Joy Quotes

The pain of life overrides the joy to the point that joy does not exist.

Forgiveness unleashes joy. It brings peace. It washes the slate clean. It sets all the highest values of love in motion.

Success is clarity of my intention....and reaching that intention while being true to myself and with joy.

When everything goes right a mobile is a piece of poetry that dances with the joy of life and surprise!

A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.

Joy is not gush. Joy is not mere jolliness. Joy is perfect acquiescence ~ acceptance, rest ~ in God’s will, whatever comes.

There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.

Go for the moon. If you don't get it, you'll still be heading for a star. Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of the creative effort.

Oh, how miserable it is to have no one to share your sorrows and joys, and, when your heart is heavy, to have no soul to whom you can pour out your woes.

Ever since there have been men, man has given himself over to too little joy. That alone, my brothers, is our original sin. I should believe only in a God who understood how to dance.

Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.

You will know your vocation by the joy that it brings you. You will know. You will know when it's right.

He who is full of joy is full of love.

But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy.

Run often. Run long. But never outrun your joy of running.

Most seafoods should be simply threatened with heat and then celebrated with joy.

For me, the joy of doing it is doodling when I want to. But if I had to do it, I'd lose the joy.

In whatever sense this year is a new year for you, may the moment find you eager and unafraid, ready to take it by the hand with joy and gratitude.

There are seven emotions: joy, anger, anxiety, adoration, grief, fear, and hate, and if a man does not give way to these he can be called patient.

When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and brings joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Surely there can be no greater joy than that of saving souls.

The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men, Gang aft a-gley, And leave us nought but grief and pain, For promised joy.

Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.

We have within ourselves Enough to fill the present day with joy, And overspread the future years with hope.

When you feel a peaceful joy, that's when you are near truth.

In life, we will always encounter difficult people. Don't allow them to frustrate you or steal your joy.

After the rain, the sun will reappear. There is life. After the pain, the joy will still be here.

A minute to smile and an hour to weep in, A pint of joy to a peck of trouble, And never a laugh but the moans come double; And that is life!

Man's greatest joy is to slay his enemy, plunder his riches, ride his steeds, see the tears of his loved ones and embrace his women

I adore art...when I am alone with my notes, my heart pounds and the tears stream from my eyes, and my emotion and my joys are too much to bear.

To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.

The cyclone ends. The sun returns; the lofty coconut trees lift up their plumes again; man does likewise. The great anguish is over; joy has returned; the sea smiles like a child.

Money cannot purchase joy. It buys temporary distractions.

Running is real. It’s all joy and woe, hard as diamond. It makes you weary beyond comprehension, but it also makes you free.

I have found truly jubilant Christians only in the Bible, in the Underground Church and in prison.

Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.

Spiritual joy arises from purity of the heart and perseverance in prayer.

Our home joys are the most delightful earth affords, and the joy of parents in their children is the most holy joy of humanity.

The victims of injustice in our world do not need our spasms of passion; they need our long obedience in the same direction - our legs and lungs of endurance; And we need sturdy stores of joy.

When our trials come, when we feel pain and suffering, when our tears flow again, it is our joy and comfort to lift our faces heavenward and to go on, standing on the promises of God.

Comparison is the death of joy.

Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.

Don't overlook life's small joys while searching for the big ones.

No soul that seriously and constantly desires joy will ever miss it. Those who seek find. To those who knock it is opened.

This moment exhibits infinite space, but there is a space also wherein all moments are infinitely exhibited, and the everlasting duration of infinite space is another region and room of joys.

Figure out what fuels your joy, then do lots of that

The harder I work the more I live.

'Twas Easter-Sunday. The full-blossomed trees Filled all the air with fragrance and with joy.

Pain is joy when it cries, it's my smile in disguise.

As a columnist, I realize that whatever amount of corruption I expose, half my readers will block it out, although they may get a frisson of joy in the process.