32 Inspiring Quotes On Joy

In a world that often seems filled with challenges and uncertainties, finding joy can feel like a rare and precious gift. Joy is more than just a fleeting emotion; it's a state of mind and a choice we can make each day. To help you tap into this powerful and uplifting energy, we've curated a collection of 32 inspiring quotes on joy. These words of wisdom, drawn from a diverse range of voices, serve as gentle reminders of the beauty and wonder that surrounds us. Whether you're looking to spark a bit of happiness in your daily life or seeking deeper insights into the concept of joy, this selection is sure to inspire and uplift your spirit. Dive in and let these quotes guide you to a richer, more joyful existence.

1. “Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.” - Thich Nhat Hanh

2. “One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.” - Helen Keller

3. “My soul doth magnify the Lord,And my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Savior.” - Anonymous

4. “When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.” - Rumi

5. “There are random moments - tossing a salad, coming up the driveway to the house, ironing the seams flat on a quilt square, standing at the kitchen window and looking out at the delphiniums, hearing a burst of laughter from one of my children's rooms - when I feel a wavelike rush of joy. This is my true religion: arbitrary moments of of nearly painful happiness for a life I feel privileged to lead.” - Elizabeth Berg

6. “Laughter is wine for the soul - laughter soft, or loud and deep, tinged through with seriousness - the hilarious declaration made by man that life is worth living.” - Seán O'Casey

7. “The soul is like an uninhabited worldthat comes to life only whenGod lays His headagainst us.” - St. Thomas Aquinas

8. “Wait for that wisest of all counselores, Time.” - Pericles

9. “Love the animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled.” - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

10. “The glance embroiders in joy, knits in pain, and sews in boredom.When indifferent, the eye takes stills, when interested, movies.Laughter is regional: a smile extends over the whole face.” - Malcolm de Chazal

11. “I am seldom otherwise than happy while watching in the chamber of death... . I see a repose that neither earth nor hell can break, and I feel an assurance of the endless and shadowless hereafter--the Eternity they have entered--where life is boundless in its duration, and love in its sympathy, and joy in its fulness.” - Emily Brontë

12. “A month ago, Gavin had given his employer four weeks' notice. "I'll get a job around here," he'd told her. "Something low-stress, part-time, maybe. We're not paying rent, and Dad's left us plenty. You should quit, too." A year earlier this news would have filled her with delicious, full fat, chocolate-coated joy. But now, after a grueling routine of shitty work, shitty- weird home life in a house where the shadow of a dead boy walked more solidly than the grownups, shitty headaches, shitty worry about a husband who couldn't keep his dick out of other women, the golden offer just weirded Laine out. She didn't trust it.” - Stephen M. Irwin

13. “There is joy in self-forgetfulness. So I try to make the light in others' eyes my sun, the music in others' ears my symphony, the smile on others' lips my happiness.” - Helen Keller

14. “I'd rather laugh in a tent than cry in a palace.” - James Enns

15. “She tips back her head and howls: Moooooown! Oh wonderful moooooowwwwwyyyn!” - Carol Emshwiller

16. “Now some of you will say that the two are one and the same - happiness and joy - but this is not so. Happiness is a feeling. Happiness is fleeting, dependent on the moment, the circumstances, even the weather. Joy is transcendent, enduring, and, in the biblical context, is not an emotion. Joy is an attitude of the heart. Joy brings us peace, a refuge in the midst of troubles. God gives us joy through His Spirit. But the enemy tries to steal your joy and give you temporary happiness instead. Now, is there anything wrong with being happy? Nee, but it cannot last. So, you may wonder why I bring up the difference between these two - it is simple really. [...] marriage is sacred before the Lord, a decision for a lifetime, but too often I think young people look upon it as a source of happiness. Do not look at marriage this way. See it as a reservoir of joy, a deep, welling spring that endures the icy blast of temper, the bite of an angry word, the void of loneliness in a heart hungry for talk when there is no response. [...] Seek joy in each other, not happiness.” - Kelly Long

17. “We all struggle alone through the ten thousand joys and ten thousand sorrows of our lives.” - Elizabeth Kim

18. “God favors men and women who delight in being made worthy of happiness before the happiness itself.” - Criss Jami

19. “I do not care about happiness simply because I believe that joy is something worth fighting for.” - Criss Jami

20. “Look for Joy: that's God's echo, and his footprint. Happiness . . . happiness and wittiness and cleverness do not count for much when the darkness falls. Joy is tougher.” - Sean Stewart

21. “In fact no one recognizes the happiest moment of their lives as they are living it. It may well be that, in a moment of joy, one might sincerely believe that they are living that golden instant "now," even having lived such a moment before, but whatever they say, in one part of their hearts they still believe in the certainty of a happier moment to come. Because how could anyone, and particularly anyone who is still young, carry on with the belief that everything could only get worse: If a person is happy enough to think he has reached the happiest moment of his life, he will be hopeful enough to believe his future will be just as beautiful, more so.” - Orhan Pamuk

22. “Seek joyfulness when you can, for seeking joy leads to an auspicious atmosphere.” - Jonathan D. Spence

23. “The most beautiful is to see the joy in your eyes.” - Gregor Golob

24. “Where humanitysowed faith, hope, and unity, joy’s garden blossomed.” - Aberjhani

25. “Deep, contended joy comes from a place of complete security and confidence [in God] - even in the midst of trial.” - Swindoll Charles R.

26. “Joy is the reflex of terror.” - Victor Hugo

27. “All around Molly there flowed and flowered a light as impossible as snow set afire, while thousands of cloven hooves sang by like cymbals. She stood very still, neither weeping nor laughing, for her joy was too great for her body to understand.” - Peter S. Beagle

28. “I know there is poor and hideous suffering, and I've seen the hungry and the guns that go to war. I have lived pain, and my life can tell: I only deepen the wound of the world when I neglect to give thanks for early light dappled through leaves and the heavy perfume of wild roses in early July and the song of crickets on humid nights and the rivers that run and the stars that rise and the rain that falls and all the good things that a good God gives.” - Ann Voskamp

29. “I have no nameI am but two days old.-What shall I call thee?I happy amJoy is my name,-Sweet joy befell thee!Pretty joy!Sweet joy but two days old.Sweet joy I call thee:Thou dost smile.I sing the whileSweet joy befell thee.- "Infant Joy” - William Blake

30. “The joy you bring us is so much greater than the sadness we feel about your illness.” - John Green

31. “One of pleasures of parenting, future reader: parent can positively influence kid, make moment kid will remember for rest of life, moment that alters his/her trajectory, opens up his/her heart + mind.” - George Saunders

32. “Some people like to bitch, Rose said. Bitching is OK. But for me, I choose a kind of joy -- a lucid compulsion -- a polemical kind of fuck-you-motherfucker joy.” - Tom Spanbauer