#joy

Passages on joy from many traditions.

“But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith”

— Galatians 5:22 (KJV) · Christianity · #joy · source

“A merry heart doeth good like a medicine”

— Proverbs 17:22 (KJV) · Judaism · #joy · source

“Let us live happily then, not hating those who hate us!”

— Dhammapada, verse 197 (trans. F. Max Müller) · Buddhism · #joy · source

“If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.”

— Dhammapada, verse 2 (trans. F. Max Müller) · Buddhism · #joy · source

“Is it not pleasant to learn with a constant perseverance and application?”

— Analects 1:1 (trans. James Legge) · Confucianism · #joy · source

“Thou hast made me endless, such is thy pleasure.”

— Rabindranath Tagore, Gitanjali 1 · Hinduism · #joy · source

“The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day runs through the world and dances in rhythmic measures.”

— Rabindranath Tagore, Gitanjali 69 · Hinduism · #joy · source

“The morn of blessedness hath dawned.”

— Rumi, Divani Shamsi Tabriz (trans. R. A. Nicholson), in The Persian Mystics (1907) · Sufism · #joy · source

“With the joyful tidings of light I hail thee: rejoice!”

— Bahá'u'lláh, The Hidden Words, Arabic 33 (trans. Shoghi Effendi) · Baha'i · #joy · source

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