Form Quote by Eva Hoffman

There is a curiously sharp sense of joy - or perhaps better expressed, a sense of mild ecstasy - that comes when you find…

— Rollo May

Joy is realized as the natural by-product of the passionate pursuit of something other than happiness.

— Marc Gafni

Joy is a deeply felt contentment that transcends difficult circumstances and derives maximum enjoyment from every good experience.

— Anonymous

Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself.

— Norman Vincent Peale

As I observe my daily life and that of others, I have come to the conclusion that genuine joy is a potent mixture of…

— Tone Bell

My greatest joy comes from creativity: from feeling that I have been able to identify a certain aspect of human nature and crystallise a…

— Alain de Botton

Joy is a condition that is experienced, but it is more than a feeling; it is, primarily, a state of mind.

— J. I. Packer

Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.

— Marianne Williamson

Joy does not come from what you do, it flows into what you do and thus into this world from deep within you.

— Eckhart Tolle

True 'joy' is the difference between just amusing ourselves to death and creating 'meaningful' pleasure.

— Sidney Poitier

Joy bursts in our lives when we go about doing the good at hand and not trying to manipulate things and times to achieve…

— C. S. Lewis

Joy is a marvelous increasing of what exists, a pure addition out of nothingness.

— Rainer Maria Rilke