Joy Quotes
These days cry out, as never before, for us to pay attention, so we can move through them and get our joy and pride back.
God causes us to promise in time of peace what He exacts from us in time of war; He enables us to make our abandonments in joy, but He requires the fulfilment of them in the midst of much bitterness.
I hid myself within myself ... and quietly wrote down all my joys, sorrows and contempt in my diary.
Understanding of our fellow human beings...becomes fruitful only when it is sustained by sympathetic feelings in joy and sorrow.
The Angel that presided o'er my birth Said, 'Little creature, formed of joy and mirth, Go love without the help of any thing on earth'.
The joy about our work is spoiled when we perform it not because of what we produce but because of the pleasure with which it can provide us, or the pain against which it can protect us.
Joy is always a function of gratitude - and gratitude is always a function of perspective.
You're happy when you leave your concerns to the side and when you experience a pure moment of joy with friends.
The more you go within, the more you understand your true nature, and the more joy and happiness you feel in your life.
I believe the cinema is one of our principal forms of art. It is an incredibly powerful way to tell uplifitng stories that can move people to cry with joy and inspire them to reach for the stars.
A Christian is one who is invited... to join in the feast, to the joy of being saved, to the joy of being redeemed, to the joy of sharing life with Christ. This is a joy! You are called to a party!
It is the same life that emerges in joy through the dust of the earth into numberless waves of flower.
Anger devours almost all other good emotions. It deadens the soul. It numbs the heart to joy and gratitude and hope and tenderness and compassion and kindness.
There is more healing joy in five minutes of true worship than in five nights of revelry.
Each day brings its own colours to be chosen, mixed, pigments of joy, happy moments, smiles and laughter.... And which will you choose? For 'Life' is choice.
The Gospel purifies and renews, it bears fruit, wherever the community of believers hears it and receives God’s grace in truth and charity. This is my confidence, this is my joy.
Find joy in simplicity, self-respect, and indifference to what lies between virtue and vice. Love the human race. Follow the divine.
When we imagine the power of all our sisters standing together on the shoulders of a quality education - our joy knows no bounds.
I think people's perception of a rich girl is literal, but metaphorically I embrace it as being rich in love, spirit, joy and religion. So it's not about money.
Nobody really cares if you’re miserable, so you might as well be happy, and make the most of where you are
If there are occasions when my grape turned into a raisin and my joy bell lost its resonance, please forgive me. Charge it to my head and not to my heart.
Your pain is a school unto itself–– and your joy a lovely temple.
There is nothing dreary or doubtful about (the life). It is meant to be continually joyful...We are called to a settled happiness in the Lord whose joy is our strength.
Embrace fanaticism. Harness joie de vivre by pursuing insane interests, consuming passions, and constant sources of gratification that do not depend on the approval of others
Nothing gives me quite so much joy as when people tell me they've had their pets spayed or neutered.
There are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind them when they go.
And priests in black gowns were walking their rounds and binding with briars my joys and desires. (from 'The Garden of Love')
There is only one sin - lack of love. Be brave, be capable of loving, even if love seems a terrible and treacherous thing. Find joy in love. Find joy in victory. Follow the dictates of your heart.
Our earliest efforts will be heard with joy by our Heavenly Father, however they are phrased.
Life, when fully lived under a variety of cultural conditions, can be euphoric and optimistic; it can be a joy to experience and a wonder to behold.
Be rightly related to God, find your joy there, and out of you will flow rivers of living water.
I have pleasures, and passions, but the joy of life is gone. I am going under: the morgue yawns for me. I go and look at my zinc-bed there. After all, I had a wonderful life, which is, I fear, over.
As believers, our joy and peace are not based in doing and achieving, but in believing. Joy and peace come as a result of building our relationship with the Lord.
How will you become free? With a quiet mind Come into that empty house, your heart, And feel the joy of the way Beyond the world. Look within - The rising and the falling.
Joy is connection... The more areas in your life you can make connection, the better.
All times are beautiful for those who maintain joy within them; but there is no happy or favorable time for those with disconsolate or orphaned souls.
