Joy Quotes

I have drunken deep of joy, And I will taste no other wine tonight.

Nobody understands another's sorrow, and nobody another's joy.

To be aflame with silence, with joy, is wisdom. It is not through logic but through love. It is not through words but through a wordless state called meditation or a state of no-mind, satori, samadhi.

Your readiest desire is your path to joy... even if it destroys you.

Never underestimate the joy people derive from hearing something they already know.

Live in joy, in love, even among those who hate.

I want the joy of knowing that I am doing something with my life, the joy of battle.

Joy is wealth and love is the legal tender of the soul.

To pursue joy is to lose it. The only way to get it is to follow steadily the path of duty.

Moment after moment everything comes out of nothingness. This is the true joy of life.

The momentary thrill of getting rarely equals the lasting joy of giving.

There is joy in work.

Happiness lies in making others happy, in forsaking self-interest to bring joy to others.

Joy is not necessarily the absence of suffering, it is the presence of God.

There is a joy in sorrow which none but a mourner can know.

The body grows by food and work, the mind by use, and the soul through joy and pain.

You find true joy and happiness in life when you give and give and go on giving and never count the cost.

If you really want to receive joy and happiness, then serve others with all your heart. Lift their burden, and your own burden will be lighter.

You're a happy fellow, for you'll give happiness and joy to many other people. There is nothing better or greater than that.

Anger devours almost all other good emotions. It deadens the soul. It numbs the heart to joy and gratitude and hope and tenderness and compassion and kindness.

If you are not living in joy, you are out of integrity with your soul.

One of the greatest things in human life is the ability to make plans. Even if they never come true-the joy of anticipating is irrevocably yours. That way one can live many more than just one life.

The greatest joys of life are happy memories. Your job is to create as many of them as possible.

I want to continue to encourage as many people as I can to open their hearts to life, because if I know anything for sure, it's that opening my own heart is what has brought me my greatest success and joy.

Genius, apart from natural sensitiveness, is prone equally to unreasoning joy and to bitterest morbidness.

The quietest poetry can be an explosion of joy.

No joy can equal the joy of serving others.

In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.

You don't have to wait for something 'meaningful' to come into your life so that you can finally enjoy what you do. There is more meaning in joy than you will ever need. The 'waiting to start living' syndrome is one of the most common delusions of the unconscious state.

Are you jealous of the ocean’s generosity? Why would you refuse to give this joy to anyone? Fish don’t hold the sacred liquid in cups! They swim the huge fluid freedom.

A dog wakens your heart to joy and companionship.

Those who rhapsodize about the ease and joy of childhood have perhaps forgotten what it's like to be 12 years old.

Like the ocean that remains calm in its depths even when waves rage over its surface, and like the sun that continues shining on high even during storms, we can at each moment create value and develop our state of life, enjoying our existence to the fullest in times of both suffering and joy.

When you have emptied all content - thoughts, desires, memories, projections, hopes - when all is gone, for the first time you find yourself, because you are nothing but that pure space, that virgin space within you. Unburdened by anything, that contentless consciousness, that's what you are! Seeing it, realizing it, one is free. One is freedom, one is joy, one is bliss.

The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.

When you wish someone joy, you wish them peace, love, prosperity, happiness... all the good things.

Enjoy your life. No curse hangs over you, nor did it ever. No devil chases after your soul. Sing and dance and be merry.

Compassion has nothing to do with achievement at all. It is spacious and very generous. When a person develops real compassion, he is uncertain whether he is being generous to others or to himself because compassion is enviromental generosity, without direction, without " for me" and without " for them". It is filled with joy, spontaneously existing joy, constant joy in the sense of trust, in the sense that joy contains tremendous wealth, richness.

Those who have not found their true wealth, which is the radiant joy of Being and the deep, unshakable peace that comes with it, are beggars, even if they have great material wealth. They are looking outside for scraps of pleasure or fulfillment, for validation, security, or love, while they have a treasure within that not only includes all those things but is infinitely greater than anything the world can offer.

Love is not greedy or self-seeking, but pure, faithful and genuinely free, open to others, respectful of their dignity, seeking their good, radiating joy and beauty.

Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.

Live for today, but hold your hands open to tomorrow. Anticipate the future and its changes with joy. There is a seed of God's love in every event, every unpleasant situation in which you may find yourself.

What is the essence of evil? It is forsaking a living fountain for broken cisterns. God gets derision and we get death. They are one: choosing sugarcoated misery we mock the lifegiving God. It was meant to be another way: God's glory exalted in our everlasting joy.

The soul of one who serves God always swims in joy, always keeps holiday, is always in her palace of jubilation, ever singing with fresh ardor and fresh pleasure a new song of joy and love.

If you are a taker of happiness you get misery, if you are a giver of happiness you get joy and love.

What was time itself but the bloom, the sheath enfolding experience? Within time, and with time alone, there was life - the gleam, the quiver, the heartbeat, the immeasurable joy and anguish of being.

When you learn to love your physical body, every activity can become a ritual of gratitude where you fully express the joy to be alive!

There is no joy other than the joy of creating. There is no man who is truly alive other than one who is creating. All others are just shadows on the earth with nothing to do with being alive. The joy of living, whether it is love or action, is the joy of creating.

I love to think of the whole universe together as one eternal fact. I love to think that everything is alive; that crystallization is itself a step toward joy. I love to think that when a bud bursts into blossom: it feels a thrill. I love to have the universe full of feeling and full of joy, and not full of simple dead, inert matter, managed by an old bachelor for all eternity.

The joy of the creative process, minute by minute, hour after hour, day by day, is the sublime path to true happiness.