4,580 Quotes About Joy

A good word maketh the heart glad.

He had never encountered a patient who did not secretly enjoy a microscopic examination of his life. And the greater the power of magnification, the more the patient enjoyed it. The joy of being observed ran so deep that Breuer believed the real pain of old age, bereavement, outliving one’s friends, was the absence of scrutiny—the horror of living an unobserved life.

But to be close to a child, for whom one spent everything, whose life was protected and nourished by one’s own, to have that child beside one, at peace, was the real, the deepest, the only joy.

Life is about the journey, about the splendor of living in the moment, about the happiness that ensues from the sheer joy of being alive.

Contentment leads to cheerfulness.

A song in your soul will erase any sorrow.

If God is pleased to add another day, we should welcome it with glad hearts.- Seneca

To be content is to be cheerful.

Jeolousy leads to lack of joy.