Be Joyful!

Famous Quotes About Joy!

• "Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though t'were his own." ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• "Joy is the feeling of grinning inside." ~ Melba Colgrove
• "Joy is not in things; it is in us." ~ Richard Wagner
• "There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward." ~ Kahlil Gibran
• "The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just recently fallen in love is undisguisable." ~ John Cheever
• "He who has not looked on Sorrow will never see Joy." ~ Kahlil Gibran
• "I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy." ~ C.S. Lewis
• "I do it for the joy it brings, cause I'm a joyful girl. 'Cause the world owes us nothing, we owe each other the world." ~ Ani Difranco
• "You shall have joy, or you shall have power, said God; you shall not have both" ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
• "Cheerfulness is the very flower of health." ~ Proverb

• "A joy shared is a joy doubled"
• "Joy is increased by spreading it to others" ~ Robert Murray McCheyne
• "Joy delights in Joy" ~ William Shakesphere
• "Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy." ~ Joseph Campbell
• "When you wish someone joy, you wish them peace, love, prosperity, happiness... all the good things." ~ Maya Angelo
• "The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy." ~ Henry Ward Beecher
• "One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others." ~ Robert Heinlein
• "One joy shatters a hundred griefs" ~ Chinese Proverbs
• "Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift." ~ Albert Einstein
• "Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow" ~ Helen Keller

• "Nothing I've ever done has given me more joys and rewards than being a father to my children." ~ Bill Cosby
• "Joy comes from using your potential." ~ Will Schultz
• "Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow" ~ Swedish Proverb
• "A sense of humor... is needed armor. Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life." ~ Hugh Sidey
• "Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by." ~ Carl Sandburg
• "Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose." ~ Charles Du Bos
• "Joy can be real only if people look upon their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness" ~ Leo Tolstoy
• "No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy today, mix good cheer with friends today enjoy it and bless God for it." ~ Henry Ward Beecher
• "There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something." ~ Henry Ford
• "There is no hope of joy except in human relations." ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery

• "If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same time, because a dose of joy is a spiritual cure." ~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
• "Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it." ~ Greg Anderson
• "For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair." ~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh
• "Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph." ~ William Butler Yeats
• "There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make us rejoice" ~ John Calvin
• "There are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind them when they go." ~ Jean Paul Richter
• "I'm delirious with joy. It proves that if you confront the universe with good intentions in your heart, it will reflect that and reward your intent. Usually. It just doesn't always do it in the way you expect." ~ J. Michael Straczynski
• "There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behaviour, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
• "Sorrow is brief but joy is endless" ~ Friedrich von Schiller
• "I have always tried to hide my efforts and wished my works to have a light joyousness of springtime which never lets anyone suspect the labors it has cost me." ~ Henri Matisse