Sayings about Joy & Joyfulness
Joyfulness is half your health. ~ Czech Proverbs
Peace is the well from which the stream of joy runs. ~ Scottish Proverbs
A joy that’s shared is a joy made double. ~ English Proverbs
A wise teacher makes learning a joy. ~ Traditional Proverb
Don’t promise something when you are full of joy; don’t answer letters when you are full of anger. ~ Chinese Proverbs
Every joy will follow in grief’s footsteps. ~ Malawian Proverbs
Friendship doubles joy and halves grief. ~ Egyptian Proverbs
Half of an orange tastes just as sweet as a whole one. ~ Panamanian Proverbs
Hidden joy is an extinguished candle. ~ Spanish Proverbs
If you get rich, be in a dark corner when you jump for joy. ~ African Proverb
If you’re skilled, your wallet will be filled. ~ Yiddish Proverb
In the midst of great joy do not promise to give a man anything; in the midst of great anger do not answer a man’s letter. ~ Chinese Proverb
Into the house where joy lives, happiness will gladly come. ~ Japanese Proverbs
Joy and sorrow sleep in the same bed. ~ Czech Proverb
Life itself cannot give you joy, unless you really will it. Life just gives you time and space; it’s up to you to fill it. ~ Chinese Proverb
Never trust the man who tells you all his troubles but keeps from you all his joys. ~ Jewish Proverb
No joy without wine. ~ Hebrew Proverb
Nothing equals the joy of the drinker, except the joy of the wine in being drunk. ~ French Proverbs
Of no worldly good can the joy be perfect, unless it is shared by a friend. ~ Latin Proverbs
Old age is not a joy, but death is not a gain. ~ Russian Proverbs
One does not live on joy or die of sorrow. ~ Yiddish Proverb
One joy scatters a hundred grieve. ~ Chinese Proverb
Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow. ~ Swedish Proverb
Sorrow doesn’t kill — reckless joy does. ~ West African Proverb
Sorrow is the child of too much joy. ~ Chinese Proverb
The body of joy is not so big. ~ Nigerian Proverbs
The bridge between joy and sorrow is not long. ~ German Proverb
The fear of death takes away the joy of living. ~ Ukrainian Proverbs
The heir’s tears are but a mask to disguise his joy. ~ Mexican Proverbs
The joy of a poor man does not last long. ~ Brazilian Proverbs
The less souls, the more joy. ~ Yiddish Proverb
To be totally at leisure for one day is to be immortal for one day. ~Chinese Proverb
To long for everything: sorrow; to accept everything: joy. ~ Indian Proverbs
A child is a certain sorrow and uncertain joy. ~ Swedish Proverb
A day of sorrow is longer than a month of joy. ~ Chinese Proverb
A house without a dog, a cat, or a little child is a house without joy or laughter. ~ Scottish Proverb
Quotations about Joyfulness
It is the sum of the million little unconscious dispositions that go to make life joyful or painful. ~ Henry Ward Beecher
The more the heart is sated with joy, the more it becomes insatiable. ~ Gabrielle Roy
Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile. ~ Pierre Coneille
Troubles loom up big when they’re ahead, and joys seem always sweeter when they’re past. ~ Edgar Guest
Stretch out your hand and take the world’s wide gift of Joy and Beauty. ~ Corinne Roosevelt Robinson
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them. ~ Kahlil Gibran
The soul’s joy lies in doing. ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
It is a fine seasoning for joy to think of those we love. ~ Moliere
Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow. ~ Helen Keller
Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams. ~ Hosea Ballou
Happiness… it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort. ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
Oh the wild joys of living! The leaping from rock to rock … the cool silver shock of the plunge in a pool’s living waters. ~ Robert Browning
The surest mark of a Christian is not faith, or even love, but joy. ~ Samuel M. Shoemaker
Perhaps there could be no joy on this planet without an equal weight of pain to balance it out on some unknown scale. ~ Stephanie Meyer
Pleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within. ~ Eckhart Tolle
Joy and grief are things of great hazard and danger in the life of man: The one breaks the heart; the other intoxicates the head. ~ Benjamin Whichcote
Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. A joyful heart is the inevitable result of a heart burning with love. ~ Mother Teresa
Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue. ~ Henry Fielding
There is no greater joy under the sun than the joy of giving: giving of one’s time, energy, talent, and money to help one’s fellow man. ~ William H. Taylor
Life is about enjoying yourself and having a good time. ~ Cher
All human joys are swift of wing, For heaven doth so allot it; That when you get an easy thing, You find you haven’t got it. ~ Eugene Field
Joy‘s recollection is no longer joy, while Sorrow’s memory is a sorrow still. ~ Lord Byron
You are younger today than you ever will be again. Make use of it for the sake of tomorrow. ~ Author Unknown
People come and go, pain comes and goes. But so does joy. And if our hearts are closed because we don’t want to suffer, they won’t be open enough to recognize the joy as it flies by. ~ Geneen Roth
Joy has no cost. ~ Marianne Williamson
He who has not looked on Sorrow will never see Joy. ~ Kahlil Gibran
Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs. ~ Jean Paul Richter
Joy runs deeper than despair. ~ Corrie Ten Boom
The end of life is life. Life is action, the use of one’s powers. And to use them to their height is our joy of duty. ~ Author Unknown
A garden isn’t meant to be useful. It’s for joy. ~ Rumer Godden
Joys divided are increased. ~ Josiah Gilbert Holland
The joys we expect are not so bright, nor the troubles so dark as we fancy they will be. ~ Charles Reade
Joy is not in things, it is in us. ~ Richard Wagner
Unexplained joy is always so keen that…it seems to hold enough to reconcile one to the inevitable. ~ Jessie B. Fremont
In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast. ~ Henry Ward Beecher
I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy. ~ C. S. Lewis
Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. ~ William Congreve
Where there is joy there is creation. Where there is no joy there is no creation: know the nature of joy. ~ Veda
There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something. ~ Henry Ford
We French found it and called it joie de vivre — the joy of living. ~ Renee Repound
Joy is free, unrestrained passion. ~ Eileen Stukane
Men are not put into this world to be everlastingly played on by the harping fingers of joy. ~ Henry Ward Beecher
The fact is always obvious much too late, but the most singular difference between happiness and joy is that happiness is a solid and joy a liquid. ~ J. D. Salinger
Joy is the best wine.~ George Eliot
What I do, I do very well, and what I don’t do well, I don’t do at all. ~ Author Unknown
Joy is more divine than sorrow; for joy is bread, and sorrow is medicine. ~ Henry Ward Beecher
You get more joy out of giving joy to others and should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
Joy is a subtle elf; I think one’s happiest when he forgets himself. ~ Cyril Tourneur
They that sow in tears shall reap in joy. ~ Bible
Joy is good–the angel’s food. ~ Caroline Spencer
The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy. ~ Jim Rohn
What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they’ve taken away? ~ Logan Pearsall Smith
There is no greater joy nor greater reward than to make a fundamental difference in someone’s life. ~ Sister Mary Rose McGeady
Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside. ~ Dr. Melba Colgrove
I have drunken deep of joy, and I will taste no other wine tonight. ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
To pursue joy is to lose it. The only way to get it is to follow steadily the path of duty. ~ Alexander Maclaren
Cultivate more joy by arranging your life so that more joy will be likely. ~ Georgia Within
Joy, has no cost. ~ Marianne Williamson
There’s a great joy in my giving. It’s thrilling. It’s exhilarating. It’s important to be a part of sharing. It is my love. It is my joy. ~ W. Clement Stone
May your joys be as deep as the ocean, your sorrows as light as its foam. ~ Author Unknown
The joy in life is to be used for a purpose. I want to be used up when I die. ~ George Bernard Shaw
Before the reward there must be labor. You plant before you harvest. You sow in tears before you reap joy. ~ Ralph Ransom
There is no hope of joy except in human relations. ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
You Can Have it All: A Simple Guide to a Joyful and Abundant Life. ~ Book preview