Joy Quotes

You are an ocean in a drop of dew, all the universes in a thin sack of blood. What are these pleasures then, these joys, these worlds that you keep reaching for, hoping they will make you more alive?

Depression does tremendous damage. Use every ploy you can think of to bring yourself to joy.

Our task is to become our best selves. One of God's greatest gifts to us is the joy of trying again, for no failure ever need be final.

One of the great undiscovered joys of life comes from doing everything one attempts to the best of one's ability. The smallest task, well done, becomes a miracle of achievement.

Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.

We are all sinners. But may the Lord not let us be hypocrites. Hypocrites don’t know the meaning of forgiveness, joy and the love of God.

Go for the sense of inner joy, of inner peace, of inner vision first and then all the other things from the outside appear.

There is indescribable joy, deep satisfaction and an eternal purpose in dying to ourselves and living for Christ.

For every negative that is a disappointment, there is one that is a joy.

I found more joy in sorrow than you could find in joy.

Be content with who you are and where you are, and do whatever you can do to bring to others such contentment, and joy, and understanding that you have managed to find yourself.

Wine rejoices the heart of man and joy is the mother of all virtues.

It was joy, joy, happy joy. Happy, happy joy. A big fat smiley sun rose above the rooftops and beamed down its blessings onto the borough known as Brentford.

We make a god out of whatever we find most joy in. So find your joy in God and be done with all idolatry.

The only lifestyle I'm promoting is the lifestyle of love and friendship. The lifestyle of music, and joy, and fashion. So whoever wants to come and get part of that lifestyle, we accept anybody.

The very nature of Joy makes nonsense of our common distinction between having and wanting.

The music was thunder and joy. Lightning bolts of happiness and praise, foot-stomping, dance-shouting, good-feeling singing from the soul.

The only true measure of success is the amount of joy we are feeling.

Republicans bring out Colin Powell and J.C. Watts because they have no program, no policy. They have no love and no joy. They'd rather take pictures with black children than feed them.

Every cliche about kids is true; they grow up so quickly, you blink and they're gone, and you have to spend the time with them now. But that's a joy.

The things that bring you the greatest joy are in alignment with your purpose.

What joy have I in June's return? My feet are parched-my eyeballs burn, I scent no flowery gust; But faint the flagging zephyr springs, With dry Macadam on its wings, And turns me 'dust to dust.'

Worry has never done anyone any good, and it is very much worse than mere dissipation of psychic energy, for it substantially curtails the joy and fullness of life.

Prayer is an exchange. We leave our burdens, worries and sin in the hands of God. We come away with oil of joy and the garment of praise.

Pleasure is a sensation. It is written into our bodies; it is our experience of delight, of joy. ... Pleasure will become a marker, a compass pointing to emotional true north.

Pain can only feed on pain. Pain cannot feed on joy. It finds it quite indigestible.

Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys.

Inside everyone is a great shout of joy waiting to be born.

Our Vocation is full of joy and peace in the Holy Spirit.

We possess only the happiness we able to understand.

Suffering is a short pain and a long joy.

And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, till the Devil whispered behind the leaves 'It's pretty, but is it Art?'

A thing of beauty is a joy forever.

Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past.

To rejoice in temporal comforts is dangerous, to rejoice in self is foolish, to rejoice in sin is fatal, but to rejoice in God is heavenly.

There may be Peace without Joy, and Joy without Peace, but the two combined make Happiness.

Joy is the realest reality, the fullest life, and joy is always given, never grasped. God gives gifts and I give thanks and I unwrap the gift given: joy.

All cravings are the mind seeking salvation or fulfillment in external things and in the future as a substitute for the joy of Being.

Walk firmly and with joy, without being afraid of stumbling. All your movements are being watched by your allies that will help you when necessary.

There is too much emphasis on technical perfection nowadays, and not enough on what music is actually about - irony, joy, human suffering, love.

One of the advantages of being disorganized is the joy of discovery.

Even the darkest moments of the liturgy are filled with joy, and Ash Wednesday, the beginning of the lenten fast, is a day of happiness, a Christian feast.

The happiness that is genuinely satisfying is accompanied by the fullest exercise of our faculties and the fullest realization of the world in which we live.

Dearest Daughter. I knew you would not be long in coming to me. Joy shall be yours.

Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it yourself. In giving it, you will accumulate a deposit of joy greater than you ever believed possible.

Work, look for peace and calm in work: You will find it nowhere else. Pleasures flit by -- they are only for yourself; work leaves a mark of long-lasting joy, work is for others.

Musical composition should bring happiness and joy to people and make them forget their troubles.

Without order there can be no inner satisfaction. Without inner satisfaction there can be no freedom. Without freedom there is no joy.

Life is a tragedy full of joy.

Release the joy that is inside of another, and you release the joy that is inside of you.