Finding Joy Quotes

“When you think this pain is all you deserve, you are right. You are the only one that can decide how long you will walk in hell.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“My plea is that we stop seeking out the storms and enjoy more fully the sunlight...I am asking that we look a little deeper for the good, that we still our voices of insult and sarcasm, that we more generously compliment and endorse virtue and effort.”
― Gordon B. Hinckley

“Why wait? So precious is this life—this gift—this temporary blindness. Burn and drown and embrace the false dark, then grasp the unthinkable height of resulting joy. For in the end, in the light of truth when the flesh is cast off, there is nothing but this.”
― Jennifer DeLucy

“Yes, the world is full of unspeakable cruelty. But the answer wasn't to never feel hope, or bliss, or love-but to savor every fleeting, precious second of those feelings when they came.”
― Katherine Center, Things You Save in a Fire

“Beneath the rust and grime which dulls the shine of our weathered hearts, joy patiently waits to be rediscovered”
― John Mark Green

“I'm telling you. I know all about darkness. That's why I am so hell-bent, every damn day, on looking for the light.”
― Katherine Center, What You Wish For

“Unhappiness comes from living the life of two people--the one people want you to be and the one you want to be.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Love is a journey and a destination - long and excruciating on the way, unexpected and ecstatic if found.”
― Stewart Stafford

“A Real Mom:
Emotional, yet the rock.
Tired, but keeps going.
Worried, but full of hope.
Impatient, yet patient.
Overwhelmed, but never quits.
Amazing, even though doubted.
Wonderful, even in the chaos.
Life changer, every single day.”
― Rachel Marie Martin

“True happiness is found in the simple moments we share, where laughter comes easy and worries fade away.”
― Rendi Ansyah, Beyond the Bouquet: A Symphony of Love in Fifty Movements

“I've never seen a nation more quick at finding joy in a sad situation than the Irish at a funeral.”
― E.A. Bucchianeri, Vocation of a Gadfly

“Happiness already exists in your life. All you need to do is tune into it. And you can start doing that right now.”
― Anthon St. Maarten

“Life was never meant to be a race, rather a journey—to be enjoyed with God, and shared with those we love. These are the things that make life meaningful, leaving us satisfied, rather than wanting.”
― Leila Grandemange, Pawz and Pray: Finding Joy in the Journey with God, Family, and Furry Friends! 130 Inspiring Stories and Devotions for Dog Lovers

“Absolute devotion to God leads to absolute joy!”
― Leila Grandemange, Pawz and Pray: Finding Joy in the Journey with God, Family, and Furry Friends! 130 Inspiring Stories and Devotions for Dog Lovers

“Do the Thing that Makes your Heart Sing”
― Deborah Jane Sutton, Heal Yourself to Happiness: A Simple Guide to Raising your Vibrations and achieving the Health, Prosperity and Love you Desire

“Breathe sweet mom.

Your kids need you. Not perfect. But you.

With your worries.

And your laughs. And your fails. And your try agains.

Your love.

Your showing up.

That’s what matters.

Breathe, sweet mom.”
― Rachel Marie Martin, The Brave Art of Motherhood: Fight Fear, Gain Confidence, and Find Yourself Again

“Instead of pursuing happiness, pursue God, and happiness will find you, deep in your soul.”
― Leila Grandemange, Pawz and Pray: Finding Joy in the Journey with God, Family, and Furry Friends! 130 Inspiring Stories and Devotions for Dog Lovers

“Because joy isn't dependent on you or even the good things in life, like a wonderful husband. It's dependent on God, and on you being reconciled with Him. It's rooted in a deep knowing that no matter what happens in this life, you have someone you can hold on to even when you are drowning".”
― Lindsay Harrel, The Joy of Falling

“There can't be joy until there is gratitude.”
― Melissa Ambrosini, Mastering Your Mean Girl: The No-BS Guide to Silencing Your Inner Critic and Becoming Wildly Wealthy, Fabulously Healthy, and Bursting with Love

“When we come from a place of the heart - there is so much attraction and liveliness! The more LOVE in our heart, the more we radiate that liveliness. Love is about radiance. Radiating attractive power. Growing our self, our ability to radiate love, to be attractive with our energy is the easiest way of finding JOY and keeping it... That will draw from the universe and others, many things to us, and also even more and SO much more love into our life.”
― Angie karan

“How we spend our days," author Annie Dillard writes, is "how we spend our lives." Rather than waiting until we're happy to enjoy the small things, we should go and do the small things that make us happy. After a depressing divorce, a friend of mine made a list of things she enjoyed--listening to musicals, seeing her nieces and nephews, looking at art books, eating flan--and made a vow to do one thing on the list after work each day. As blogger Tim Urban describes it, happiness is the joy you find on hundreds of forgettable Wednesdays.”
― Sheryl Sandberg, Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy

“Carry on, brave mother who tries when she’s tired.
Carry on, brave mother who gives unconditionally.
carry on, Brave mother who cries because she loves.
Carry on, brave mother who hopes without answers.
Carry on, Brave mother who loves without expectations.
Carry on, Brave mother.
Carry on.”
― Rachel Marie Martin, The Brave Art of Motherhood: Fight Fear, Gain Confidence, and Find Yourself Again

“A PET scan of his brain activity showed diminished capacity on the left side of his brain, hence, planning ahead, strategic thinking is harmed. A positive is that he is less critical of things. He has lost language and gained singing... THAT makes for more fun.
What amazes me is that so many times he returns and talks and seems to think like he used to. His voice and laugh returns to normal. How can that be???”
― Susan Straley, Alzheimer's Trippin' with George: Diagnosis to Discovery in 10,000 Miles

“Joy isn’t if/then: it’s when/then.

When you invite and expect more joy, then you’re certain to find it.

Entertain fear, anger, resentment, etc., and you will surely find those, too.”
― Kelly Corbet, BIG: the practice of joy

“What is happiness versus joy? We all have moments of joy. Happiness is when one can be content between those moments.”
― Jeramie Curtice

“Life is very uncertain, and, at the same time, we cannot prevent something which is certain. But the choice lies in our hands whether to let wither ourselves or to make the best of a moment.”
― Arshia Mittal

“Truth is a priceless treasure, but worthless if buried. Value simplicity. Pause to smell a rose, preferably planted by your hand, for it will smell sweeter. Toil builds character; heartache tests our fortitude. The key to happiness is forgiveness, forgiving ourselves most of all.”
― Michelle Muriel, Westland

“This is the place where I want to be young
To breathe the beginning breath
Through newborn lungs
To run barefoot chasing butterflies
To sleep beneath wondrous skies
To stand on stony mountains
Far above the birch and pine
Looking down at all about me
I’ll call this world mine
…..
When the wild wind sings
I will hear its song
That beckons to my heart,
Tells me that I belong
And all these hills and every tree
Become a part of my story
…..
Yet, as the pages of a story grow
Characters learn, develop, go
May it be granted, if I leave
If I change in any way
That this place will always remain
The same as I saw it today
…..
If my feet wander
If life’s paths take me far
Time may alter youthful face
But let not it change a tree or star
Let not it touch a leaf
Nor a river, nor a stream
Or raise a cloak of shadow
Over even one sunbeam
The years may not lift their hand
To crumble any stone
Or free their feet to trample
Fields where flowers have grown
…..
If I tarry long
The song will bring me back
If in the journey I am lost
The wind will steer my track
I will be changed when I come
Grey hair and marred face
But the hills will recall
That I am one with this place
Standing, just the way I used to
Upon the mountain height
Breathing, just the way I once did
The crisp, star filled night
And praying, just the way I always have
That I might be young here.”


— ‘Where I Want to Be Young”
― Kya Rayne, One Bird Singing

“The joys of life are always in a comparative relation to our fears.”
― Andrew Pacholyk, Lead Us To A Place: Your Spiritual Journey Through Life's Seasons

“We didn't come [to this life] only for the sunny days, the lollipops and roses! We also came for the silky dark nights, and the moonlight and the stars. We came for the soft veils of fog in the early mornings, and the rain painting circles in the pond... the hailstorms and the thunderclaps.”
― Elke Heinrich