Joy Quotes

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Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
Joseph Campbell

Pain, Find, Place

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

Mind, Thoughts, Become

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

Success, Happiness, Happy

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.
Barbara de Angelis

Love, Powerful, Enough

Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.
Lao Tzu

Health, Greatest, Confidence

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

Life, Today, Fun

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
Albert Einstein

Art, Knowledge, Teacher

When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself.
Tecumseh

Life, Morning, Strength

Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.
Albert Einstein

Nature, Beautiful, Looking

We need to give each other the space to grow, to be ourselves, to exercise our diversity. We need to give each other space so that we may both give and receive such beautiful things as ideas, openness, dignity, joy, healing, and inclusion.
Max de Pree

Beautiful, May, Give

When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
Khalil Gibran

Truth, Heart, Deep

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True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Happiness, True, Done

The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.
Richard Bach

Life, Family, Respect

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

Life, Happiness, Morning

Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
Mother Teresa

Love, Catch, Souls

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.
Khalil Gibran

Love, Work, Made

I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.
Rabindranath Tagore

Life, Service, Dreamt

Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain

Humor, Human, Everything

As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.
Helen Keller

Love, Mind, Vision

Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
Mark Twain

Care, Value, Somebody

A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.
John Keats

Beauty, Forever, Pass

A sense of humor... is needed armor. Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life.
Hugh Sidey

Life, Humor, Good

The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow; there is no humor in Heaven.
Mark Twain

Humor, Secret, Sorrow

Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind.
William Shakespeare

Love, Mind, Blind

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.
Helen Keller

Brave, Learn, Patient

The game of basketball has been everything to me. My place of refuge, place I've always gone where I needed comfort and peace. It's been the site of intense pain and the most intense feelings of joy and satisfaction. It's a relationship that has evolved over time, given me the greatest respect and love for the game.
Michael Jordan

Love, Peace, Time

If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough.
Audrey Hepburn

Home, Sadness, Father

Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home... it's your responsibility to love it, or change it.
Chuck Palahniuk

Love, Change, Home

The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.
Helen Keller

Experience, Human, Dark

Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Happiness, Good, Giving

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