J Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with J. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Joy in sorrow is the grace of the spirit.”
“Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all - that has been my religion.”
“Joy in what we do is not an added feature; it is a sign of deep health.”
Source: The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have (Gift Edition)
“Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself.”
Source: Positive Thinking Every Day: An Inspiration For Each Day of the Year
“Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it yourself. In giving it, you will accumulate a deposit of joy greater than you ever believed possible.”
Source: Positive Thinking Every Day: An Inspiration For Each Day of the Year
“Joy is a big stress buster too. Measure your success by how much fun you're having.”
“Joy is a choice, not an outcome.”
Source: Thoughts From The Inside
“Joy is a condition that is experienced, but it is more than a feeling; it is, primarily, a state of mind.”
Source: Great Joy: A 31-Day Devotional
“Joy is a decision, a really brave one, about how you are going to respond to life.”
“Joy is a deeply felt contentment that transcends difficult circumstances and derives maximum enjoyment from every good experience.”
Source: Insights on John
“Joy is a flame which association alone can keep alive, and which goes out unless communicated.”
“Joy is a flower that pain grows best.”
Source: Can I Tell You Something?
“Joy is a freedom. It helps a person to find his/her own liberation. The person who is joyous takes responsibility for the time he/she takes up and the space that he/she occupies. You share it! Some of you have it ... you share it! That is what joy is! When you continue to give it away you will still have so much more of it.”
“Joy is a gift given not an emotion earned.”
Source: Refined: Turning Pain into Purpose
“Joy is a good state to be in. But it is not a life target to be joyful. It is not an aim. It does not exist in the end.It exists now.”
Source: A Lean Mind: Managing the Mind Process to Reach Emotional Balance
“Joy is a great purifier. It burns away many polluted currents trying to reach us.”
“Joy is a humanitarian gift. It is fair to the good and charitable to the bad.”
“Joy is a light that fills you with hope and faith and love.”
“Joy is a man's passage from a lesser to a greater perfection.”
Source: Ethics
“Joy is a marvelous increasing of what exists, a pure addition out of nothingness.”
Source: The Duino Elegies & The Sonnets to Orpheus: A Dual Language Edition
“Joy is a mystery because it can happen anywhere, anytime, even under the most unpromising circumstances, even in the midst of suffering, with tears in its eyes.”
Source: The hungering dark
“Joy is a natural experience that arises when we are free of the endless chatter, planning, and projects of our ego minds”
“Joy is a natural way of being.”
“Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.”
Source: My Life for the Poor
“Joy is a net of love in which you can catch souls.”
“Joy is a part of my process. In fact, I'd go so far as to say that poetry, as a practice, necessitates a sense of joy. It's exhilarating to come into contact with the things we write into being. And a real sense of play and abandon – even when we are relying on hard-won technique, and even when the aim is deadly serious. How often do we get the excuse to stop, think, and then stop thinking altogether and try to listen to what sits behind our outside of our thoughts? Poets are lucky.”
“Joy is a practice, not an involuntary state.”
Source: Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
“Joy is a quiet gladness of heart as one contemplates the goodness of God's saving grace in Christ Jesus.”
“Joy is a return to the deep harmony of body, mind, and spirit that was yours at birth and that can be yours again. That openness to love, that capacity for wholeness with the world around you, is still within you.”
“Joy is a right and liberty of non other than me and you who struggled and fought for it and attained it at last.”
“Joy is a sign of generosity. When you are full of joy, you move faster and you want to go about doing good to everyone.”
Source: Where There Is Love, There Is God: A Path to Closer Union with God and Greater Love for Others
“Joy is a strength; intoxication, a weakness.”
Source: My theatre life
“Joy is a sure sign of the presence of God in your life.”
“Joy is a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace - a connection to what matters.”
“Joy is a very high frequency current of energy with a great deal of energy content. Somebody who is joyful has a lot of energy.”
“Joy is a weapon we use to fight life's battles.”
“Joy is a well-made object, equalled only by the joy of making it.”
“Joy is all around you. It's in the little moments that make life worth living; the sparks that light you up and leave you feeling good to be alive.”
Source: How to Find Joy in Five Minutes a Day: Inspiring Ideas to Boost Your Mood Every Day
“Joy is all there is. The rest is a preoccupation of the ego, unworthy of your holy mind.”
“Joy is always a function of gratitude - and gratitude is always a function of perspective.”
“Joy is always an integral part of loving. There is joy in every act of life, no matter how menial or repetitive. To work in love is to work in joy. To live in love is to live in joy... Why not choose joy?... Why not live in joy?”
“Joy is an abundant currency in God's Kingdom.”
“Joy is an energy, and scientists have found that charging your life up with it boosts your immune system, helps to fight stress and may even help you live longer.”
Source: How to Find Joy in Five Minutes a Day: Inspiring Ideas to Boost Your Mood Every Day
“Joy is as infectious as any disease. When you see a few people dancing, suddenly you feel your feet are ready. You may try to control them, because control has been taught to you, but your body wants to join the dance. Whenever you have an opportunity to laugh, join; whenever you have an opportunity to dance, join; whenever you have an opportunity to sing, sing - and one day you will find you have created your paradise.”
“Joy is at its keenest when contrasted with sorrow, courage at its height when it follows fear, faith at its noblest when it grows from doubt.”
“Joy is based on the spiritual knowledge that, while the world in which we live is shrouded in darkness, God has overcome the world.”
“Joy is being fully aware of reality.”
“Joy is being willing for things to be as they are.”
“Joy is big. Joy lives in your own drunken electrons, billions of them, spinning and dancing without end in their own intimate Universe, longing for You.”
Source: Living Your Yoga: Finding the Spiritual in Everyday Life
“Joy is born in service, misery is born in selfishness.”
Source: Boldly Comes Justice: Sentient Not Silent