Quotes, aphorisms and phrases about joy, or about that inner sense of sweetness and pleasure that is reflected externally through the smile and the behaviors made of gestures expressing happiness.
Quotes about joy
- When you get up in the morning, think about what precious privilege it is to be alive: breathe, think, feel joy and love. (Marco Aurelio)
- Friendship travels the earth, announcing to all of us to wake up to communicate joy to each other. (Epicurus)
- A pure and complete pain is impossible as a pure and perfect joy. (Lev Tolstoj)
- The joys of this life are not the same as its evils. (Pliny the Elder)
- Wealth, beauty, everything can be lost, but the joy in your heart can only be blurred. (Anne Frank)
- With love there is no trade on the market. His joy, like the joy of the intellect, is to feel alive. The purpose of love is to love neither more nor less. (Oscar Wilde)
- The walls we build around us keep sadness out but also keep joy out. (Jim Rohn)
- If I weren't a physicist, I'd probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daily dreams in music. I see my life in musical terms. I get the greatest joys of life from music. (Albert Einstein)
- It is a joy without flaws to discover a pure soul. They are souls that resemble the first children's books: they contain few words and are full of colors. (Christian Bobin)
- Joy is the lifeblood of all human things. (Pierre Bayle)
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- In the long run, even tired joy: it requires too much energy; and one should not believe that people who are always at the table or playing are more pleased than others. They are there because they could not be anywhere else, and there they are bored to be less bored than elsewhere. (Montesquieu)
- The greatest joy that love can give is the first handshake of the beloved woman. (Stendhal)
- I slept and thought that life was only Joy. Upon awakening, I discovered that life was also Duty. I fulfilled my duty and saw my life turn into joy. (Paulo Coelho)
- And if you could maintain the wonder of your heart before the daily miracles of life, your pain will not seem less wonderful than your joy. (Khalil Gibran)
- Living lightly, but not thoughtlessly; to be joyful without being rowdy, to be courageous without being reckless; show confidence and cheerful resignation without fatalism - this is the art of living. (Jean De La Fontaine)
- All those who gain joy will have to share it. Happiness was born a twin. (Lord Byron)
- The greatest joy in life is the belief of being loved (Victor Hugo)
- Love consists in wanting to give what is ours to another and feel his joy as ours. (Emanuel Swedenborg)
- Joy in observing and understanding is the most beautiful gift of nature. (Albert Einstein)
- It is good to miss an opportunity for joy if at the same time a pain disappears. (Publilio Siro)
- Rejoicing in the joy that can be found in others is the secret of happiness. (George Bernanos)
- Who is the happiest of men? Who appreciates the merits of others, and finds joy in their pleasure, as if they were his own. (Goethe)
- The joy of living derives from the encounter with new experiences, and therefore there is no greater joy than having a constantly changing horizon, of being in a new and different sun every day. (Jon Krakauer)
- In love, every border disappears; even in joy every border disappears, because joy is not cold. Except for death, nothing is cold. (Osho)
- Joy is very contagious; therefore, always be full of joy. (Mother Teresa of Calcutta)
- Art is the expression of man's joy in fatigue. (William Morris)
- We, finite beings, personifications of an infinite spirit, were born to have joys and sorrows together; and one could almost say that the best of us achieve joy through suffering. (Ludwig Van Beethoven)
Aphorisms on joy
- Silence is the most perfect herald of joy: I would be very unhappy if I were able to say how much. (William Shakespeare)
- The hope of joy is almost equal to joy. (William Shakespeare)
- The highest, the most varied and most lasting joys are spiritual. (Arthur Schopenhauer)
- Choose to approach those who sing, tell stories, enjoy life and have joy in their eyes. Because joy is contagious. (Paulo Coelho)
- The walls we build around us keep sadness out but also keep joy out. (Jim Rohn)
- A beautiful thing is a joy forever. His grace increases, it will never end in nothing. (John Keats)
- I find that to live there is only need for resignation; in the face of death, however, I feel nothing but joy. (Saint Teresa of Lisieux)
- Joy is a man's passage from a minor perfection to a greater one. (Spinoza)
- We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy comes like a shadow that never leaves us. (Buddha)
- Joy was a fleeting emotion like a shooting star that crosses the night sky and then goes out in a flash. (Nicholas Sparks)
- There can be no joy in life without the joy of work. (St. Thomas Aquinas)
- Behind the joy and smile there can be a rough, harsh and shrewd temperament. But behind the pain there is only pain. Anguish, contrary to pleasure, is never masked. (Oscar Wilde)
- When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves us. (Buddha)
- We are invited to ask the Holy Spirit for the gift of joy and happiness because it is a fruit of the Holy Spirit. (Pope francesco)
- The joy of living is the best cosmetic for women. (Rosalind Russel)
- Yes, all our joys are in vain, but even more in vain are those which, bought with pain, inherit the pain. (William Shakespeare)
- But what does the eternity of damnation matter to those who have experienced the infinity of joy in a second? (Charles Baudelaire)
- There is no hope of joy except in human relationships. (Antoine De Saint Exupery)
- Small joys, not big ones, serve us as a daily relief and comfort. (Hermann Hesse)
- Joy is not in things, it is in us. (Richard Wagner)
- I would like to bring you nothing but joy and surround you with a calm and continuous happiness to compensate you a little for everything you give me with full hands in the generosity of your love. (Victor Hugo)
- Pain can take care of itself, but to understand the full value of joy you need to have someone with you to share it with. (Mark Twain)
- Joy requires more abandonment, more courage than pain. To surrender to joy means precisely to challenge the dark, the unknown. (Hugo Von Hofmannsthal)
- True friends are those who reciprocally exchange trust, dreams and thoughts, virtues, joys and sorrows; always free to separate, without ever separating. (Alfred Bougeard)
- Joy is the most beautiful creature that came out of the hands of God after love. (Don Bosco)
- To be happy, life must pass mostly quiet, since true joy can only live in an atmosphere of tranquility. (Bertrand Russell)
- If for your joy you need the permission of others, you are a poor fool. (Hermann Hesse)
Phrases about joy
- The only joy in the world is to start. It's nice to live because to live is to start, always, at every moment. (Cesare Pavese)
- Perhaps it was so joy, seen from within: a valley of lights, an ethereal wind. (Barbara Kingsolver)
- Do not forget that giving joy also gives joy. (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche)
- For me, serenity is worth more than happiness. Happiness is a very overrated word. It is joy that matters, or bliss. (Henry Miller)
- Good is the action that does not cause any regret and whose fruit is welcomed with joy and serenity. (Buddha)
- Joy is simply being yourself: alive, vibrant, in full vitality. The feeling of subtle music around and inside the body, a symphony: this is joy. (Osho)
- The man in charge of himself puts an end to pain with the same ease with which he improvises a joy. (Oscar Wilde)
- The most striking difference between happiness and joy is that happiness is a solid and joy is a liquid. (J.D. Salinger)
- We, finite beings, personifications of an infinite spirit, were born to have joys and sorrows together; and one could almost say that the best of us achieve joy through suffering. (Beethoven)
- Joy is like flying. (Emily Dickinson)
- Nobody complains with greater ostentation than those who rejoice most. (Publius Cornelius Tacitus)
- A moment of joy always takes us by surprise. We are not the ones who grab him, but he is the ones who grab us. (Ashley Montagu)
- God never disturbs the joy of his children, except to prepare them for a more certain and greater one. (Alessandro Manzoni)
- Joy and love are the wings for the greatest enterprises. (Goethe)
- Even the pains are, after a long time, a joy, for those who remember everything they have gone through and endured. (Homer)
- Melancholy of the past, joy of the present, repentance of the future ... this is life.(Jim Morrison)
- The more I acquire experience, the more I realize that man is the cause of his pain or his joy. (Mahatma Gandhi)
- Joy is the simplest form of gratitude. (Karl Barth)
- Joy does not consist in the discovery of truth, but in the search for it. (Lev Tolstoj)
- Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but often your smile can be the source of your joy. (Thich Nhat Hanh)
- Go ahead with the dances, let the joy overflow, it's my motto; if there is any dance to dance or any joy to release. (Mark Twain)
- The greatest joy is that which was not expected. (Sophocles)
- Reflect on your present joys, of which every man is full - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some. (Charles Dickens)
- The bond that unites your real family is not that of blood, but that of respect and joy for each other's lives. Rarely do family members grow under one roof. (Richard Bach)
- In certain moments melancholy takes over, but I like to think that moments of joy also exist. (Stephen Dillane)
- Joy is our escape from time. (Simone Weil)
- All the great joys are similar in their effects, unlike the great pains that have a very varied scale of manifestations. (Ippolito Nievo)
