Joy Quotes

Freedom is the world of joy.

A famous man is Robin Hood, The English ballad-singer's joy.

If there had been no fear of failure, neither would there be any joy in success.

To no man make yourself a boon companion: Your joy will be less but less will be your grief

The happiness and the joy that I see in the eyes of the children. They saved my life so I want to, give it back. I'm not joking.

Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.

Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow.

We laugh, that we may not cry.

God favors men and women who delight in being made worthy of happiness before the happiness itself.

It is a fine seasoning for joy to think of those we love.

Find joy and peace in this very moment.

If we are truly in love with Christ and if we sense how much he loves us, our heart will 'light up' with a joy that spreads to everyone around us.

Joy is the clearest indicator of deep wellness.

I think our animals are angels, earth-angels, pointing out for us the steadfast path of love, loyalty, optimism, faith, joy, hope. They teach us everything important about life.

For many students, school is an obligation, not a joy and a privilege. This means you need to ‘sell’ the learning to them.

I use the term happiness to refer to the experience of joy, contentment, or positive well-being, combined with a sense that one's life is good, meaningful, and worthwhile.

Let me just say, at once: I am not now nor have I ever been a white man. And, leaving aside the joys of unearned privilege, this leaves me feeling pretty good.

What gives you pleasure and joy? Let those be the things that lead you forward in life.

How can a bird that is born for joy Sit in a cage and sing?

Whoever has known the love of God loves the whole world and never murmurs against his fate, for the burden of sorrow for the sake of God gains eternal joy.

Prayer is the fruit of joy and thankfulness.

If we want to find happiness, let's stop thinking about gratitude or ingratitude and give for the inner joy of giving.

An old man was asked what had robbed him of joy in his life. His reply was, "Things that never happened."

Our joy does not have to be based on our circumstances.

I mean it's the writing, not the being read, that excites me.

The joy sometimes is in the simple beauty.

And I leave you now, not with sadness but with satisfaction and joy that we came together and walked, arm in arm, through this brief moment of eternity. Who could ask for more?

Fear pounds on the door to our heart demanding to be let in. Joy is modest and often comes into our lives like a shy person entering a room; it can take a while to even notice it's there.

Your calling is where your own greatest joy intersects with the needs of the world.

One should not wish to enjoy where one does not give joy.

Holding someone's hand was always my idea of joy.

Now and then it is a joy to have one's table red with wine and roses.

Wine is inspiring and adds greatly to the joy of living.

Once you have heard a strange audience burst into laughter at a film you directed, you realize what the word joy is all about.

My wife has brought great beauty into my life. And my daughter has brought me nothing but joy. Those qualities were greatly lacking.

Healthy church membership means you find your joy in being last, instead of seeking your way and being first.

Our mind is full of anger, jealousy and other negative feelings. Yet we do not realize that these are incompatible with inner peace and joy.

It takes courage to reinvent joys, to reinvent opportunities, to reinvent dreams, to reinvent connections, to reinvent hopes that you have set aside.

I make music because of the love and joy of it and I try to make music to take you to a feel-good place and remind you that maybe there's a brighter day.

Christmas! The very word brings joy to our hearts.

Your incredible brain can take you from rags to riches, from loneliness to popularity, and from depression to happiness and joy - if you use it properly.

I think you can measure how pathetic your life is by how much joy you get from learning about other people's faults and troubles.

When people love each other, they are content with very little. When we have light and joy in our hearts, we don't need material wealth. The most loving communities are often the poorest.

Put down your cell phones, put everything away, and feel your blood pulsing in you, feel your creative impulse, feel your own spirit, your heart, your mind. Feel the joy of being alive and free.

Our joy in Him may be a fluctuating thing: His joy in us knows no change.

For art and joy go together, with bold openness, and high head, and ready hand - fearing naught and dreading no exposure.

One of the joys of reading is the ability to plug into the shared wisdom of mankind.

Regardless of your age, you will always have adventures, unexpected joys and unexpected sorrows.

To be with God is really to be involved in some enormous, overwhelming desire, and joy, and power which you cannot control, which controls you.

In the spiritual life only one thing produces genuine joy and that is obedience.