Joy Quotes and Sayings

Joys do not stay, but take wing and fly away.

My mission in life is not only to enjoy life, but to help others to feel the joy of life.
– Debasish Mridha

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

The greatest joy is giving joy to others.

I do not care about happiness simply because I believe that joy is something worth fighting for.
– Criss Jami

Life will not last forever. Enjoy its beauty and joy while you are here.
– Debasish Mridha

If I can see pain in your eyes then share with me your tears. If I can see joy in your eyes then share with me your smile.

Joy came always after pain.
– Guillaume Apollinaire

When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.
– Rumi

When you feel someone else’s pain and joy as powerfully as if it were your own, then you know you really loved them.
– Ann Brashares

The joy in life is his who has the heart to demand it.
– Theodore Roosevelt

If your joy is derived from what society things of you, you’re always going to be disappointed.
– Madonna

A joyful heart is the normal result of a heart burning with love. She gives most who gives with joy.
– Mother Teresa

The simplest way to rejoice is to count your blessings and be grateful for them. You will automatically feel joy in your heart.

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

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

To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.
– Mark Twain

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
– Thich Nhat Hanh

Those caught up with little pleasures of life think they are happy, but actually miss the true pleasure that comes from fulfillment & everlasting joy.
– RVM

Each time we cooperate with God, we take one more giant step forward. Because when God asks us to change, it means that He always has something better to give us – more freedom, greater joy, and greater blessings.
– Joyce Meyer

Joy and bliss can come from the little and most unexpected thing if only we program our mind to enjoy these little things.
– RVM

Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how.
– James Russell Lowell

The most profound joy has more of gravity than of gaiety in it.
– Michel de Montaigne

Our purest form of joy comes when people we envy get hurt. That most genuine form of joy.
– Chuck Palahniuk

People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.
– Iris Murdoch

Joy multiplies when it is shared among friends, but grief diminishes with every division.
– R.A. Salvatore

Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day.
– Henri J.M. Nouwen

Return something not for the possibility of a reward, but for the joy of giving a gift which you did not have to pay for.
– Jarod Kintz

Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.
– Marianne Williamson

A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
– John Keats