Okwu ọṅụ na-ezo aka na mmetụta nke ọdịmma, ihe ịga nke ọma, ma ọ bụ ezi ihu ọma, a na-ejikọkwa ya na mmetụta nke obi ụtọ siri ike, nke na-adịgide adịgide.[1]

Ịchị ọchị, dị ka nke ụmụaka Bangladesh ndịa, bụ ngosipụta nke ọṅụ.

Nkọwa okwu nke ọṅụ na-agụnyekarị mmetụta nke ịbụ mmeghachi omume na ihe na-eme na ezí, dịka mmetụta anụ ahụ, ma ọ bụ ịnata ozi ọma.[2][3]

C. S. Lewis saw a clear distinction between joy, pleasure, and happiness: "I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for Joy",[4] and "I call it Joy, which is here a technical term and must be sharply distinguished both from Happiness and Pleasure. Joy (in my sense) has indeed one characteristic, and one only, in common with them; the fact that anyone who has experienced it will want it again... I doubt whether anyone who has tasted it would ever, if both were in his power, exchange it for all the pleasures in the world. But then Joy is never in our power and Pleasure often is."[5]

Michela Summa na-ekwu na ọdịiche dị na etiti ọṅụ na obi ụtọ bụ na, "ọṅụ na e

"Mgbe uche dị ọcha, ọṅụ na-eso dị ka onyinyo nke na-adịghị apụ apụ. - Gautama Buddha,[6]

"[Ọṅụ bụ] akụkụ mmetụta uche nke ezi ndụ, nke ndụ nke na-aga nke ọma ma na-ebi nke ọma" - Miroslav Volf[7]

"Nke a bụ ezi ọṅụ na ndụ, ihe eji eme ihe maka ebumnuche nke onwe gị ghọtara dị ka onye dị ike; ihe ike gwụrụ kpamkpam tupu a tụba gị n'elu ihe mkpofu; ịbụ ike nke Okike kama ịbụ obere ọrịa na mkpesa na-eme mkpesa na ụwa agaghị etinye onwe ya n'ime ka ị nwee obi ụtọ. " - George Bernard Shaw[8]

  1. Definition of JOY (en). www.merriam-webster.com. Retrieved on 2021-11-21.
  2. https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/joy
  3. https://www.dictionary.com/browse/joy
  4. Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life. (p. 169) Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Kindle Edition.
  5. Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life. (p. 18) Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Kindle Edition.
  6. A quote by Gautama Buddha. Goodreads.com. Retrieved on 21 November 2017.
  7. Volf (Spring 2016). Joy and Human Flourishing. Fortress Press, 133. ISBN 978-1-4514-8207-2. 
  8. Man and Superman - Wikiquote. En.wikiquote.org. Retrieved on 21 November 2017.