The key to leading a more joyous life is through positive thinking and maintaining a good mindset! While this may seem easier said than done, some words of cheer and motivation give you an extra boost of joy. Like those in our below list of the 45 Most Heartwarming Quotes About Joy.
We’re well into the New Year and thus, it is time to make a resolution within ourselves to strive for total peace and harmony. By keeping positive thoughts, you know, the ones that put a smile upon your face, then you see the world with a whole new perspective.
May our quotes help you bring more joy and joyous moments into your life this year.
Quotes about Joy
1. “Happiness is like a kiss. You must share it to enjoy it.” — Bernard Meltzer
2. “Life doesn’t have to be perfect to be filled with joy.” — Author Unknown
3. “Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.” — Thich Nhat Hanh
4. “The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.” — Dolly Parton
5. “Find ecstasy in life: the mere sense of living is joy enough.” — Emily Dickinson
6. “They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.” — Tom Bodett
7. “There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.” — Edith Wharton
8. “Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day.” — Henri Nouwen
9. “Without pain, how could we know joy?’ This is an old argument in the field of thinking about suffering and its stupidity and lack of sophistication could be plumbed for centuries but suffice it to say that the existence of broccoli does not, in any way, affect the taste of chocolate.” — John Green
10. “Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it.” — Dennis P. Kimbro
11. “Go find your joy. Whatever that is, go find your joy. Are you going to have a good day or are you going to have a great day? Because it’s completely up to you.” — Sandra Bullock
12. “The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.” — Nicolas Chamfort
13. “Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing”. — Camille Pissarro
14. “If you carry joy in your heart, you can heal any moment.” — Carlos Santana
15. “To have joy in your heart, one must know how to appreciate the small things in life.” — Unknown Author
16. “When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.” — Rumi
17. “I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls.” — Audrey Hepburn
18. “Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.” — Joseph Campbell
19. “Laughter is a wine for the soul – laughter soft, or loud and deep, tinged through with seriousness – the hilarious declaration made by man that life is worth living.” — Sean O’Casey
20. “The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, they must be felt with the heart.” — Helen Keller
21. “Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home. It’s your responsibility to love it, or change it.” — Chuck Palahniuk
22. “Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.” — Thich Nhat Hanh
23. “A smile is a happiness you’ll find right under your nose.” — Tom Wilson
24. “When we are centered in joy, we attain our wisdom.” — Marianne Williamson
25. “I have drunken deep of joy, And I will taste no other wine tonight.” — Percy Bysshe Shelley
26. “I’m trying to find a little joy and happiness, a lot of giggles, and maybe some pretty shoes.” — Tracee Ellis Ross
27. “Joy; the kind of happiness that doesn’t depend on what happens.” — David Steindl-Rast
28. “You are wrong if you think Joy emanates only or principally from human relationships. God has placed it all around us. It is in everything and anything we might experience. We just have to have the courage to turn against our habitual lifestyle and engage in unconventional living. My point is that you do not need me or anyone else around to bring this new kind of light in your life. It is simply waiting out there for you to grasp it, and all you have to do is reach for it. The only person you are fighting is yourself and your stubbornness to engage in new circumstances.” — Jon Krakauer
29. “Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.” — Marcel Proust
30. “Learning to love yourself first brings more joy and peace than trying to love someone else.” — Author Unknown
31. “Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place. It pulls up the rotten roots so that new roots hidden beneath have room to grow. Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place.” — Rumi
32. “Perfect happiness is a beautiful sunset, the giggle of a grandchild, the first snowfall. It’s the little things that make happy moments, not the grand events. Joy comes in sips, not gulps.” — Sharon Draper
33. “Where there is love, there is joy.” — Mother Teresa
34. “Keep your best wishes, close to your heart and watch what happens” — Tony DeLiso
35. “Joy is prayer; joy is strength: joy is love; joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.” — Mother Teresa
36. “She found joy and wonder in every little thing. And joy and wonder always found her.” — Katrina Mayer
37. “He was mastered by the sheer surging of life, the tidal wave of being, the perfect joy of each separate muscle, joint, and sinew in that it was everything that was not death, that it was aglow and rampant, expressing itself in movement, flying exultantly under the stars.” — Jack London
38. “Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.” — Eleanor Roosevelt
39. “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
40. “Dare to love yourself as if you were a rainbow with gold at both ends.” — Aberjhani
41. “The best way to choose what to keep and what to throw away is to take each item in one’s hand and ask: “Does this spark joy?” If it does, keep it.” — Marie Kondo
42. “Innovation comes from people who take joy in their work.” — W. Edwards Deming
43. “If I can see the pain in your eyes then share with me your tears. If I can see the joy in your eyes then share with me your smile.” — Santosh Kalwar
44. “Love. Joy. Peace. Patience. Kindness. Goodness. Faithfulness. Gentleness, and self-control. To these, I commit my day.” — Unknown Author
45. “According to Vedanta, there are only two symptoms of enlightenment, just two indications that a transformation is taking place within you toward a higher consciousness. The first symptom is that you stop worrying. Things don’t bother you anymore. You become light-hearted and full of joy. The second symptom is that you encounter more and more meaningful coincidences in your life, more and more synchronicities. And this accelerates to the point where you actually experience the miraculous.” — Deepak Chopra
46. “Whether you know or not, you are the infinite potential of love, peace, and joy.” — Annie Ray
47. “I slept and dreamt that life was a joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was a joy.” — Tagore
48. “If we can just let go and trust that things will work out the way they’re supposed to, without trying to control the outcome, then we can begin to enjoy the moment more fully. The joy of the freedom it brings becomes more pleasurable than the experience itself.” — Goldie Hawn
49. “Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.” — Marianne Williamson
50. “There are random moments – tossing a salad, coming up the driveway to the house, ironing the seams flat on a quilt square, standing at the kitchen window and looking out at the delphiniums, hearing a burst of laughter from one of my children’s rooms – when I feel a wavelike rush of joy. This is my true religion: arbitrary moments of of nearly painful happiness for a life I feel privileged to lead.” — Elizabeth Berg
Summary
As quoted by Jodi Picoult, “Words are like nets – we hope they’ll cover what we mean, but we know they can’t possibly hold that much joy, or grief, or wonder!”
You see, regardless of what is going on in your life, having a joyous heart is the key to true happiness. May the above 50 Heartwarming Quotes About Joy ignite your inner spark and help bring about the peace in which you so desire.
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