Joy Quotes - Page 24

• If you really want to receive joy and happiness, then serve others with all your heart. Lift their burden, and your own burden will be lighter.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Heart, Want, Burden

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• The human being places sexual intercourse above all other joys, but leaves it out of his heaven.

  Mark Twain

  Heaven, Intercourse, Humans

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• To multiply your joy, count your blessings.

  J. B. Priestley

  Blessing, Count Your Blessings

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• There is no great fun, satisfaction, or joy derived from doing something that's easy.

  John Wooden

  Fun, Satisfaction, Easy

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• I don't miss the obligation to be opinionated, but I do regret the chance to share a joy.

  Adam Gopnik

  Regret, Missing, Chance

  Source: www.newyorker.com

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• Run. For your life, for your joy, for your calm and peace of mind. Run. Because your legs are strong and your lungs are aching for the taste of air. Run. Because what's the point of a life spent walking in the middle?

  Tyler Knott Gregson

  Running, Strong, Air

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• My greatest joy comes from teaching.

  Duke Roufus

  Teaching

  Interview with Alireza Fadaie, bleacherreport.com. February 25, 2010.

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• Yes, all my illusions will burn into illumination of joy, and all my desires ripen into fruits of love.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Illumination, Desire, Fruit

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.39, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• Success, I would find out, is interior. It has to do with self-fulfillment and the joy of living.

  Sophia Loren

  Self, Fulfillment, Interiors

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• The joy of joys is the person of light but unmalicious humor. If you know any one who is gay, beguiling and amusing, you will, if you are wise, do everything you can to make him prefer your house and your table to any other; for where he is, the successful party is also.

  Emily Post

  Wise, Party, Gay

  Emily Post (2007). “Etiquette: In Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home”, p.51, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Multiplicity without strife is joy.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Strife, Multiplicity

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• The joy of God is so exquisite that any sacrifice is worth the effort and seeming pain.

  David Hawkins

  Pain, Sacrifice, Effort

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• It is the Divine Presence that gives value to life. This Presence is the source of all peace, all joy, all security. Find this Presence in yourself and all your difficulties will disappear.

  Mirra Alfassa

  Giving, Divine, Disappear

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• We need to remind each other that the cup of sorrow is also the cup of joy, that precisely what causes us sadness can become the fertile ground for gladness.

  Henri Nouwen

  Sadness, Sorrow, Needs

  Henri J.M. Nouwen (2017). “You Are the Beloved: Daily Meditations for Spiritual Living”, Convergent Books

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• Humor is the fastest, fleetest way of giving -it can change pain to joy in a mere millisecond.

  Stephen G. Post

  Pain, Giving, Way

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• When you are a thankful person it releases joy.

  Joyce Meyer

  Release, Persons

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• It's when I let myself get little that I tumble head over heels into joy.

  Thomas Kinkade

  Littles, Head Over Heels, Heels

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• Success is only measured in terms of JOY

  Esther Hicks

  Term

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• Made for spirituality, we wallow in introspection. Made for joy, we settle for pleasure. Made for justice, we clamor for vengeance.

  N. T. Wright

  Justice, Spirituality, Vengeance

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• Nothing from outside can stop a man from enjoying lasting peace and permanent joy in life, for it is the essential nature of his own soul.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Men, Soul, Essentials

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (1986). “Thirty Years Around the World: 1957-1964”, Stichting Drukkerij En Uitgeverij Mvu

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• Take joy in who you are, we know our wings are flawed.

  Andy Biersack

  Wings, Black Veil Brides, Flawed

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• I like to remind my friends frequently how short life is. This is the important message of death: not a day to waste, not a day to quarrel, not a day to brood upon yourself. This is not losing the joy of life; this is gaining the joy of life.

  Eknath Easwaran

  Short Life, Important, Waste

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• When that which I have chosen to focus upon in this moment evokes love or joy or appreciation, I am, in that moment, offering my greatest value to myself, to my current object of attention and to All-That-Is.

  Esther Hicks

  Appreciation, Offering, Focus

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• The bringers of joy have always been the children of sorrow.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Children, Sorrow

  Hazrat Inayat Khan “The Sayings of Hazrat Inayat Khan”, Library of Alexandria

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• One by one bright gifts from heaven
  Joys are sent thee here below;
  Take them readily when given,
  Ready, too, to let them go.

  Adelaide Anne Procter

  Heaven, Given, Thee

  Adelaide Anne Procter (1858). “Legends and lyrics: a book of verses”, p.28

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