Top Joy Quotes

Today is the winter solstice. The planet tilts just so to its star, lists and holds circling in a fixed tension between veering and longing, and spins helpless, exalted, in and out of that fleet blazi...

Love is your greatest asset, fear is your greatest liability, and joy is your greatest reward.

Joy Definition

(n.) The passion or emotion excited by the acquisition or expectation of good; pleasurable feelings or emotions caused by success, good fortune, and the like, or by a rational prospect of possessing what we love or desire; gladness; exhilaration of spirits; delight.

(n.) That which causes joy or happiness.

(n.) The sign or exhibition of joy; gayety; mirth; merriment; festivity.

(n.) To rejoice; to be glad; to delight; to exult.

(v. t.) To give joy to; to congratulate.

(v. t.) To gladden; to make joyful; to exhilarate.

(v. t.) To enjoy.

Yesterday it was sun outside. The sky was blue and people were lying under blooming cherry trees in the park. It was Friday, so records were released, that people have been working on for years. Frien...

The joy of learning is as indispensable in study as breathing is in running. Where it is lacking there are no real students, but only poor caricatures of apprentices who, at the end of their apprentic...

The way of the consumerist culture is to spend so much energy chasing happiness that it has none left to be happy.

Unhappiness comes from living the life of two people--the one people want you to be and the one you want to be.

Always be grateful for life, love, and joy.

It's not my accent, but my brevity makes me stylish.

When you are no longer afraid is when you can be yourself.

The color-patches of vision part, shift, and reform as I move through space in time. The present is the object of vision, and what I see before me at any given second is a full field of color patches...

Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.

Blessed is the nightbird that sings for joy and not to be heard.

The joy of success lies in the process or journey -- not so much on the destination, because one destination opens the door for another. It's like the beauty of watching a blossoming flower ... a bird...

In the forty minutes I watched the muskrat, he never saw me, smelled me, or heard me at all. When he was in full view of course I never moved except to breathe. My eyes would move, too, following his,...

For every moment of suffering,Others will arriveThat will instead pierce you with joy.

My tears of joyhear the raindrops crying,as the rain never wants to pourdown on my cloudy dayswhen I makeour love-dreamsfor the sun to dreamonly for you....(From the poem "Only For You" By Munia Khan)

Most people are about as happy as their self confidence will allow them to be.

To have abundance, appreciate what you have with great love and share your possessions with joy.

Never justify someones wrong action, without them apologizing first & admitting their wrongs. If you do. You are not making them better, but you are making them worse on the bad things they do.

You will never know the purest love you can give a person, until the day you hurt because they hurt. You genuinely want them to succeed in life and be free from all the chains that keep them from bein...