--- title: "9 Joy Thought Quotes by 7 authors" description: "Browse 9 Joy Thought quotes by 7 authors. Discover the best Joy Thought sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/72d/kay-foley-81779_imagine_imagine-yourself-filled-with-joy-now-kee_2558268.jpg" --- > [“Imagine yourself filled with JOY. Now keep that thought & it will COME TRUE”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kay-foley/imagine-yourself-filled-with-joy-now-keep-that-thought-it-will-come/) [Kay Foley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kay-foley/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/72d/kay-foley-81779_imagine_imagine-yourself-filled-with-joy-now-kee_2558268.jpg) > [The writer's joy is the thought that can become emotion, the emotion that can wholly become a thought.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-mann/the-writer-s-joy-is-the-thought-that-can-become-emotion-the-emotion/) [Thomas Mann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-mann/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f89/thomas-mann-1103_become_the-writer-s-joy-is-the-thought-that-can_356956.jpg) > [“I regained my couch, but never thought of sleep. Till morning dawned I was tossed on a buoyant but unquiet sea, where…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charlotte-bronte/i-regained-my-couch-but-never-thought-of-sleep-till-morning-dawned-i/) [Charlotte Brontë](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charlotte-bronte/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9d8/charlotte-bronte-144_sleep_i-regained-my-couch-but-never-thought-of_1015990.jpg) > [Elinor could sit still no longer. She almost ran out of the room, and as soon as the door was closed, burst…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/elinor-could-sit-still-no-longer-she-almost-ran-out-of-the-room-and/) [Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/15b/jane-austen-39_doors_elinor-could-sit-still-no-longer-she-alm_2730602.jpg) > [“I was tossed on a buoyant but unquiet sea, where billows of trouble rolled under surges of joy. I thought sometimes I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charlotte-bronte/i-was-tossed-on-a-buoyant-but-unquiet-sea-where-billows-of-trouble/) [Charlotte Brontë](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charlotte-bronte/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0eb/charlotte-bronte-144_hope_i-was-tossed-on-a-buoyant-but-unquiet-se_753238.jpg) > [“I regained my couch, but never thought of sleep. Till morning dawned I was tossed on a buoyant but unquiet sea, where…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charlotte-bronte/i-regained-my-couch-but-never-thought-of-sleep-till-morning-dawned-i-2/) [Charlotte Brontë](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charlotte-bronte/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2c0/charlotte-bronte-144_joy_i-regained-my-couch-but-never-thought-of_2590196.jpg) > [“But, my God, how could I have thought it? How could I have been so blind, when everything had been taken by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fyodor-dostoyevsky/but-my-god-how-could-i-have-thought-it-how-could-i-have-been-so-blind/) [Fyodor Dostoyevsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fyodor-dostoyevsky/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/77a/fyodor-dostoyevsky-94_another-man_but-my-god-how-could-i-have-thought-it-h_2218640.jpg) > [“Sometimes now when you crawl into my lap and settle against me and I feel that light, quick strength of your body…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marilynne-robinson/sometimes-now-when-you-crawl-into-my-lap-and-settle-against-me-and-i/) [Marilynne Robinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marilynne-robinson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/514/marilynne-robinson-602_adulthood_sometimes-now-when-you-crawl-into-my-lap_756818.jpg) > [“Formerly...when he tried to do anything for the good of everybody, for humanity...for the whole village, he had noticed that the thoughts…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leo-tolstoy/formerly-when-he-tried-to-do-anything-for-the-good-of-everybody-for/) [Leo Tolstoy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leo-tolstoy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ded/leo-tolstoy-55_advice_formerly-when-he-tried-to-do-anything-fo_3083592.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/joy-thought/#itemlist", "name": "Joy Thought Quotes", "numberOfItems": 9, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Imagine yourself filled with JOY. 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