Joy settles as a bird within the heart but has winged its way from the secret place within the head. I am that bird of joy. Therefore, with joy I serve.

^{Alice Bailey}

Earthly language is entirely insufficient to describe what there is of joy, happiness, and loveliness contained in the inner wonders of God.

^{Jacob Boehme}

Serve the Lord with gladness; come into His presence with singing.

^{Psalms 100:2}

Joy is the realization of the truth of Oneness, the oneness of our soul with the world and of the world-soul with the supreme lover.

^{Rabindranath Tagore}

What Joy in rosy waves outpoured,
Flows from the heart of Love, the Lord.

^{Ralph Waldo Emerson}

All the joys of life which Thou holdest, O Mazda, the joys that were, the joys that are, and the joys that shall be. Thou dost apportion all in Thy love for us.

^Zoroaster

Out of the lotus in the head springs the flower of bliss.

Its earliest form is joy.

^{Alice Bailey}

Be joyful, for joy lets in the light….

^{Alice Bailey}

We are not aliens in a strange universe governed by an outside God; we are parts of a developing whole, all enfolded in an embracing and interpenetrating love, of which we too, each to other, sometimes experience the joy too deep for words.

^{Sir Oliver Lodge}

In spite of difficulties, treasure the higher joy of achievement. This joy of achievement must be cultivated in oneself as well as in others. This is most essential, since only in it lies the pledge of the salvation of humanity, the pledge for the approach of the New World! The joy of the future is ordained, but, indeed, the period of waiting at the threshold is always wearisome.

^{Helena Roerich (adapted)}

Learn to feel joy — a joy which is based on the knowledge that humanity has always triumphed and passed onward and forward in spite of apparent failures and the destruction of past civilisations; a joy, which is founded upon the unshakable belief that all men are souls, and that “points of crisis” are factors which are of proven usefulness in calling in the power of that soul, both in the individual man, in a race, or in humanity as a whole; a joy which is related to the bliss which characterises the soul on its own level whereon the form aspects of manifestation do not dominate. Ponder on these thoughts and remember you are grounded in the centre of your Being and can, therefore, see the world truly and with no limited vision; you can stand unperturbed, knowing the end from the beginning and realising that love will triumph.

^{Alice Bailey}

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

^{Albert Einstein}

We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.

^Buddha

Never regard your study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs.

^{Albert Einstein}