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Quotes about joy and delighting in small things. This hand-picked collection brings together 30 of the finest joy quotes ever written — from Rumi, Buddha, Friedrich Nietzsche and other great voices. Tap Copy on any quote to save or share it.

When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.

— Rumi

The body heals with play, the mind heals with laughter, and the spirit heals with joy.

When you realize how perfect everything is you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky.

— Buddha

In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Mix a little foolishness with your prudence: it is good to be silly at the right moment.

— Horace

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading!

— Jane Austen

The ocean stirs the heart, inspires the imagination and brings eternal joy to the soul.

The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.

We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

— George Bernard Shaw

Joy is the serious business of Heaven.

— C. S. Lewis

A wife is the joy of a man's heart.

Spring is nature's way of saying, 'Let's party!'

We didn't realise we were making memories. We just knew we were having fun.

Time you enjoy wasting was not wasted.

— John Lennon

With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.

— William Wordsworth

Comparison is the thief of joy.

— Theodore Roosevelt

Dance, when you're broken open. Dance, if you've torn the bandage off.

— Rumi

Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.

I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.

— Thomas Edison

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

— Bertrand Russell

The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.

— Charles Dickens

To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.

— Mark Twain

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

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

— Leonardo da Vinci

A thing of beauty is a joy for ever.

— John Keats

Weekends don't count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless.

When we are children, we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves.

Thankfulness is the quickest path to joy.

Friday is here — let your heart be glad and your feet be ready to dance.

A daughter is a bundle of firsts that excite and delight, giggles that come from deep inside.

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