4,580 Quotes About Joy

If we practice meditation, we can generate the energies of mindfulness and concentration. These energies will lead us to the insight that there is no birth and no death. We can truly remove our fear of death. When we understand that we cannot be destroyed, we are liberated from fear. It is a great relief. Non-fear is the ultimate joy.

Provò una gioia dolcissima perché gli sembrò che quelle prime parole che aveva scritto avessero il sapore del pane e il profumo di un buon rossetto.

And she shivered with a dazzled joy.

Emotions are reactions to outer circumstances, but feelings of Love, Peace and Joy come from within and are aspects of the real Self.

In some of us there’s a fire that burns too brightly. It makes us feel things differently, painfully—even great joy. To feed that fire too often, to make the flames too strong is to destroy yourself. Ye burn and burn and burn. ’Tis too painful to live that kind of life. Yet ’tis beautiful, too. Too beautiful for words or thought, too beautiful to look upon. Ye can climb to the heavens on the colors of those flames, but ye can also fall into darkness without end.

Forbid that I should walk through Thy beautiful world with unseeing eyes;Forbid that the lure of the market-place should ever entirely steal my heart away from the love of the open acres and the green trees;Forbid that under the low roof of workshop or office or study I should ever forget Thy great overarching sky:Forbid that when all Thy creatures are greeting the morning with songs and shouts of joy, I alone should wear a dull and sullen face.

Living a life of service brings me complete joy

Joy can solely inhabit the Now.

No matter the challenge that you face in life, your joy and happiness cannot be touched except you allow it.