Quotes About Joy

I have found that most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

It is the happiness that comes from within that is lasting and fulfilling.

Each person on this planet is inherently, intrinsically capable of attaining "dizzying heights" of happiness and fulfillment.

The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here.

Happiness and love are just a choice away.

There is always something to chuckle about. Sometimes we see it. Sometimes . . . we don't. Still, the world is filled with humor. It is there when we are happy and it is there to cheer us up when we are not.

Joy is the most infallible sign of the Presence of God.

Listen to the clues. The next time you feel real joy, stop and think. Pay attention. Because joy is the universe's way of knocking on your mind's door. Hello in there. Is anyone home? Can I leave a message? Yes? Good I The message is that you are happy, and that means that you are in touch with your purpose.

When we align our thoughts, emotions, and actions with the highest part of ourselves, we are filled with enthusiasm, purpose, and meaning. . . . We are joyously and intimately engaged with our world. This is the experience of authentic power.

We have a tendency to obscure the forest of simple joys with the trees of problems.

People need joy quite as much as clothing. Some of them need it far more.

You increase your joy by increasing the pure joy of others.

Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself. In giving it, you will accumulate a deposit of joy greater than you ever believed possible.

As you express joy, you draw it out of those you meet, creating joyful people and joyful events. The greater the joy you express, the more joy you experience.

If we could learn how to balance rest against effort, calmness against strain, quiet against turmoil, we would assure ourselves of joy in living and psychological health for life.

Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Joy is the will which labors, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.

It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joy.

I believe humans were born to have joy and to have it more abundantly; that the birthright of everyone is loving, caring, sharing, and abundance.

Blessed are the joymakers.

Although a lot can be learned from adversity, most of the same lessons can be learned through laughter and joy.

So when you're lonely or sad or bad or blue remember where laughter's hiding . . . it's hiding inside of YOU!

Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.

Laughter puts your brain, your central nervous system and your whole being into a state of free play.