50 Joy quotes to make your life more joyous!
A good and healthy life should include good physical and mental health. Both of them are interrelated. If you are healthy physically, you may also feel happy and mentally healthy. If your mental health is degrading your physiological aspect may also not feel upto the mark.
Hence, it is important to feel happy both ways and being Joyous is a crucial part of it. Here the best 20 quotes on joy, to make you feel more joyous, happy and healthy!
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Best Short Joy quotes
1. “Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.”
—Mother Teresa
2. “The most profound joy has more of gravity than of gaiety in it.”
—Michel de Montaigne
3. “The joy in life is to be used for a purpose. I want to be used up when I die.”
—George Bernard Shaw
4. “Joy in looking and comprehending is nature’s most beautiful gift.”
—Albert Einstein
5. “I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.”
—C. S. Lewis
6. “Things won are done, joy’s soul lies in the doing.”
—William Shakespeare
7. “A joyful heart is the inevitable result of a heart burning with love.”
—Mother Teresa
8. “There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.”
—Khalil Gibran
9. “The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.”
—Jim Rohn
10. “Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.”
—Leo Buscaglia
11. “Joy is not in things; it is in us.”
—Richard Wagner
12. “Accept that sorrow and strife are part of even a joyful life.”
—Cheryl Strayed
13. “I really try to enjoy life and have joy with what I do.”
—Tim Tebow
14. “Joy is the serious business of heaven.”
—C. S. Lewis
Long Happy and Joy quotes
15. “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
16. “Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.”
—Plato
17. “The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other’s life.”
—Richard Bach
18. “Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home . . . it’s your responsibility to love it, or change it.”
—Chuck Palahniuk
19. “This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.”
—George Bernard Shaw
20. “As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.”
—Helen Keller
21. “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
22. “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
23. “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
24. “No soul that seriously and constantly desires joy will ever miss it. Those who seek find. To those who knock it is opened.”
—C. S. Lewis
25. “Humans were so circular; they lived the same slow cycles of joy and misery over and over, never learning. Every lesson in the universe had to be taught billions of times, and it never stuck.”
—Maggie Stiefvater
26. “We chase wild dreams and long for all that eludes us, when the greatest joys are within our grasp, if we can only recognize them.”
—Ben Sherwood
27. “Joy is what happens when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things are. Joy is what happens when we see that God’s plan is perfect and we’re already staring in a perfect show.”
—Marianne Williamson
28. “I was assailed by memories of a life that wasn’t mine anymore, but one in which I’d found the simplest and most lasting joys.”
—Albert Camus
29. “God is full of love, joy and peace. Every religion has said that God is within us or we are a part of God so why do we think small?”
—Maddy Malhotra
30. “He now felt glad at having suffered sorrow and trouble, because it enabled him to enjoy so much better all the pleasure and happiness around him; for the great swans swam round the new-comer, and stroked his neck with their beaks, as a welcome.”
—Hans Christian Andersen
31. “The world is full of a lot of fear and a lot of negativity, and a lot of judgment. I just think people need to start shifting into joy and happiness. As corny as it sounds, we need to make a shift.”
—Ellen DeGeneres
32. “When you wear the weed of impatience in your heart instead of the flower Acceptance-with-Joy, you will always find your enemies get an advantage over you.”
—Hannah Hurnard
33. “They offer themselves so sweetly and confidently and willingly, even if it seems that there is no one to appreciate them. Just as though they sang a joyous little song to themselves, that it is so happy to love, even though one is not loved in return.”
—Hannah Hurnard
34. “The simple joy he felt at being once more a part of such familiar things also contained an element of strangeness and unreality. With a sharp stab of wonder he reminded himself, as he had done a hundred times in the last few weeks, that he had really come home again ”
—Thomas Wolfe
35. “Well, your greatest joy definitely comes from doing something for another, especially when it was done with no thought of something in return.”
—John Wooden
36. “If a thing is free to be good it is also free to be bad. And free will is what has made evil possible. Why, then, did God give them free will? Because free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having.”
—C. S. Lewis
37. “If you want to get warm you must stand near the fire: if you want to be wet you must get into the water. If you want joy, power, peace, eternal life, you must get close to, or even into, the thing that has them. They are not a sort of prize which God could, if He chose, just hand out to anyone.”
—C. S. Lewis
38. “All Joy reminds. It is never a possession, always a desire for something longer ago or further away or still ‘about to be’.”
—C. S. Lewis
Best Joy quotes to be at peace
39. “like the rainbow
after the rain
joy will reveal itself
after sorrow”
—Rupi Kaur
40. “There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road thereto.”
—Cormac McCarthy
41. “Into the void of silence, into the empty space of nothing, the joy of life is unfurled.”
—C. S. Lewis
42. “Joy bursts in our lives when we go about doing the good at hand and not trying to manipulate things and times to achieve joy.”
—C. S. Lewis
43. “If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.”
—Richard Bach
44. “The very nature of Joy makes nonsense of our common distinction between having and wanting.”
—C. S. Lewis
45. “Praise is the mode of love which always has some element of joy in it.”
—C. S. Lewis
46. “We embrace the spectrum of emotions, from the heights of transcendent joy to the depths of hatred and despair.”
—James Luceno
47. “Behold me, here I am; thy little handmaiden Acceptance-with-Joy and all that is in my heart is thine.”
—Hannah Hurnard
48. “Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.”
—Marianne Williamson
49. “Pleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within.”
—Eckhart Tolle
50. “Love, joy, and peace cannot flourish until you have freed yourself from mind dominance.”
—Eckhart Tolle
Bottom Line
Hope these quotes bought a smile on your face and new understanding to your knowledge about life. Wishing you and your family a life full of happiness and joy, and what not!
You may find joy in something and not in other things. Realise the true joy of your life, enjoy it and excel it. Stay empowered, Stay joyous!
