Joy is a sign of generosity. When you are full of joy, you move faster and you want to go about doing good to everyone.

Joy is inexplicable peace that comes from within.

Whatever life gives to you, you can respond with joy. Joy is the happiness that does not depend on what happens. It is the grateful response to the opportunity that life offers you at this moment

Happiness is the feeling that power increases - that resistance is being overcome.

Joy is the infallible sign of the presence of God.

Joy is the net of love by which we can capture souls. God loves the person who gives with joy. Whoever gives with joy gives more. The best way to show our gratitude to God and to people is to accept with joy.

Joy is a man's passage from a lesser to a greater perfection.

Joy must be one of the pivots of our life. It is the token of a generous personality. Sometimes it is also a mantle that clothes a life of sacrifice and self-giving. A person who has this gift often reaches high summits. He or she is like sun in a community.

Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Joy tends to involve some transcendence of self. It’s when the skin barrier between you and some other person or entity fades away and you feel fused together. Joy is present when mother and baby are gazing adoringly into each other’s eyes, when a hiker is overwhelmed by beauty in the woods and feels at one with nature, when a gaggle of friends are dancing deliriously in unison. Joy often involves self-forgetting.

The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

That strength is empowered by hope. You could say that hope is the power to believe in the future.

Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.

Joy is a power, and the poor followed Jesus because power dwelled in Him, ‘went forth’ from Him, flowed from His eyes, His hands, His body, totally given, present, to God, to people.