80 Joy Quotes That Will Lift Your Spirits

Sometimes, we all need a little reminder to find joy in the everyday moments. These joy quotes are here to do just that—bring a smile to your face and lift your spirits. Whether you’re feeling down or just need a bit of inspiration, these quotes will help you find a little spark of happiness. Take a moment to soak in their positivity and let them inspire a brighter outlook

1. “Joy is a choice, but it isn’t an easy one.” — Julie B. Beck

2. “Joy is the feeling of grinning inside.” — Melba Colgrove

3. “When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.” — Rumi

4. “Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.” — Joseph Campbell

5. “If we aren’t capable of being hurt, we aren’t capable of feeling joy.” — Madeleine L’Engle

6. “Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home. It’s your responsibility to love it, or change it.” — Chuck Palahniuk

7. “Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow.” ― Helen Keller

8. “A joyful heart is the normal result of a heart burning with love. She gives most who gives with joy.” — Mother Theresa

9. “Joy is a decision, a really brave one about how you are going to respond to life.” — Weiss Stafford

10. “Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.” — Sara Ban Breathnach

11. “When you feel a peaceful joy, that’s when you are near truth.” — Rumi

12. “Joy is not in things; it is in us.” — Richard Wagner

13. “The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.” — Richard Bach

14. “Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.” — Karl Barth

15. “To get the full value of joy, you must have someone to divide it with.” — Mark Twain

16. “When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.” — Buddha

17. “When you wish someone joy, you wish them peace, love, prosperity, happiness. All the good things.” – Maya Angelou

18. “Joy is prayer, joy is strength, joy is love. Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.” — Mother Theresa

19. “Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day.” — Henri J.M. Nouwen

20. “There is such joy in embracing everything as it comes. Neither holding onto nor pushing away.” — Michael Jeffreys

21. “The real joy in life comes from finding your true purpose and aligning it with what you do every single day.” — Tony Robbins

22. “Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile.” — Wilfred T. Grenfell

23. “Good is not the opposite of evil, joy is the opposite of evil.” — Michael Venturea

24. “The joy we feel has little to do with the circumstances of our lives and everything to do with the focus of our lives.” — Russell M. Nelson

25. “Friendship, love, health, energy, enthusiasm and joy are things that make life worth living and exploring.” — Denise Austin

26. “If we cannot find joy in the journey, there will be no delight in the destination.” — Will Craig

27. “Pleasure is always derived from something outside of you, whereas joy arises from within.” — Eckhart Tolle

28. “The fruit of joy is right there in you, let it blossom.” — Paul Bamikole

29. “Like the rainbow after the rain, joy will reveal itself after sorrow.” — Rupi Kaur

30. “The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it.” — Thich Nhat Hanh

31. “If you carry joy in your heart, you can heal any moment.” — Carlos Santana

32. “When we are centered in joy, we attain our wisdom.” — Marianne Williamson

33. “Joy transcends all other emotions.” — Ann Voskamp

34. “Joy must be one of the pivots of our life. It is the token of a generous personality. Sometimes it is also a mantle that clothes a life of sacrifice and self-giving. A person who has the gift often reaches high summits. He or she is like sun in a community.” — Mother Theresa

35. “You are born to love, care and share without expectation to feel the pure joy of life.” — Debasish Mridha

36. “The essence of life is not in the great victories and grand failures, but in the simple joys.” — Jonathan Lockwood Huie

37. “The more the heart is sated with joy, the more it becomes insatiable.” — Gabrielle Roy

38. “Joy is probably the most vulnerable emotion we experience in our lives.” — Brene Brown

39. “A joyful life is not a floodlight of joy. A joyful life is made up of joyful moments gracefully strung together by trust, gratitude, inspiration and faith.” — Brene Brown

40. “Events bring you small joy, while existence brings you bliss.” — Sri Sri

41. “Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.” — Thcih Nhat Hanh

42. “Find out where joy resides and give it a voice far beyond singing. For to miss the joy is to miss all.” — Robert Louise Stevenson

43. “Expectation has brought me disappointment. Disappointment has brought me wisdom. Acceptance, gratitude and appreciation have brought me joy and fulfillment.” — Rahseed Ogunlaru

44. “Be a fountain of love and joy so that everyone can see it, feel it and enjoy it.” — Debasish Mridha

45. “You are free to think thoughts of worry and joy and whatever you choose will attract the same kind back to you. Worry attracts worry. Joy attracts joy.” — Rhonda Byrne

46. “When it comes to the bigger decisions, we must have the wisdom to choose joy, no matter how fun the alternative.” — Augustine Wetta

47. “Joy is to fun what the deep sea is a to a puddle. It’s a feeling inside that you can hardly be contained.” — Terry Pratchett

48. “Joy cannot be pursued. It comes from within. It is a state of being. It does not depend on circumstances, but triumphs over circumstances. It produces a gentleness of spirit and a magnetic personality.” — Billy Graham

49. “The joy of the mind is the measure of it’s strength.” — Ninon de L’Enclos

50. “Tears of joy are like the summer rain, pierced by sunbeams.” — Hosea Ballou

51. “The most beautiful moments in life are moments when you are expressing your joy, not when you are seeking it.” — Jaggi Vasudev

52. “Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt

53. “But happiness is to joy as an electric bulb is to the sun. Happiness always has an object, you’re happy because of something, it’s a condition whose existence depends on external things. Joy, on the other hand, has no object. It seizes you for no apparent reason. It’s like the sun, its burning is fueled by it’s own heart.” — Susanna Tamaro

54. “Do good, live in the most positive and joyful way possible every day.” — Roy T. Bennett

55. “Joy lies in the fight, in the attempt, in the suffering involved, not in the victory itself.” — Mahatma Gandhi

56. “True joy comes when you inspire, encourage, and guide someone else on a path that benefits him or her.” — Zig Ziglar

57. “Keep finding the joy in what you’re doing, especially when the joy is not finding you.” — Lauren Graham

58. “It is only when the mind is free from the old that it meets everything anew, and in that there is joy.” — Krishnamurti

59. “Those who travel in faith today will triumph in joy tomorrow. Let faith lead the way.” — Israelmore Ayivor

60. “Think joy, talk joy, practice joy, share joy, saturate your mind with joy and you will have the time of your life today and everyday all your life.” — Norman Vincent Peale

61. “When we find joy in our heart, everything around us becomes joyful too.” — Debasish Mridha

62. “Your mind will dance with joy and peace when you stop complaining and start forgiving.” — Debasish Mridha

63. “Comparison is the thief of joy.” — Theodore Roosevelt

64. “Joy blooms where minds and hearts are open.” — Jonathan Lockwood Huie

65. “You will find joy, love, and hope are the strongest, most elevating emotions in our universe. Discover for yourself how they can anchor the spirit, open your heart and bring to you, endless possibilities.” — Andrew Pacholyk

66. “Joy comes to us in ordinary moments. We risk missing out when we get too busy chasing down the extraordinary.” — Brene Brown

67. “Sometimes in life we become focused on the finish line that we fail to find joy in the journey.” — Dieter F. Uchtdorf

68. “Joy is strength.” — Mother Theresa

69. “Happiness and joy are not the same. For what does the fervent craving for joy mean? It does not mean that we wish at any cost to experience the psychic state of being joyful. We want to have reason for joy, for an unceasing joy that fills us utterly, sweeps all before it, exceeds all measure.” — Josef Pieper

70. “When you start believing that you are too old to enjoy something, you lose so much joy in your life.” — Avina Celestt

71. “There may be human joy in doing good with definite purpose but they who do good expecting nothing in return know a joy that is divine.” — Maurice Maeterlinck

72. “Joy is like a jewel.” — Lailah Gifty Akita

73. “Wherever you go in life, go with love in your heart, hope in your soul and joy in your mind. For love, hope and joy will take you far.” — Carol CC Miller

74. “The root of joy is gratefulness. It is not joy that makes us grateful, it is gratitude that makes us joyful.” — Brother David Steindl-Rast

75. “Joy in sorrow is the grace of the spirit.” — Lailah Gifty Akita

76. “There are souls in this world who have the gift of finding joy everywhere, and leaving it behind them when they go.” — Fredrick William Faber

77. “Joy has a spring deep down inside. And the spring never runs dry, no matter what happens.” — Samuel Gordon

78. “Life is magical for those whose hearts are loving, minds are full with joy, and eyes that are dancing with beauty.” — Debasish Mridha

79. “From the cradle to the grave, joy and pain is the fertilizer for wisdom.” — T.F. Hodge

80. ‘Seek joyfulness when you can, for seeking joy leads to an auspicious atmosphere.” — Johnathan D. Spence

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