4,580 Quotes About Joy

The more stuff you love the happier you will be.

...which is simply called sharing what we love, what we find beautiful, which is an ethics.

Is sorrow the true wild?And if it is—and if we join them—your wild to mine—what’s that?For joining, too, is a kind of annihilation. What if we joined our sorrows, I’m saying. I’m saying: What if that is joy?

May there always be light in your life to guide you, making your life journey full of joy and wonder.

I live to shew his power, who once did bring My joyes to weep, and now my griefs to sing

Self-pity is the mother of misery, bearing first a small pain, then eventually growing to consume all the joy we could have experienced. Reject self-pity and choose joy as quickly as possible.

Joy is a man's passage from a lesser to a greater perfection.

The point of prayer is to get above the circumstances. To tap into the joy that is always there, no matter what the circumstances.

So today I’m recalling the utility, the need, of my own essayettes to emerge from such dailiness, and in that way to be a practice of witnessing one’s delight, of being in and with one’s delight, daily, which actually requires vigilance. It also requires faith that delight will be with you daily, that you needn’t hoard it. No scarcity of delight.