4,580 Quotes About Joy

Vision without execution is delusion. The joy is in the results

Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow.

Remember that your natural state is joy.

Cultivate your garden… Do not depend upon teachers to educate you … follow your own bent, pursue your curiosity bravely, express yourself, make your own harmony… In the end, education, like happiness, is individual, and must come to us from life and from ourselves. There is no way; each pilgrim must make his own path. "Happiness," said Chamfort, "is not easily won; it is hard to find it in ourselves, and impossible to find it elsewhere.

The conventionality of the English is something I find unattractive - the whole lack of joy in the physical.

You can be happy if you know this secret: Some things are within your power to control and some things are not.

Thought Has joys apart, even in blackest woe, And seizing some fine thread of verity Knows momentary godhead.

Let thy chief terror be of thine own soul: There, 'mid the throng of hurrying desires That trample o'er the dead to seize their spoil, Lurks vengeance, footless, irresistible As exhaltations laden with slow death, And o'er the fairest troop of captured joys Breathes pallid pestilence.

At this and every season, our Savior invites us to join with HIM and others to offer the priceless gift of JOY.