Quotes on Joy

Ash Wednesday is full of joy...The source of all sorrow is the illusion that of ourselves we are anything but dust.

I will find new meaning in every joy and sorrow.

Every day is a renewal, every morning the daily miracle. This joy you feel is life.

Gratitude is the confidence in life itself... As gratitude grows it gives rise to joy. We experience the courage to rejoice in our own good fortune and in the good fortune of others... We can be joyful for people we love, for moments of goodness, for sunlight and trees, and for the very breath within our lungs. Like an innocent child, we can rejoice in life itself, in being alive.

Joy is a marvelous increasing of what exists, a pure addition out of nothingness.

What I suddenly understood was that a thank-you note isn't the price you pay for receiving a gift, as so many children think it is, a kind of minimum tribute or toll, but an opportunity to count your blessings. And gratitude isn't what you give in exchange for something; it's what you feel when you are blessed--blessed to have family and friends who care about you, and who want to see you happy. Hence the joy from thanking.

Your vocation in life is where your greatest joy meets the world's greatest need.

Never let anything so fill you with sorrow as to make you forget the joy of Christ risen.

Soccer is a feast for the eyes that watch it and a joy for the body that plays it

Anger is remembered pain, fear is anticipated pain, guilt is self directed pain, depression is depletion of energy. Cure-return to love& joy

Our life is...a time in which sadness and joy kiss each other at every moment.

All we really want is love's confusing joy.

Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.

If you can forgive the person you were, accept the person you are, and believe in the person you will become, you are headed for joy. So celebrate your life.

Life is art. Art is life. I never separate it. I don’t feel that much anger. I equally have a lot of joy.

The highest happiness, the purest joys of life, wear out at last.

A journal, is a book that shall contain a record of all your joy, your ecstasy, what you are grateful for.

The fault finder will find faults even in paradise and thereby miss the joys that recognition of the positives bring.

With so many thousand joys, is it not black ingratitude to call the world a place of sorrow and torment?

He who has not looked on Sorrow will never see Joy. [for without sorrow how would you know what joy is? Contrast provides peceptive clarity]

We possess our body by chance and we are already pleased with it. If our physical bodies went through ten thousand transformations without end, how incomparable would this joy be! Therefore the sage roams freely in the realm in which nothing can escape, but all endures.