Each week I will post quotes from a different virtue. Last week’s virtue was accountability. This week’s virtue is joyfulness. Joyfulness is the emotion of great happiness induced by happiness, achievement, or fortuity.
10 Quotes on Joyfulness
- “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
- “I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy”― Rabindranath Tagore
- “Music… will help dissolve your perplexities and purify your character and sensibilities, and in time of care and sorrow, will keep a fountain of joy alive in you”― Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- “Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile”– Sir Wilfred Grenfell
- “We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves”—Buddha
- “When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy” ― Rumi
- “Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are”― Marianne Williamson
- “Joy is prayer – Joy is strength – Joy is love – Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls” —Mother Teresa
- “Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams”― Ashley Smith
- “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. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight” —Khalil Gibran
