Discover the most popular and inspiring quotes and sayings on the topic of Joy. Share them with your friends on social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, or your personal blogs, and let the world be inspired by their powerful messages. Here are the Top 100 Joy Quotes And Sayings by 90 Authors including Paul Tillich,Lailah Gifty Akita,Henry David Thoreau,Toba Beta,Benjamin Franklin for you to enjoy and share.

Joy is the emotional expression of the courageous YES to one's own true being. -- Paul Tillich

The joy is the journey of Life. -- Lailah Gifty Akita

Surely joy is the condition of life. -- Henry David Thoreau

Be careful with too much joy,
it can make you numb in life. -- Toba Beta

Joy doesn't exist in the world, it exists in us. -- Benjamin Franklin

Joy is not a thing, it is in us. -- Charles Wagner

Joy doesn't exist out in the world somewhere. Joy is an inside job. -- Lynn A. Robinson

Joy is innermost peace. -- Lailah Gifty Akita

What is joy? Joy is nothing but the Self. When desires are fulfilled, the mind is stilled. This allows the Self to shine forth and that is what we call joy. -- Lester Levenson

Joy is the realest reality, the fullest life, and joy is always given, never grasped. God gives gifts and I give thanks and I unwrap the gift given: joy. -- Ann Voskamp

Our true joy is like those sunglasses we've been looking for all over, suddenly realizing they've been propped on our head during our entire search. They're already there, quietly waiting for us to reach up and realize they were never lost at all. -- Kelly Corbet

Joy comes from using your potential. -- Will Schultz

Joy is something we receive - not something we earn. -- Holley Gerth

Joy is a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace - a connection to what matters. -- Oprah Winfrey

Joy is found when you focus your energy on improving human dignity, human capacity and human values. -- Amit Ray

Joy is the grace we say to God. -- Ray Bradbury

A joy as intense as pain -- Nicholas Sparks

False joy, because you are merely
in time, as they say, and not in the soul! -- Juan Ramon Jimenez

Contentment is the greatest joy. -- Lailah Gifty Akita

Joy is a perception of elation which keeps us moving with life. -- Debasish Mridha

Joy does not come from what you do, it flows into what you do and thus into this world from deep within you. -- Eckhart Tolle

JOY is in the JOurneY, not the destination. -- Cindy Arledge

Joy is the settled assurance that God is in control of all the details of my life, the quiet confidence that ultimately everything is going to be all right, and the determined choice to praise God in all things. -- Kay Warren

Let's live in a joy. -- Deyth Banger

Joy is our
native condition
Let go all non-joy
and there is joy -- Ulf Wolf

Joy is based on the spiritual knowledge that, while the world in which we live is shrouded in darkness, God has overcome the world. -- Henri J.m. Nouwen

Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day. -- Henri J.m. Nouwen

Joy is the outcome of detachment from self and lives in freedom of spirit. -- Anonymous

To have joy, one must share it. -- George Gordon Byron

God has joy for you right now. -- Bonnie St. John

Joy was more than just an absence of discomfort. -- Brandon Sanderson

Your joy comes from how you think, the choices that we make in life. -- Joyce Meyer

That joy is to know You as You are. This is the happy life, to rejoice in You, of You, and for You. This is the happy life, and there is no other. -- Augustine Of Hippo

Joy
Is for the simple or the great to feel,
Neither of which we are. -- Philip Larkin

Joy is found in the simple and ordinary things of life: the smile of a newborn baby, the kiss from a sweet new puppy, and the warm sunshine on a spring day. -- Marie Cornelio

Joy is that kind of happiness that does not depend on what happens. -- David Steindl-Rast

Your joy ensures your life experiences, always serve to support you - along life's chosen path. -- Eleesha

Joy sets the heart free. -- Matshona Dhliwayo

The reward of life is Joy -- Sunday Adelaja

Joy is not getting what you want; it's appreciating what you have. -- Mark Batterson

True joy comes when you inspire, encourage, and guide someone else on a path that benefits him or her. -- Zig Ziglar

The joy is an absurd yellow tulip, popping up in my life, contradicting all the evidence that shows it should not be there. -- Marya Hornbacher

Is this the only goal of our life? Joy is not the goal; it is the square one of your life. -- Jeetendra Jain

Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph. -- William Butler Yeats

You have to sniff out joy. Keep your nose to the joy trail. -- Buffy Sainte-Marie

Joy is the mainspring in the whole
Of endless Nature's calm rotation.
Joy moves the dazzling wheels that roll
In the great Time-piece of Creation. -- Friedrich Schiller

Joy brings smiles on our faces, it brings power, peace and sound mind. -- Euginia Herlihy

Joy cannot be pursued. It comes from within. It is a state of being. It does not depend on circumstances, but triumphs over circumstances. It produces a gentleness of spirit and a magnetic personality. -- Billy Graham

There is a joy that brings true happiness, but it is not given to the ungodly. It is only for those who love You for Your own sake. That joy is to know You as You are. This is the happy life, to rejoice in You, of You, and for You. -- Augustine Of Hippo

Joy is something we can't manufacture. Joy happens to us not because of us. -- Todd Stocker

This joy you feel is life. -- Gertrude Stein

Feel the joy .. feel the happiness. -- Rhonda Byrne

Joy is in the ears that hear. -- Stephen R. Donaldson

Joy draws its nourishment from quietness and from the unfathomable. -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Joy is something that we have to choose and then work for. -- Francis Chan

Is joy in life, a terrible joy. There is joy for the taking if you are not afraid. -- Joyce Carol Oates

True joy is only hope put out of fear. -- Sir Fulke Greville

Joy is a byproduct experienced by people who are aiming for something else. But it comes. -- David Brooks

Start looking for joy and you'll find it. -- Norman Vincent Peale

Let joy be unconfined ... -- Lord Byron

To miss out on joy is to miss out on the reason for your existence. -- Lewis B. Smedes

The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us. -- Ashley Montagu

Joy is never tomorrow it's always now! -- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Joy is overwhelming fun - fun so big that it overflows your mind, heart, body - as if all of life and love were spilling into you and you were spilling out. -- Bernie De Koven

As long as our consciousness is materialistic, there is no room for joy. However on the spiritual platform three things automatically happen: eternity, knowledge and bliss. -- Bhakti Charu Swami

Joy is the feeling that comes from the inner man. -- Euginia Herlihy

The joy is is in the written word -- A.c. Gaughen

Joy comes form knowing God loves me, knows who I am and where I'm going ... that my future is secure as I rest in Him. -- James Dobson

You cannot instill joy. You can only find where it lives and bring it forth. -- Alan Cohen

Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose. -- Charles Du Bos

Surprise is the secret of joy. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton

Every joy is beyond all others. -- C.s. Lewis

Joy is a blessing but it often it is a conquest -- Paulo Coelho

Joys are like stray cats...the more you feed them...the more you get! ~Bertha -- Jane Carroll

Joy is a decision, a really brave one, about how you are going to respond to life. -- Wess Stafford

Joy is a choice, and it's something we fight for and choose. -- Joshua Stannard

Joy is a very high frequency current of energy with a great deal of energy content. Somebody who is joyful has a lot of energy. -- Gary Zukav

I feel a joy so strong it's almost painful - a knife's edge of joy. -- Christina Baker Kline

Joy must be one of the pivots of our life. It is the token of a generous personality. Sometimes it is also a mantle that clothes a life of sacrifice and self-giving. A person who has this gift often reaches high summits. He or she is like sun in a community. -- Mother Teresa

Your joy can be the impetus that motivates others to find their way to joy. -- Molly Friedenfeld

Find your own joy within and then greater joy will be added to you. -- Bryant Mcgill

We won't fully experience joy until we've answered life's biggest question: Why am I here? -- John C. Maxwell

Joy is the echo of God's life within us. -- Columba Marmion

Joy is a net of love by which you catch souls. -- Mother Teresa

The secret to joy is to keep seeking God where we doubt He is. -- Ann Voskamp

As I observe my daily life and that of others, I have come to the conclusion that genuine joy is a potent mixture of harsh reality, and the realization that life can be funny. -- Tone Bell

Joy begins with our convictions about spiritual truths we're willing to bet our lives on, and truths that are lodged so deeply within us that they produce a settled assurance about God. -- Kay Warren

Joy comes from having a relationship with the unchanging God and transcends any trial we can face on this earth. -- Jeremy Camp

Joy is a shadow cat that comes and goes when it pleases. A mere figment of mood, it slinks in from the ether and creeps beside you for a time, vanishing at the first sign of ownership. -- Monica Shaughnessy

Joyful is the accumulation of good work. -- Gautama Buddha

What did you think, that joy / was some slight thing? -- Mark Doty

Know that joy is rarer, more difficult, and more beautiful than sadness. Once you make this all-important discovery, you must embrace joy as a moral obligation. -- Andre Gide

The joy of accomplishment is the greatest joy there is. -- R. G. Letourneau

Joy comes from places you least expect it. It's usually the simple things, like watching my son play basketball or going through Central Park when the blossoms are blooming. -- Dave Gahan

Joy is the happiness of love - love aware of its own inner happiness. Pleasure comes from without, and joy comes from within, and it is, therefore, within reach of everyone in the world ... -- Fulton J. Sheen

You and I were created for joy, and if we miss it we miss the reason for our existence. If our joy is honest joy, it must somehow be congruous with human tragedy. This is the test of joy's integrity. It is compatible with pain. Only the heart that hurts has a right to joy. -- Lewis B. Smedes

True joy results when we become aware of our connectedness to everything. -- Paul Pearsall

The only thing that can bring joy is work. -- Louis Pasteur

...joy is a thing to be shared, quickly, without hesitation. -- Alison Anderson

Joy is a characteristic of spiritual maturity and of surrender. -- Joshua Stannard