Joy Quotes - Continued: Joy is a Choice

Those who gave thee a body, furnished it with weakness; but He who gave thee Soul, armed thee with resolution. Employ it, and thou art wise; be wise and thou art happy.

Akhenaton


There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.
Aeschylus


A real education will not teach you to be the first. It will tell you to enjoy whatever you are doing, not for the result, but for the act itself.
Osho


My motto is that I enjoy life. I think there's a kind of simplicity to that way of thinking.
Jenna Elfman


Joy and sorrow are inseparable - together they come and when one sits alone with you, remember that the other is asleep upon your bed.
Kahlil Gibran


Success is following the pattern of life one enjoys most.
Al Capp


The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic, or intellectual, forms a bridge between the sharers which can be the basis for understanding much of what is not shared between them, and lessens the threat of their difference.
Audre Lorde


Don't move the way fear makes you move.Move the way love makes you move.Move the way joy makes you move.
Osho


Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.
Joseph Addison

We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.
Helen Keller


The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.
Pearl Buck


I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.
John Rockefeller


Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
Mark Twain


Once you have started seeing the beauty of life, ugliness starts disappearing. If you start looking at life with joy, sadness starts disappearing. You cannot have heaven and hell together, you can have only one. It is your choice.
Osho


The first and most important step,is intention: making the decision to be happy.
James Baraz


Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.
William Shakespeare


The joy of a spirit is the measure of its power.
Ninon de Lenclos


Indeed, there is ample evidence that a joy-filled workplace improves financial performance.
Dennis Bakke


We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
Kahlil Gibran


Give not over thy soul to sorrow; and afflict not thyself in thy own counsel. Gladness of heart is the life of man and the joyfulness of man is length of days.
Ecclesiastes