Joy Quotes and Happy Sayings
Our bundle of joy quotes and happy sayings will have you jumping for, er, …joy! If you’re feeling down, a quick read through our collection may have you on cloud nine.
You may be walking in the air, over the moon, and in seventh heaven. And, if not that, hopefully, you’ll be smarter and feel better. Enjoy.
Best Joy Quotes
1.) When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.
Rumi
2.) Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
Joseph Campbell
3.) A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us.
Orison S. Marden
4.) 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
5.) A joyful heart is the normal result of a heart burning with love. She gives most who gives with joy.
Mother Teresa
Good Joy Quotes
6.) To get joy, we must give it and to keep joy, we must scatter it.
John Templeton
7.) There is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.
Christopher McCandless
8.) When you wish someone joy, you wish them peace, love, prosperity, happiness – all the good things.
Maya Angelou
9.) You don’t have the power to make life fair, but you do have the power to make life joyful.
Jonathan Lockwood Huie
10.) True generosity doesn’t just come out of altruism or philanthropy – it comes out of joy.
Rene Schlaepfer
11.) It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory and in creative action that man finds his supreme joys.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
12.) Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
Mother Teresa
Joyful Quotations
13.) This is the most joyful day that ever I saw in my pilgrimage on earth.
Donald Cargill
14.) The joyful heart sees and reads the world with a sense of freedom and graciousness.
John O’Donohue
15.) A joyful spirit is evidence of a grateful heart.
Maya Angelou
16.) My joy is watching people being joyful.
Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki
17.) There is a land of pure delight, Where saints immortal reign; infinite day excludes the night, and pleasures banish pain.
Isaac Watts
18.) In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider.
Solomon
19.) The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
E. E. Cummings
20.) The essence of life is not in the great victories and grand failures but in the simple joys.
Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Exuberance
21.) I have the opportunity, once more to right some wrongs, to pray for peace, to plant some trees, and to sing more joyful songs.
William Arthur Ward
22.) Joy is the highest expression of love.
Abraham-Hicks
23.) Now and then it’s good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.
Guillaume Apollinaire
24.) Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes better friends with ourselves and everybody around.
Orison Marden
25.) 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
26.) 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 sunrise.
William Blake
Inspiring Joy Quotes
27.) This day and your life are God’s gift to you – so give thanks and be joyful always.
James M. Beggs
28.) Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.
Franklin Roosevelt
29.) A joyful life is an individual creation that cannot be copied from a recipe.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
30.) A man’s delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance.
Arthur Schopenhauer
31.) To these I commit my day. If I succeed, I will give thanks. If I fail, I will seek his grace. And then, when this day is done, I will place my head on my pillow and rest.
Max Lucado
32.) The joy we feel has little to do with the circumstances of our live and everything to do with the focus of our lives.
Russell M. Nelson
Short Joy Quotes
33.) Joy, the kind of happiness that doesn’t depend on what happens.
David Steindl-Rast
34.) Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.
Leo Buscaglia
35.) Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.
Hellen Keller
36.) A flower blossoms for its own joy.
Oscar Wilde
37.) The root of joy is gratefulness.
David Steindl-Rast
38.) Joy is the serious business of Heaven.
C.S. Lewis
39.) Comparison is the thief of joy.
Theodore Roosevelt
40.) Figure out what fuels your joy, then do lots of that.
Bob Goff
41.) Do few things but do them well, simple joys are holy.
Francis of Assisi
Joyous Bible Quotes
42.) Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance.
James 1:2-3
43.) For his anger is but for a moment, and his favor is for a lifetime. Weeping may tarry for the night, but joy comes with the morning.
Psalm 30:5
44.) Go, eat your food with gladness, and drink your wine with a joyful heart, for God has already approved what you do.
Ecclesiastes 9:7
45.) So also you have sorrow now, but I will see you again, and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take your joy from you.
John 16:22
46.) The prospect of the righteous is joy, but the hopes of the wicked come to nothing.
Proverbs 10:28
47.) For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking but of righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.
Roman 14:17
Choose Joy Quotes
48.) We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.
Joseph Campbell
49.) Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow.
Helen Keller
50.) At every moment of our life, we have an opportunity to choose joy.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
51.) Choose joy: Because happiness isn’t enough.
Kay Warren
52.) The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other’s life.
Richard Bach
53.) 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
Elation Quotes
54.) Joy lies in the fight, in the attempt, in the suffering involved, not in the victory itself.
Mahatma Gandhi
55.) The true spirit of delight…is to be found in mathematics as surely as in poetry.
Bertrand Russell
56.) I define joy as a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace – a connection to what matters.
Oprah Winfrey
57.) Perhaps most important, being in a state of joy is a learned skill, not an innate ability.
Donald Altman
58.) Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
59.) The challenge before us is to savor the unknown and delight in the taste of possibility.
Mary Anne Radmacher
60.) Joy is a choice based on being content regardless of circumstances.
M. Ahlers
61.) Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.
Emily Dickinson
62.) Open your arms and welcome the joy of today.
Unknown
Inspirational Joy Quotes
63.) To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.
Mark Twain
64.) True education flowers at the point when delight falls in love with responsibility.
Philip Pullman
65.) Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home… it’s your responsibility to love it, or change it.
Chuck Palahniuk
66.) Real elation is when you feel you could touch a star without standing on tiptoe.
Doug Larson
67.) The soul’s joy lies in doing.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
68.) Sorrow prepares you for joy.
Rumi
69.) Go forth into the busy world and love it. Interest yourself in its life; mingle kindly with its joys and sorrows.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
70.) To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child’s delight added to your own – this is happiness.
J. B. Priestley
Joie de Vivre Sayings
71.) If you carry joy in your heart, you can heal at any moment.
Carlos Santana
72.) Anywhere everywhere! Anything anyhow! just dance.
Rajneesh
73.) Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others and the delight in the recognition.
Alexander Smith
74.) Joy is increased by spreading it to others.
Robert Murray McCheyne
75.) Let your joy be in your journey—not in some distant goal.
Tim Cook
76.) The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.
Jim Rohn
77.) And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
Khalil Gibran
78.) The joy that isn’t shared dies young.
Anne Sexton
Sayings About Joy
79.) Joy is you at the deepest level, and your joy is one with the infinite, timeless joy of this unbound universe.
Robert Ellwood
80.) Joy is what happens when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things are. Joy is not necessarily what happens when things unfold according to our plans.
Marianne Williamson
81.) The soul of sweet delight can never be defiled.
William Blake
82.) There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.
Khalil Gibran
83.) Elation and pain are experiences that make you realize you are alive.
Darren Hayes
84.) Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
Nhat Hanh
85.) Praise with elation Praise every morning Spring’s re-creation Of the First Day!
Eleanor Farjeon
86.) Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.
Marianne Williamson
87.) Intelligence is nothing without delight.
Paul Claudel
88.) Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men but from doing something worthwhile.
Wilfred Grenfell
89.) When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.
Buddha
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Bliss Quotes
90.) There are days when simply seeing feels like happiness itself… You feel so rich, the elation seems almost excessive and you want to share it.
Robert Doisneau
91.) There’s a great joy in my giving. It’s thrilling; it’s exhilarating. It’s important to be a part of sharing.
W. Clement Stone
92.) Few delights can equal the presence of one whom we trust utterly.
George MacDonald
93.) We have to embrace obstacles to reach the next stage of joy.
Goldie Hawn
94.) Beauty is the bait with which delight allures man to enlarge his kind.
Socrates
95.) The more the heart is sated with joy, the more it becomes insatiable.
Gabrielle Roy
96.) We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
97.) One should be either sad or joyful. Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers.
Eugene O’Neill
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The Happiness of Life Quotations
98.) The joy of life consists in the exercise of one’s energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience.
Aleister Crowley
99.) This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one.
George Bernard Shaw
100.) The ghostly winter silence had given way to the great spring murmur of awakening life. This murmur arose from all the land, fraught with the joy of living.
Jack London
101.) 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 sunrise.
William Blake
102.) Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life’s deepest joy: true fulfillment.
Tony Robbins
103.) A joyful life isn’t about others; it’s about the brightness that is associated with being alive. Your path to it is through anything that replaces thinking with pure flight, pure joy.
Martha Beck
By Michael O’Halloran
Michael O’Halloran founded Greeting Card Poet in 2014 and has worked as its publisher and editor ever since. He has co-authored four books on kids’ trivia and four on coaching. Previously, Michael was the president of Magnetic Poetry. He has invented and brought to market over 75 new gift and toy products, most of which involve wordplay. Mike is married and a father of four daughters.
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