4,580 Quotes About Joy

Why didn't I think of that before!" Most difficult problems often have simplest solutions and they exist right under your nose. Defocus your mind once in a while. Give time to the things that you consider unimportant.

O boatman! Enjoy your skills and touch the river of life in your own unique ways. She will reward you with the treasures that you can't imagine.Those who are in a mad rush of reaching somewhere die empty handed, for the river is endless and time is a trap.

Someone who is learning driving takes joy in the knowledge of driving. Someone who is on a long drive takes joy in the soulful experience of driving. Don't remain stuck in the knowledge. You are here for the experience.

Is it the killing you wish you could take back, or the joy of the killing?

Joy is born in service, misery is born in selfishness.

Society teaches you to find joy in the benefit of the self, as a result everyone grows up to be miserable, for the more you seek joy for yourself the more joy runs away from you, but the moment you forget the self and walk down the path of service to benefit others, joy comes running after you.

It's easier to live disappointed than it is to feel disappointed. It feels more vulnerable to dip in and out of disappointment than to just set up a camp there. You sacrifice joy, but you suffer less pain.

One of the small joys of adulthood was moving at her own speed.

She had not lived by the sea all those years, listened to the wharfman's songs all that time, to spend her life in the soundless cave of Elihue's mind.