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Quotes About Joy

I know exactly what I want. Everything. Calm, peace, tranquility, freedom, fun, happiness. If I could make all that one word, I would - a many-syllabled word.
~ Johnny Depp
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
Our Vocation is full of joy and peace in the Holy Spirit.
~ Catherine McAuley
There may be Peace without Joy, and Joy without Peace, but the two combined make Happiness.
~ John Buchan
If you pursue happiness you never find it.
~ C.P. Snow
Being a fool for God was not merely alright but liberating.
~ Joy Davidman
A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
~ Joseph Addison
You have everything you need for complete peace and total happiness right now.
~ Wayne W. Dyer
The dream we were conceived in will reveal a joyful face, and the world we once believed in will shine again in grace.
~ Michael Jackson
There is no happiness finally, there is no peace, there is no joy except we be right with God. The miserable Christian is wrong in his ideas as to how this rightness with God is to be obtained.
~ Martyn Lloyd-Jones
Happiness consists not in having, but of being, not of possessing, but of enjoying. It is the warm glow of a heart at peace with itself.
~ Norman Vincent Peale
If we lack confidence in each other, and be jealous of each other, our peace will be destroyed. If we cultivate the principles of unshaken confidence in each other, our joy will be full.
~ Brigham Young
Everybody wants a happy life and a peaceful mind, but we have to produce peace of mind through our own practice.
~ Dalai Lama XIV
I heard the bells on Christmas Day Their old, familiar carols play, And wild and sweet The words repeat Of peace on earth, good-will to men!
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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
It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature's gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever.
~ Jimmy Carter
Make peace with the universe. Take joy in it.
~ Rumi
Our mind is full of anger, jealousy and other negative feelings. Yet we do not realize that these are incompatible with inner peace and joy.
~ Gautama Buddha
Find joy and peace in this very moment.
~ Nhat Hanh
Love's the only goal, that can bring a peace to any soul.
~ Robert Palmer
All the things that truly matter, beauty, love, creativity, joy and inner peace arise from beyond the mind.
~ Eckhart Tolle
That the stars are adamant everyone understands— but I won't give up seeking joy on each blue wave or peace below every gray stone.
~ Edith Södergran
Listen for silence in noisy places; feel at peace in the midst of disturbance; awaken joy when there is no reason.
~ Sivaya Subramuniyaswami
If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh, Being Peace