Joy Quotes

For one pain endured with joy, we shall love the good God more forever.

Youth's the season made for joys, Love is then our duty.

People come and go, pain comes and goes. But so does joy. And if our hearts are closed because we don't want to suffer, they won't be open enough to recognize the joy as it flies by.

Love isn't material. It's energy... We experience it as kindness, giving, mercy, compassion, peace, joy, acceptance, non-judgment, joining and intimacy.

If Christ Jesus be the periode, the end and the lodging-home at the end of your journey, there is no fear ye go to a friend . . . ye may look death in the face with joy.

Don't move the way fear makes you move. Move the way love makes you move. Move the way joy makes you move.

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.

With all your music, loud and lustily, With every dainty joy of sight and smell, Prepare a banquet meet to entertain The Lord of Thunder, that hath set you free From old oppression.

Now shall my inward joys arise, And burst into a song; Almighty love inspires my heart, And pleasure tunes my tongue.

But Mousie, thou art no thy lane In proving foresight may be vain The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men Gang aft agley An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain For promis'd joy!

The Resurrection is the eucatastrophe of the story of the Incarnation - This story begins and ends in joy.

A sense of the unknown has always lured mankind and the greatest of the unknowns of today is outer space. The terrors, the joys and the sense of accomplishment are epitomized in the space program.

You wanted happiness, I can’t blame you for that, and maybe a mouth sounds idiotic when it blathers on about joy but tell me you love this, tell me you’re not miserable.

I call for a collective adventure in generalized joy and freely interdependent exuberance.

Focus on where you are instead of where you wish you were. The joy will follow.

Pleasure is just a shadow of joy. When there is no joy in you, you become a pleasure seeker.

Adversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the bitter joy of responsibility.

O, it's die we must, but it's live we can, And the marvel of earth and sun Is all for the joy of woman and man And the longing that makes them one." (Between the Dusk of a Summer Night, 13-16)

You feel completely in control when you hear a wave of laughter coming back at you that you have caused.

Love, in the divine alchemy of life, transmutes all duties into privileges, all responsibilities into joys.

The surest mark of a Christian is not faith, or even love, but joy.

Two things I do value a lot, intimacy and the capacity for joy, didn't seem to be on anyone else s list. I felt like the stranger in a strange land, and decided I'd better not marry the natives.

Ask to know what you are born to do. Follow the compass of joy.

Never read Who Moved My Cheese in the workplace when you can read The Joy of Not Working.

Men are that they might have joy . . . not guilt trips.

The joy a person is usually seen to express at the conversion of another to his opinion is seldom more than the impulse of egotistical satisfaction at being considered worthy of didactic imitation.

That's the great paradox of living on this earth, that in the midst of great pain you can have great joy as well. If we didn't have those things we'd just be numb.

The joy which answers to prayer give, cannot be described; and the impetus which they afford to the spiritual life is exceedingly great.

Your life's work begins when your great joy meets the world's great hunger.

Nothing can take your joy; you have to give it away. You're in complete control of your happiness.

May Christ be our joy, our confidence, our all. May we daily be made more like to Him, and more devoted to His service.

My mother's greatest joy in life was to make people laugh. Although that is difficult to do right now, I know her final wish would be that we return to laughing soon.

We are not disillusioned because we have no illusions... What we have and what is our strength, is our joy in life... in all its amoral aspects. That is also the basis of our contemporary art.

Life consists of two sides ... light and dark. Joy and sorrow. Without a balance, one cannot fully experience a full and well-rounded life.

Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.

Acting is about communicating what it is like to be human: the pain, the laughs, the misery, the joy. I suppose I am searching to have it all.

Unceasing change turns the wheel of life, and so reality is shown in all it's many forms. Dwell peacefully as change itself liberates all suffering sentient beings and brings them great joy.

You shall have joy, or you shall have power, said God; you shall not have both.

Every soul is beautiful and precious; is worthy of dignity and respect, and deserving of peace, joy and love.

There is no joy equal to that of being able to work for all humanity and doing what you're doing well.

There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.

To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.

So, to really execute design in its highest form and making people feel joy, that's a great reward.

Use those talents you have. You will make it. You will give joy to the world. Take this tip from nature: The woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except those who sang best.

Deep, contended joy comes from a place of complete security and confidence [in God] - even in the midst of trial.

The Bible teaches that true joy is formed in the midst of the difficult seasons of life.

O the joy of the strong-brawn'd fighter, towering in the arena in perfect condition, conscious of power, thirsting to meet his opponent.

There’s danger in thinking joy is a matter of location. If we can’t find joy where we are, we probably won’t find it anywhere.

Self-disciplin e is necessary, but so is playfulness, flexibility, joy. When you stop demanding perfection of yourself, your writing desk will become a spacious place.

People search for joy everywhere not knowing that the Self is the source of all joy