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

 
“Life is a well of joy.”—Friedrich Nietzsche

 
“Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.”—Carl Sandburg

 
“We rarely succeed at anything unless we have fun doing it.”—Rev. John Naus

 
“I finally figured out the main reason to be alive is to enjoy it.”—Rita Mae Brown

 
“I don’t know why we are here, but I’m pretty sure it has something to do with enjoying ourselves.”—Ludwig Wittgenstein

 
“It isn’t the big pleasures that count the most; it’s making a great deal out of the little ones.”—Jean Webster

 
“Joys are our wings.”—Jean Paul Rickles

 
“The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.”—Emily Dickinson

 
“An ecstasy is a thing that will not go into words; it feels like music.”—Mark Twain

 
“A thing of beauty is a joy forever.”—John Keats

 
“I don’t believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.”—Joseph Campbell

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

 
“If you love life, life will love you back.”—Arthur Rubinstein

 
“The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world’s joy.”—Henry Ward Beecher

 
“I trust all joy.”—Theodore Roethke

 
“Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow.”—Norman Vincent Peale

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

 
“Scatter joy.”—Ralph Waldo Emerson

 
“Keep knocking, and the Joy inside will eventually open a window and look out to see who’s there.”—Rumi

 
“Don’t postpone joy until you have learned all of your lessons. Joy is your lesson.”—Alan Cohen

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

 
“Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.”—Mother Teresa

 
“Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.”—Joseph Campbell

 
“One joy shatters a hundred griefs.”—Chinese Proverb

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

 
“Joy can be real only if people look upon their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.”—Leo Tolstoy

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

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

 
“I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!”—Louise Bogan

 
“To get joy, we must give it, and to keep joy, we must scatter it.”—John Templeton

 
“This is the true joy of life, the being used up for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one.”—George Bernard Shaw

 
“Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.”—Eleanor Roosevelt

 
“Weeping may endure for a night, but joy comes in the morning.”—Psalms

“Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.”—Emily Dickinson