Quotes about Joy
Love isn't material. It's energy... We experience it as kindness, giving, mercy, compassion, peace, joy, acceptance, non-judgment, joining and intimacy.
- Marianne Williamson
Now, what is Jesus Christ? The fruit of the spirit is a good example. Jesus is total love, total joy, total peace, total patient, gentleness, goodness, faithfulness, meekness, and self-control.
- Rick Warren
Divine love is perfect peace and joy, it is a freedom from all disquiet, it is all content and happiness; and makes everything to rejoice in itself.
- William Law
We all want to make a difference, to live in peace, to have joy each morning that we get to live this day and see what it brings.
- Rob Bell
There is more good in contentment, than there is in the thing that you would fain have to cure your discontent.
- Jeremiah Burroughs
If I had my life to live over again, I'd run barefoot, relax a bit more, I'd talk more to children, and I'd learn how they laugh.
- Amy Grant
We have had enough, once and for all, of Hedonism--the gloomy philosophy which says that Pleasure is the only good.
- CS Lewis
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.
- H Jackson Brown, Jr.
The fullness of Joy is to behold God in everything.
- Julian of Norwich
When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down happy.
- John Lennon
Cheerful givers do not count the cost of what they give. Their hearts are set on pleasing and cheering the person to whom the gift is given.
- Julian of Norwich
If you have zest and enthusiasm you attract zest and enthusiasm. Life does give back in kind.
- Norman Vincent Peale