look deeply into the things that bring you joy.
— Toni Sorenson
I suppose that I have not many months to live: but of course I know nothing about it. I may add that I am enjoying existence as much as ever, and regret nothing.
— Henry David Thoreau
Our minds are so cluttered with endless to-do lists that there's no room for us to experience the joy in being alive today.
— Craig Groeschel, Weird: Because Normal Isn't Working
To love life is to love God.
— Leo Tolstoy
Her eyes are shining; she’s excited now, ready to go. For a moment, standing in the fuzzy haze of sunlight still penetrating the blinds, she appears to be glowing, as though lit up by some internal flame. And now I know why they invented words for love, why they had to: It’s the only thing that can come close to describing what I feel in that moment, the baffling mixture of pain and pleasure and fear and joy, all running sharply through me at once.
— Lauren Oliver, Delirium
Yves Klein said it was the essence of colour itself: the colour that stood for all other colours. A man once spent his entire life searching for a particular shade of blue that he remembered encountering in childhood. He began to despair of ever finding it, thinking he must have imagined that precise shade, that it could not possibly exist in nature. Then one day he chanced upon it. It was the colour of a beetle in a museum of natural history. He wept for joy.’- "Zima Blue" by Alastair Reynolds
— Alastair Reynolds
What immense satisfaction it must be to fashion a story like [Maupassant's]! One must say 'fashion' because it is not merely writing, but massing and cutting away like a sculptor, chiseling lean and clear. And to put one's work confidently in the crucible of Time; to know that in six perfect pages is the finest form of one's idea: This satisfaction is the only true reward of the artist, and this his highest possible joy on Earth.
— Patricia Highsmith
Our most intense joy comes not from personal feats, but from helping other persons achieve their goals. We become suppler human beings when we find true joy in witnessing other people’s successes and unabashedly share in their joyful accomplishments.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
We must discover our own path to joy and a sense of leading a purposeful existence. I spent the first part of life attempting to discern what a man ought to be, and spent the latter years attempting to reconcile why I was not the man whom I always aspired to be. A person endures a tragic consumption of the spirit when they discover that they are not what they desired to become.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
Hope is the seed of happiness.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Grace is gladness of existence.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
You think it’s a game?Unintelligible? Ha!Envision no spoons.This is serious.It is a matter of joyversus emptiness.
— Kristen Henderson
Even on the silent days, believe your ship will come.
— Shana Chartier
Making love was a game of echoes. We had shared memories so many times that when I made love to her, I knew exactly how it felt to be Purslane. I could taste and feel her other lovers and she could taste and feel mine, each experience reaching away like a reflection in a hall of mirrors, diminishing into a kind of carnal background radiation, a sea of sensuous experience. I had been a girl once, then a thousand men and women and all their lovers. The stasis field locked on. The Synchromesh took hold. I hurtled into my own future, while my ship ate space and time.- "House of Suns" by Alastair Reynolds
— Alastair Reynolds, House of Suns
It brought a lot of joy to me to be in his arms.
— Brey King, My Heart, My Kingdom's Queen
My first impression of [Patricia Highsmith] was a loneliness, a sadness in one so young (we were both in our early thirties) with absolutely no sense of joy or balance. Gauche to an extreme, really physically clumsy as well as boyish, it was almost impossible to put her at ease. It was as if she felt a deep distrust of everything.
— Patricia Schartle
The foremost calling of the human brain is to script a safe, secure, and joyous future for a person.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
Joy always follows on the heels of pain. If a person escapes a mindset that current events represent an ongoing tragedy, they will encounter and comprehend all the beauty that surrounds them. We find bliss by living alertly and unequivocally accepting whatever is occurring in the present moment. If a person realizes that the present moment is all that matters, they will gain an inner stillness and appreciate the beauty and joy of each day.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
Doing something for the mere joy of it—for one's self or others—is quite possibly one of the best returns on an investment of time that a person can receive.
— Laurie Buchanan, PhD
When we inhabit our own life—stop doing things based on the approval of others—we offload baggage and trade up to joy!
— Laurie Buchanan, PhD
If God could run out of grace, He would’ve for me by now. And yet every morning I wake up, He says, “There is more, there is still more.
— Genereux Philip
Joy is inexplicable peace that comes from within.
— Laurie Buchanan, PhD
We each want nothing more than to live for the moment. Nature hardwired us perpetually to follow the call of the wild, cull all the highs in life, and rejoice in life by dancing, singing, jumping, building nests, creating beauty, and playing with our young. We each find ourselves happiest when we are engaging in conduct that makes us feel alive.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
Happiness simply forms like a rainbow in the kindest and most grateful hearts.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons
Joy cannot be confused with the mere absence sorrow, misinterpreted as experiencing minimal despair, or misunderstood as living without crippling trepidation. Bliss necessarily encompasses uncompromising acceptance of life’s defining permutations. Emotional harmony necessitates beholding the pleasant and unpleasant exigencies of life while expressing unstinting appreciation for the ordinary and the extraordinary events in our lives. Joyfulness transcends the variations in physical and emotional demands exerted upon us. Elation for life allows us to rise above environmental determinates and associated stresses that might otherwise vex our souls including death and other sorrowful events.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
Nienor ran on into the woods until she was spent, and then fell, and slept, and awoke; and it was a sunlit morning, and she rejoiced in light as it were a new thing, and all things else that she saw seemed new and strange, for she had no names for them.
— J.R.R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion
Nothing can come of nothingness, the granthi had said. So to know joy, compassion, sympathy - to feel love - means also to have in the world their opposites.
— Sunjeev Sahota, The Year of the Runaways
I don’t remember now who took the photo of us, but I’ve had it in my room for years. We’re leaning out of our windows and we’re laughing at each other with joyfulness purer than anything to do with the polite smiling you get used to doing when you get older. The photo has the kind of proper smiles that happen when you’re looking straight into the face of someone who’s been your best friend for a long time.
— Sarah Moore Fitzgerald, The Apple Tart of Hope
He learned to trust the Father when circumstances seemed hopeless. Christ used the tool of adversity to forge radiant joy in his spirit.
— Nicholas Cappas, Heaven Breaks In
Finding our joy requires no leaping. It only wishes we’d opt for being lifted.
— Kelly Corbet, Already Here: The Matter of Love
One lesson I've learned--worry doesn't change tomorrow, it only robs today of its joy."-Charley
— Irene Hannon, Sea Rose Lane
But joy is individual, and can only be experienced alone. Hell is communal, but Heaven is personal.
— Simon Kurt Unsworth, The Devil's Evidence
Our true joy is like those sunglasses we’ve been looking for all over, suddenly realizing they’ve been propped on our head during our entire search. They’re already there, quietly waiting for us to reach up and realize they were never lost at all.
— Kelly Corbet, Already Here: The Matter of Love
May your life be filled with more gratitude.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Sixty years is too brief a compass for man’s imagination. The incomplete joys of this world can never satisfy his heart.
— Alexis de Tocqueville
I already know sorrow. Today I choose joy.
— Lynda Cheldelin Fell
The secret to happiness is elusive because it is a paradoxical truth. To gain happiness, you must first cease pursuing it. Things perceived to provide happiness are like shiny, pretty bubbles that lure us this way and that way, chasing after their glossy buoyancy. But once they are handled, they “pop”—empty—vanishing along with the hope that happiness could ever be captured. Happiness cannot be caught or won or purchased or even handled. Happiness simply forms like a rainbow in the kindest and most grateful hearts.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons
What had she have to wish for? Nothing but to grow more worthy of him whose intentions and judgment had been ever so superior to her own.
— Jane Austen, Emma
What had she to wish for? Nothing, but to grow more worthy of him whose intentions and judgment had been ever so superior to her own.
— Jane Austen, Emma
Happiness lies within the heart.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Life can only be filled with joys as we make our egos small enough to accept the fact that joy comes to those in whom there is only room for it to spill over.
— S. Emmanuel Epps
Joy is so deeply rooted in our souls that it is not tossed about by the waves of circumstance.
— R.A.Delmonico
As much as what I can think of life, it is more of a poetic journey with emotions & experience packed up in the form of livelihood. When it starts, it brings confirmation of a new soul entering into the world. But when it ends, it takes away not just soul, but happiness of those related to that life. It’s in the middle of this journey that the best poems get their sequence of words.
— Taranpreet Singh
Joy being of God was a living thing, a fountain not a cistern, one of those divine things that are possessed only as they overflow and flow away, and not easily come by because it must break into human life through the hard crust of sin and contingency. Joy came now here, now there, was held and escaped.
— Elizabeth Goudge, The Dean's Watch
Love frees us of all pain, or of any restraint. Once a circle that ever widens without end. Various colors it shines in our lives to paintExcelsis, glorious manifestation to befriend.
— Ana Claudia Antunes, ACross Tic
The sacred heart is filled with joy.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Some people reflect lightSome deflect itYou by some miracleSeem to collect it
— Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves
My life is in full tilt, and I reach forward with joy.
— Katina Makris, Out of the Woods: Healing from Lyme Disease for Body, Mind, and Spirit
The exhilarating alignment of the heavens was sufficiently rare that she recognized her moment of joy, thus making the joy that much more potent.
— Nevada Barr, The Rope
... suffice to say, joy is where you find it- usually on the shelf right next to sadness.
— Ingrid Schaffner, Maira Kalman: Various Illuminations
I'll put her in charge of the puppies. I've twelve this week that need tending. How does that suit you?"Leeli's mouth hung open. She tried to say something but instead crumpled to the floor. She had fainted with joy.
— Andrew Peterson, The Monster in the Hollows
We are our own greatest teachers. One way to follow our daily bliss is to let our inner guidance system to imagine and acknowledge, all our blessings. This determines the criteria of our day, which is JOY. It puts us in tune with the positive constructive energy and raises our vibration. Making a conscious decision to creating our day and enjoy feeling good takes some good practice but the end result is worthwhile
— Angie karan
Amidst the dim & desolate backdrop that was my world, a seed of hope bloomed into a garden of joyous wonder.
— Trevor Driggers
By nature man without woman can feel no joy. She is his mother, his sister, his loving friend. She is seldom his enemy.
— Christine de Pizan
Let's live in a joy.
— Deyth Banger
If the good so loved and desired do appear possible and feasible in the attaining, then it exciteth the passion of hope, which is a compound of desire and expectation : when we look upon it as requiring our endeavour to attain it, and as it is to be had in a prescribed way, then it provokes the passion of courage or boldness, and concludes in resolution. Lastly, If this good be apprehended as preset, then ti provoketh to delight or joy. If the thing itself be present, the jy is greatest. If but the idea of it, either through the remainder or memory of the good that is past, or through the fore-apprehension of that which we expect, yet even this also exciteth our joy. And this joy is the perfection of all the rest of the affections, when it is raised on the full fruition of the good itself(575).
— Richard Baxter, The Godly Home
If your hope dieth, your duties die, your endeavors die, your joys die, and your souls die. And if your hope be not acted, but lie asleep, it is next to dead, both in likenss and preparation( 585).
— Richard Baxter, The Saints' Everlasting Rest
Let's life bring a joy, and let's realise that this now is a lie and to make a truth. To make a real life!
— Deyth Banger
Joy. In every breath. In every moment. In every turn of the blossom to face the sun. In every stream of juice that trails my chin from fruit so sweet. In Him. In the coolness of the evening when He walks beside us and His laughter lifts across the river as He delights in our wonder over this place He has given us. In silence. In starlight. In shouting an anthem of gladness that shakes the earth and hails birds into flight.
— Alanna Rusnak, Eve Undone
After dissolution of fears, your mind and emotions act in harmony to help you to make you a joyous soul. You don’t need to do extra efforts to get what you desire.
— Hina Hashmi, Your Life A Practical Guide to Happiness Peace and Fulfilment
Let all thy joys be as the month of May.
— Francis Quarles
He believed with all his heart that we should spend our lives in happiness and service, in joy and work, in kindness and in love, and he lived... and died... what he believed.
— Aleksandra Layland, Ansgar: The Struggle of a People. The Triumph of the Heart.
Isn't that the only way to curate a life? To live among things that make you gasp with delight?
— Maira Kalman, My Favorite Things
Truth is neither joyful nor sad, neither good nor bad. It is simply truth.
— Robert Ludlum, The Matlock Paper
Forgiveness is the joy of friendship.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I’ve had four serious boyfriends in my life.”He growled.“What is wrong?”“Love is forever.” He gave her a disgusted look. “You have no idea what real love is, Joy.
— Laurann Dohner, Moon
Disappointment, fear, grief, unlove, dullness and guilt are the worst feelings. Learn from them so that you move on. Then replace them with more satisfying and promising joy, love gratitude, pride, confidence, direction.
— Diana Jaber
I think that sexuality is only attractive when it’s natural and spontaneous.
— H.L. Balcomb, Cinderella In Focus: "Curiosity is the doorway to our personal possibility!" 2nd Edition coming Oct.  31, 2017
The joy of learning is as indispensable in study as breathing is in running. Where it is lacking there are no real students, but only poor caricatures of apprentices who, at the end of their apprenticeship, will not even have a trade.
— Simone Weil
Leave no livid life in your days but vivid days in your life
— Ana Claudia Antunes, A-Z of Happiness: Tips for Living and Breaking Through the Chain that Separates You from Getting That Dream Job
If you follow your heart, you will always find happiness.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Our greed for joy is the sole reason for our sorrows
— Nilesh Rathod, Destiny of Shattered Dreams
Rather than telling you want not to be, think, wear, eat, say or do, your soul will be prompting you to reach for your greatest joy.
— Catherine Carrigan, Unlimited Intuition NOW
Contentment is the joy of life
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Daily dance is my delight.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
A simple test to ascertain how much you enjoy and derive meaning from your work is to ask yourself whether you would continue doing it if you won the lottery.
— Dennis Prager, Happiness Is a Serious Problem: A Human Nature Repair Manual
Happiness is the joy you feel striving toward your potential
— Shawn Achor, The Happiness Advantage: The Seven Principles of Positive Psychology That Fuel Success and Performance at Work
Maybe it was obsession, but it was also happiness; an escape from the suckiness of everyday life. And when you find something that makes you happy and giddy and excited every day, us fangirls know a truth that everyone else seems to have forgotten: you hold on to that joy tenaciously, for as long as you can.
— Goldy Moldavsky, Kill the Boy Band
A big group of daily friends or a white painted house with bills and mirrors, are not a necessity to me—but an intelligent conversation while sharing another coffee, is.
— Charlotte Eriksson
Build your home in small moments of joy, and you will always feel at home.
— Charlotte Eriksson
True happiness is not found. It finds you.
— Tony Reinke, The Joy Project: A True Story of Inescapable Happiness
Ocean people are different from land people. The ocean never stops saying and asking into ears, which don’t sleep like eyes. Those who live by the sea examine the driftwood and glass balls that float from foreign ships. They let scores of invisible imps loose out of found bottles. In a scoop of salt water, they revive the dead blobs that have been beached in storms and tides: fins, whiskers, and gills unfold; mouths, eyes, and colors bloom and spread. Sometimes ocean people are given to understand the newness and oldness of the world; then all morning they try to keep that boundless joy like a little sun inside their chests. The ocean also makes its people know immensity.
— Maxine Hong Kingston
Positive thoughts are a source of joy, love and an indication of our alignment with the source. Negative thoughts create disharmony in our body for example depression, fear and aggression indicate misalignment with the source.
— Hina Hashmi, Your Life A Practical Guide to Happiness Peace and Fulfilment
Those who understand God's sovereignty have joy even in the midst of suffering, a joy reflected on their very faces, for they see that their suffering is not without purpose.
— R.C. Sproul, Surprised by Suffering: The Role of Pain and Death in The Christian Life
When Sally stopped crying, she found herself alone, the cold draft of the window at her neck, and on both sides, the rows of doors went on and on, diminishing to nothing, the end. 'What fun it is to ride and sing a sleighing song tonight, oh.' What glories.Mathilde came. And though she appeared to be the... same sweet girl Sally had been afraid of, she was not. Sally saw the flint in her. Mathilde can save Lotto from his own laziness, Sally thought. But here they were, a year later, and he was still ordinary. The chorus caught in her throat. A stranger hurrying as fast as he could over the icy sidewalks looked in. He saw a circle of singing people bathed in the clean, white light from a tree, and his heart did a soumersault. And the image stayed with him, it merged with him even as he came home to his own children, who were already asleep in their beds, to his wife crossly putting together the tricycle without the screwdriver he'd run out to borrow. It remained long after his children ripped open their gifts and abandoned their toys and puddles of paper and grew too old for them and left their house and parents and childhoods, so that he and his wife gaped at each other in bewilderment as to how it had happened so terribly swiftly. All those years, the singers in the soft light in the basement apartment crystalized in his mind, became the very idea of what happiness should look like.
— Lauren Groff, Fates and Furies
The greatest life is the joy of contentment.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
For one scant day he had loved himself, felt himself to be unified and whole, not split into hostile parts; he had loved himself and the world and God in himself, and everywhere he went he had met nothing but love, approval, and joy.
— Hermann Hesse, Klingsors letzter Sommer
The hopes that, in my own heart sown,And cherished by such sun and rain,As Joy and transient Sorrow shed,Have ripened to a harvest there:
— Charlotte Brontë, The Brontës
With Jehovah- Jireh, life is a joyful journey.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The third element of love is mudita, joy. True love always brings joy to ourselves and to the one we love. If our love does not bring joy to both of us, it is not true love.
— Thich Nhat Hanh, El verdadero amor
We can't choose our lives, but we can decide what to do with the joys or griefs we're given.
— Paulo Coelho, Adultery
Maybe it was obsessio, but it was also happiness; an escape from the suckiness of everyday life. And when you find something that makes you happy and giddy and excited every day, us fangirls know a truth that everyone else seems to have forgotten: you hold on to that joy tenaciously, for as long as you can.
— Goldy Moldavsky, Kill the Boy Band
The greatest life is joy of contentment.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Everyone in your life gives you something. The bad ones give you experience, the worst ones a lesson; the good ones give you memories, the best ones, joy.
— Jeffrey Fry
The world is always in a hurry, but I teach My children patience. Live, expecting a full and joyous life. And learn to trust My perfect timing so that you may discover that all the pain found in waiting has a magnificent and awesome purpose.
— Eric Ludy, When God Writes Your Love Story: The Ultimate Approach to Guy/Girl Relationships
You need to get out of the nest if you ever want to fly.
— Todd Stocker
Rejoice while you can breathe.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I love the ride of life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The quality of your thoughts and the state of your mind will define how happy you are as a person. Happiness in your life comes from the way you think!
— Sanchita Pandey
Discomfort: the valley between the body and the soul. Comfort: the bridge between the body and the soul
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Like the unfolding of a rose, allow your authentic self to grow, bloom and emerge.... shine in your radiance and In JOY all that you ARE... send your love out to all you touch... like a delicate perfume in the breeze...
— Angie karan
Always have joy in your life by pursuing your bliss.
— Steven Redhead, Unleash The Power of Your Heart and Mind
It is a great joy to work for what you want.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Man is more himself, man is more manlike, when joy is the fundamental thing in him, and grief the superficial. Melancholy should be an innocent interlude, a tender and fugitive frame of mind; praise should be the permanent pulsation of the soul.
— G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy
Engage in the work that brings you joy.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Obedience, responsibility, rules and safety are loyal, inseparable playmates. But Love is their wise mother, who knows there are times to break them up, at least for a bit, lest they get into some kind of arrogant, bullish, mischief or completely shut out their other siblings - joy, common sense, and compassion.
— Connie Kerbs, Paths of Fear: An Anthology of Overcoming Through Courage, Inspiration, and the Miracle of Love
Preparing and serving food had always been a joy, for it made her appreciate the abundance of the world.
— Elizabeth Camden, Until the Dawn
If we never experienced the the valuable lessons from failure, then we would never truly appreciate the pure joy of our success.
— Lindsey Rietzsch, Successful Failures: Recognizing the Divine Role That Opposition Plays in Life's Quest for Success
I have enough of everything.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Time is now. Live a fuller life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Be a burst of joy.
— A.D. Posey
I sing the song in my heart.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Joy is joy.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Fall in love with life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Life is sacred gift. There is nothing to lose, only joy.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
You will never know the purest love you can give a person, until the day you hurt because they hurt. You genuinely want them to succeed in life and be free from all the chains that keep them from being happy, whether you are in their life or not.
— Shannon L. Alder
The most glorious moment you will ever experience in your life is when you look back and see how God was protecting you all this time.
— Shannon L. Alder
If you truly loved someone and they couldn't be in your life you won't hurt them. You will pray for them. You will hope that they find their happiness and place in this world. You will want them to have the best life because love isn't about possession, fear or desperation. When you have a grasp on eternity you don't need to feel time is running out. Time is all you have. Love isn’t a game of musical chairs--grab a partner and sit down. It is a search for the right fit for your soul and life purpose. In a life that never ends you will either find the one that sees you as much as you see them, 0r who knows? Maybe, if there are such things as soulmates, God will introduce you, but keep you far enough apart, until each of you fulfill something more important for your growth or God’s plan. Regardless, when you can face eternity alone you will know what true love is and that letting go is not an insult to your soul. You can smile because the person you loved has your blessings of protection with them and God has your best interest also in mind. You will find that person to complete you because God wants you to, as much as you do.
— Shannon L. Alder
I had a strange feeling that Fate had in store for me exquisite joys and exquisite sorrows.
— Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
when you build your life on a foundation of your authentic truth ~ you are fulfilled with joy and enduring peace, you feel you, the person you are meant to be
— Angie karan
When you change your level of consciousness and awareness, the situation around you will change with joy.
— Debasish Mridha
Authentic joy is not a euphoric state or a feeling of being high. Rather, it is a state of appreciation that allows us to participate fully in our lives. We train in rejoicing in the good fortune of self and others.
— Pema Chödrön, The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times
I am in great mood.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Contentment is the joy of the soul.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I live loving life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
joy is not just about being happy. Joy is a rigorous spiritual practice of saying yes to life on life’s terms
— Mark Matousek, When You're Falling, Dive: Lessons in the Art of Living
Freedom begins in the mind of the individual. You'll never be able to do a particular thing if you don't navigate your thoughts positively. Complaining and neglecting to take action creates stagnation. Free your mind and the rest will follow.
— Amaka Imani Nkosazana, Heart Crush
My heart dances with joy when I think about you.
— Debasish Mridha
With resentment, hearts burn in the fire of hatred. With forgiveness, hearts dance with pure joy.
— Debasish Mridha
I have found in my travels that those who keep heaven in view remain serene and cheerful in the darkest day. Forward-looking Christians remain optimistic and joyful, knowing that Christ someday will rule.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
This “I” was made in the image of God for fellowship with God. Without God it is miserable, empty, confused, and frustrated. Without God life has no meaning; but with God at its center there is life, an inner strength and peace, a deep satisfaction, an unfading joy known only to those who know Jesus Christ.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
No matter what the climate is, what the troubles are, what the difficulties are, there is joy for the child of God, because joy is produced supernaturally by the Holy Spirit in us.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Without Him our daily routine would become tiresome and tedious, a drudgery rather than a joy.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Let your heart dance with joy and express that joy with your magical smile.
— Debasish Mridha
Only the forward-looking Christian remains sincerely optimistic and joyful, knowing that Christ will win in the end.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Without dark clouds in our lives we would never know the joy of sunshine. We can become callous and unteachable if we do not learn from pain.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
The ability to rejoice in any situation is a sign of spiritual maturity.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Pleasures are the things that appeal to our flesh and to our lust. But joy is something else. Joy runs deep.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
We have to be tuned to God. We will never be free from discouragement and despondency until we know and walk with the very fountainhead of joy.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
He had a powerful kind of ache inside of him, half joy, half terrible sadness.
— J.K. Rowling
I slipped my hand into hers. A strange and unfamiliar feeling ran through me. It felt like the ocean, like sunlight, like horses. Like love. I searched my mind and found the name for it. Joy.
— Kimberley Brubaker Bradley
It feels great, to work for what you want.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Enjoy this moment. This moment is your precious life.
— Debasish Mridha
Spring is here. Let’s sing with the flowers!
— Debasish Mridha
[As a young man] I sought thrills! I found them in Christ. I looked for something that would bring perfect joy! I found it in Christ. I looked for something that would bring pleasure and that would satisfy the deepest longing of my heart! I found it in Christ. And my life has never been the same.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
I don’t think anyone “finds” joy. Rather, we cultivate it by searching for the preciousness of small things, the ordinary miracles, that strengthen our hearts so we can keep them open to what is difficult
— Dawna Markova
Let us be the joy to find the joyLet us be the love to find the loveLet us be kind to find kindnessLet us be happy to find happiness.Let us be simple to find simplicityLet us be modest to find modestyLet us feel to comprehend Let us listen to understand Let us live our life to beLet us close our eyes to see.
— Debasish Mridha
O Lord, only you can satisfy my soul.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Be cheerful!
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
With every sunrise, I wake up with a deep driving desire to enhance the beauty of my life by becoming happy and joyful. I have found that when I am happy, everything around me dances with joy.
— Debasish Mridha
What a joy for those who trust in the Lord!
— Lailah Gifty Akita
A seagull flying beautifully is heaven; a seagull hunting an innocent fish is hell! Existence is heaven and hell, joy and horror!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Pour yourself completely into you and what brings you joy and moves you toward your goals. No one deserves your beautiful love and attention more than you!
— Sheri   Fink
After each of his books, the writer, for a while, feels once again that he can now die happy.
— Criss Jami, Healology
It is deep winter with shivering cold air, but my heart is dancing with joy and spring flowers.
— Debasish Mridha