Top 100 True Joy Quotes
#1. We are born to lose and to perish, to hope and to fear, to vex ourselves and others; and there is no antidote against a common calamity but virtue; for the foundation of true joy is in the conscience.
Seneca The Younger
#2. True joy comes from operating with Inner-directedness and recognizing who you are.
Sanaya Roman
#3. Having joy in God not because of circumstances but despite circumstances is what makes God look great - and it's a true joy that comes from within.
Jefferson Bethke
#4. True joy doth need no song to praise it, silence for love's delight is best.
Emanuel Geibel
#5. The pleasure of jogging and running is rather like that of wearing a fur coat in Texas in August: the true joy comes in being able to take the damn thing off.
Joseph Epstein
#6. The Holy Spirit is the source of spiritual unity! He is the Fount of all true joy! We as missionaries need the fullness of this joy. Without it our work will be a burden to us, and we shall toil on with the hearts of slaves; and the hearts of slaves are never strong.
Griffith John
#7. True joy comes when you inspire, encourage, and guide someone else on a path that benefits him or her.
Zig Ziglar
#8. Only those who walk in holiness experience true joy.
Jerry Bridges
#9. Find your purpose and you'll discover true joy.
Gary Westfal
#10. If life is an adventure, then a vacation is an adventure to find true joy.
Debasish Mridha
#11. True happiness is to rejoice in the truth, for to rejoice in the truth is to rejoice in You, O God, who are the truth ... Those who think that there is another kind of happiness look for joy elsewhere, but theirs is not true joy.
Saint Augustine
#12. I think most people would struggle to define their whole relationship with just one label - like: my girlfriend, boyfriend, brother, sister, confidantes, whatever - but in those moments, there's true joy in each other.
Rhea Seehorn
#13. The intrinsic and extrinsic heart is always at odds, so which heart is yours? For one will bask in true joy, while the other lives in self-loathing misery.
Joel T. McGrath
#14. True joy does not discount real suffering; it shines all the greater in the midst of it.
Melissa B. Kruger
#15. And to know that joy - not just happiness, but true joy - comes when we give up our own agenda and let God work through us. Then we can begin to see the bigger picture, the eternal picture, rather than just the tiny brush stroke of our own lives.
Laura Sobiech
#16. Trouble is a thing that will come without our call, but true joy will not spring up without ourselves.
Simon Patrick
#17. Truly embracing the fragility and tensions of life ... brings with it the possibility of true joy.
Peter Rollins
#18. This is the true joy of life-the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one, the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown to the scrap-heap; the being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish clod of ailments and grievances.
George Bernard Shaw
#19. Love expands your soul with something inexplicably fulfilling. If you die without ever having experienced it, you will miss life's only true joy
Adele Ashworth
#20. A person who is obsessed with Jesus is more concerned with his or her character than comfort. Obsessed people know that true joy doesn't depend on circumstances or environment; it is a gift that must be chosen and cultivated, a gift that ultimately comes from God (James 1:2-4).
Francis Chan
#21. A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.
Thomas Carlyle
#22. True joy is a serene and sober motion; and they are miserably out so that take laughing for rejoicing; the seat of it is within, and there is no cheerfulness like the resolutions of a brave mind.
Seneca The Younger
#23. Inspire others without expecting anything in return. True joy is in giving.
Debasish Mridha
#24. Moment after moment, everyone comes out from nothingness. This is the true joy of life.
Shunryu Suzuki
#26. True joy comes from knowing Christ personally and from depending on His strength rather than your own.
Jim George
#27. The Bible teaches that true joy is formed in the midst of the difficult seasons of life.
Francis Chan
#28. True joy comes only from God and He shares this joy with those who walk in fellowship with Him.
Jerry Bridges
#29. Our true joy is like those sunglasses we've been looking for all over, suddenly realizing they've been propped on our head during our entire search. They're already there, quietly waiting for us to reach up and realize they were never lost at all.
Kelly Corbet
#30. In what he suffered, as in all true suffering and in true joy, there was the quality of eternity. He could not believe it would ever end.
Elizabeth Goudge
#31. Joy is what we all seek. It is an energy more powerful than food. But without love we can not feel true joy.
Akiane Kramarik
#32. To begin to understand your Soul as an integral part of yourself and begin to connect with your Soul as a part of your full being and your true nature, is the beginning of wisdom and the portal to true joy.
Genevieve Gerard
#33. A life of sacrifice is the pinnacle of art, and is full of true joy.
Mahatma Gandhi
#34. There is no real and true joy of if that joy is not imbued with love. Love cannot exist without joy.
Torkom Saraydarian
#35. True joy of nature is when every drop of water shines like a pearl.
Anamika Mishra
#36. Our most intense joy comes not from personal feats, but from helping other persons achieve their goals. We become suppler human beings when we find true joy in witnessing other people's successes and unabashedly share in their joyful accomplishments.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#40. True joy is independence of circumstances - Choose to rejoice!
Andrew Wommack
#41. You are always on the verge of an adventure so dare to find it with true joy.
Debasish Mridha
#42. You find true joy and happiness in life when you give and give and go on giving and never count the cost.
Eileen Caddy
#43. True joy is a profound remembering; and true grief the same.
Clive Barker
#44. A true joy in life should be knowing that you have touched the heart of another human being
Steven Aitchison
#45. In this world, the only true joy comes from the gospel - the joy that radiates from the Atonement and from ordinances that transcend the veil, and from the Comforter that salves our souls.
Sheri L. Dew
#47. feel that, in a way, with the people near me and myself, it is much easier to give ourselves to what we do without fear, with true joy and with a feeling of belonging.
Charles Eisenstein
#48. A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy can live.
Bertrand Russell
#49. True joy results when we become aware of our connectedness to everything.
Paul Pearsall
#50. True joy is the earnest which we have of heaven, it is the treasure of the soul, and therefore should be laid in a safe place, and nothing in this world is safe to place it in.
John Donne
#51. There is no true joy and compassion except through the difficult emotions - all we get without the experience of fear, anger, and sadness are cheap imitations of joy and compassion - pleasantness and sentimentality.
Gabrielle Roth
#52. There is no true joy in a life lived closed up in the little shell of the self. When you take one step to reach out to people, when you meet with others and share their thoughts and sufferings, infinite compassion and wisdom well up within your heart. Your life is transformed.
Daisaku Ikeda
#53. Baking and love go hand in hand, for as one bakes a tasty treat and fills the room with its sweet aroma, the true joy is to take what has been made and share it with another.
Heather Wolf
#54. True joy cannot be bought with money or found in lavish things. It's a feeling deep within the heart.
Marie Cornelio
#55. The true joy of humankind is in doing that which is most proper to our nature; and the first property of people is to be kindly affected towards them that are of one kind with ourselves.
Marcus Aurelius
#56. Only our imagination has the power to create the world you want and whatever gives you true joy. Beware of those who tell you to face reality and let go of your imagination. All they may truly ask for is that you shift your imagination from what you want to what they want.
Franco Santoro
#57. True joy, as it turns out, comes only to those who have devoted their lives to something greater than personal happiness. This is most visible in extraordinary lives, in saints and martyrs. But it is no less true for ordinary people like us.
John Ortberg
#58. That is the true joy of being a solo artist. I can do whatever I want. I can go wherever I want. I can show up with my guitar and my song, and it can sound a hundred different ways. That's the freedom of being on your own. The flipside is: That's you on the cover. If it sucks, it's your fault.
Jenny Lewis
#59. To attain eternal happiness one must suffer. He who has reached the state of self-sacrifice has true joy. Temporal joy will vanish.
Abdu'l- Baha
#61. Such is true joy's absolute certainty,
Its slow lit fuse that burns holes
In the shabby shroud of death forever.
Scott Hastie
#63. I truly am living out what true joy and happiness means.
Jessica White
#64. Dr. Lipsenthal is a profound explorer of our inner and outer worlds. Enjoy Every Sandwich will help you heal your fear of death and embrace the true joy of life's extraordinary journey.
Edgar Mitchell
#65. Without the threat of suffering, we can't experience true joy.
Neal Shusterman
#66. I have made my limitations tools of learning and true joy.
Helen Keller
#67. We'll always be disappointed if we believe that we can plan for a peak experience and make it happen. True joy can't be anticipated or planned. It just strikes.
Harriet Lerner
#68. True joy is to take pleasure in one's own accomplishments ...
Kazuo Koike
#69. In basketball - as in life - true joy comes from being fully present in each and every moment, not just when things are going your way.
Phil Jackson
#70. Though many would seek short cuts to the truth, there is no way around the simplest of tenets: hardship begets achievement and achievement begets joy - true joy, and the sense of accomplishment that defines who we are as thinking beings.
R.A. Salvatore
#71. True 'joy' is the difference between just amusing ourselves to death and creating 'meaningful' pleasure.
Sidney Poitier
#72. We are fragile creatures, and it is from this weakness, not despite it, that we discover the possibility of true joy.
Desmond Tutu
#73. You can't recognize true joy if you've never known heartbreak.
Pain makes you stronger.
Fear makes you braver.
You can't know hope if you've never known despair.
Eve Silver
#74. Happy is the person who not only sings, but feels God's eye is on the sparrow, and knows He watches over me. To be simply ensconced in God is true joy.
Alfred A. Montapert
#75. A day to God is a thousand years,
Men walk around with a thousand fears.
The true joy of love brings a thousand tears,
In the world of desire, there's a thousand snares.
RZA
#76. It's only when you learn, live and give sincere service that you can experience life's deepest fulfillment and true joy
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
#77. The true joy of a moonlit night is something we no longer understand. Only the men of old, when there were no lights, could understand the true joy of a moonlit night.
Yasunari Kawabata
#78. There is a purpose in life
to raise men nearer to the likeness of God. Whoever seeks that ideal, daily, finds joy; and in no other way can true joy be found.
John Andreas Widtsoe
#79. Sooner or later we must realize there is no station, no one place to arrive at once and for all. The true joy of life is the trip. The station is only a dream. It constantly outdistances us.
A. Dean Byrd
#80. True Joy is not the absence of pain but the sanctifying, sustaining presence of the Lord Jesus in the midst of the pain
Nancy Leigh DeMoss
#81. Finding joy in times of pain begins with understanding that true joy is rooted in God. Thus, keeping one's relationship with God at the center of one's life is essential to discovering areas of joy, comfort and solace.
James Martin
#82. Success is realising the true joy and wonder of life can only be yours if you follow your own intuition, aiming to achieve your bliss.
Steven Redhead
#83. Without pain, how would we know what true joy feels like?
Tim Hiller
#84. The happening and the telling are very different things. This doesn't mean that the story isn't true, only that I honestly don't know anymore if I really remember it or only remember how to tell it.
Karen Joy Fowler
#85. When it comes to true dance, it's not about how you look, it's all about the joy you feel.
David Levithan
#86. There's something I believe wholeheartedly: Cynicism is the true refuge of the pseudo-intellectual, .. Cynicism is easy. Joy is an extremely advanced spiritual and intellectual tenet.
Craig Ferguson
#87. I always wanted to know what it is right. Maybe we know each other from time immemorial, if you know that in you is the eternal energy of goodness, which is most important for you.
Gregor Golob
#88. If you want to discover your true purpose for existing, all you have to do is look deeply into the things that bring you joy.
Toni Sorenson
#89. Your eyes gave it away. You don't want the old stuff. You want to have the new and improved Well-being, go with the right people and they'll be right for you.
Auliq Ice
#90. True love does not consist in trying to correct others, but in feeling joy that things are better than we expected.
Paulo Coelho
#91. Let us subdue the ravages of the baser-self, and aspire to the higher calling of exalting joy through compassion, for that is the one true purpose of humanity.
Bryant McGill
#92. Perhaps the lesson is this: Without knowledge of misery, there can be no true knowledge of joy.
Julianne MacLean
#93. So you begin to wonder if Leonia's true passion is really, as they say, the enjoyment of new and different things, and not, instead, the joy of expelling, discarding, cleansing itself of a recurrent impurity.
Italo Calvino
#94. The most treasured and sacred moments of our lives are those filled with the spirit of love. The greater the measure of our love, the greater is our joy. In the end, the development of such love is the true measure of success in life.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
#95. A thing doesn't have to be true, he said, for a person to get joy out of it. What it has to be is not evil or malicious.
Frank Delaney
#96. Joy comes when you turn it over to God to deal with. This is when you will feel the true release from it's weight.
Shannon L. Alder
#97. True power does not amass through the pain and suffering of others.
Joy Harjo
#98. Money can make life comfortable, solve some problems and bring temporary satisfaction, but true happiness and joy is not guaranteed by money.
Sunday Adelaja
#99. Someone once said that the joy is not in writing but in having written. I can't say I find that to be true, though I understand the sentiment.
Adam Gopnik
#100. The latin word responsibility reveals its true meaning: the capacity to respond, to act.
- Over-anxiety ultimately banishes every trace of joy from life.
Paulo Coelho
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