Joy Quotes

Music has been a burden and a joy for as long as I can remember.

May your walls know joy, may every room hold laughter, and every window open to great possibility.

Cynicism is fear posing as confidence; joy is hope let off the leash.

When we lose our tolerance for vulnerability, joy becomes foreboding.

Scientific understanding is our joy. Economic and political understanding is our duty.

...real care means the willingness to help each other in making our brokenness into the gateway to joy.

Joy is the experience of knowing that you are unconditionally loved.

Never let anything so fill you with sorrow as to make you forget the joy of Christ risen.

Beauty is whatever gives joy.

The greatest joy of a Christian is to give joy to Christ.

Body tension will always be present if our good feeing is just ordinary, self-centered happiness. Joy has no tension in it, because joy accepts whatever is as it is.

I believe that pain and suffering can either be a prison or a prism.

Of the good things given between man and man, I say that a neighbor, true and loving in heart, to neighbor is a joy beyond all things else.

Remember that your natural state is joy.

It is safe to be me. I love life. I am always safe and secure. I move forward in life with joy and ease. All is well in my world.

Joy adapts and changes, but it always endures, even as a flicker of light born of our personal certainty that, when everything is said and done, we are infinitely loved.

Joy, once lost, is pain

I want to remind people of the great and profound joy that can be found in stories, and that stories can connect us to each other, and that reading together changes everybody involved.

When you break into song, it's not about dialogue, it's not about how you would speak in a naturalistic sense-it's about expressing your inner torment or your inner joy.

Challenges exist to be overcome! Let us be realists, but without losing our joy, our boldness and our hope-filled commitment. Let us not allow ourselves to be robbed of missionary vigour!

As we know, our own mother bore us only into pain and dying. But our true mother, Jesus, who is all love, bears us into joy and endless living. Blessed may he be.

Recognize joy when it arrives in the plain brown wrappings of everyday life.

Remember, the first road to God is prayer, the second is joy.

I'm not basically a happy person, but I have all kinds of joy.

Pain has its own noble joy, when it starts a strong consciousness of life, from a stagnant one.

The only thing that really teaches one what life's about the joy of understanding, the joy of coming in contact with what life really signifies - is suffering, affliction.

The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.

What joy there is in hearing yourself think, and to make that thinking into ink.

Sweet babe, in thy face Soft desires I can trace, Secret joys and secret smiles, Little pretty infant wiles.

I tend to find the ecstasy hidden in ordinary joys, because I did not expect those joys to be ordinary to me.

The closer you come to your core, the greater is your joy.

Cultivate Curiosity. If you really want to grow in your lifetime, learn to be as inquisitive as a child. Curious people are never bored, and for them life becomes an unending study of joy.

Without Pain, How Could We Know Joy?

Lovers and mystics are familiar with this sense of grandeur, this taste of joy - in abandoning oneself to the will of others.

We resist Joy on this planet more than we resist war.

Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.

Joy and thanksgiving expressed in prayer and praise according to the Word of God are the heart of the Church's worship.

I understand the joy of having a female actress like Charlotte [Gainsbourg] and watching her give everything, and be able to capture it.

I don't want to find the secret. I'm afraid all the joy will go out of it if I find the secret.

An aspiration is a joy forever, a possession as solid as a landed estate.

Words can not express the joy of new life.

When we numb [hard feelings], we numb joy, we numb gratitude, we numb happiness.

If we lack confidence in each other, and be jealous of each other, our peace will be destroyed. If we cultivate the principles of unshaken confidence in each other, our joy will be full.

Carrying a grudge is a heavy burden. As you forgive, you will feel the joy of being forgiven.

The bringers of joy have always been the children of sorrow.

The surest step toward joy in the morning is virtue in the evening.

Joy is strength- Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. She gives most who gives with Joy.

My deepest gratitude to the Creator for His gift to me...the joy I receive in creating my music.

Count your blessings. A grateful heart attracts more joy, love and prosperity.

Gratitude has a big job to do in us and our hearts. It is one of the chief ways that God infuses joy and resilience into the daily struggle of life.