"Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough." ~ Emily Dickinson
Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. ~ Mother Teresa
Joy seems to me a step beyond happiness is a sort of atmosphere you can live in sometimes when you're lucky. Joy is a light that fills you with hope and faith and love.." ~ Adela Rogers St. Johns
The most profound joy has more of gravity than of gaiety in it. ~ Michel de Montaigne
Desire joy and thank God for it. Renounce it, if need be, for other's sake. That's joy beyond joy.~ Robert Browning
When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. ~ Kahlil Gibran
Do not look for rest in any pleasure, because you were not created for pleasure: you were created for Joy. And if you do not know the difference between pleasure and joy you have not yet begun to live. ~ Thomas Merton
We French found it and called it joie de vivre -- the joy of living. ~ Renee Repound
We should all do what in the long run gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry. ~ E.B. White
Find joy in simplicity, self-respect, and indifference to what lies between virtue and vice. Love the human race. Follow the divine. ~ Marcus Aurelius