Joy Quotes

I have a lot of respect for Ovechkin as a player. I like his enthusiasm. I know the kid has a zest for life and a joy for the game.

I would be more familiar with Janet Jackson than I was with the Teardrop Explodes or Joy Division, because I didn't want to listen to my competitors for fear of nicking ideas off them.

Embracing our vulnerabilities is risky but not nearly as dangerous as giving up on love and belonging and joy.

What brings me the most joy is stories about progressive thinking. When a mother or father accepts their child for whoever they are... when goodness prevails... blah blah blah. I'm a cheese ball.

A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pleasant belongs to dreams.

Pain, sorrow, ignorance are all illusory; they cannot live. Bliss, joy, knowledge are true; they cannot die.

Everything necessary to the full and complete expression of the most boundless experience of joy is mine now.

We were like gods at the dawning of the world, & our joy was so bright we could see nothing else but the other.

Surely joy is the condition of life.

And I feel that we in our society should not be held by any such myth; that we should do everything we can to gain a delight and joy in our society with all the available parts of the palette.

... our natural Will is to have God, and the Good Will of God is to have us; and we may never cease from willing nor from longing till we have Him in fullness of joy: and then may we no more desire.

One thing that I ask of you: Never be afraid of giving. There is a deep joy in giving, since what we receive is much more than what we give.

One by one bright gifts from heaven Joys are sent thee here below; Take them readily when given, Ready, too, to let them go.

Ministry means the ongoing attempt to put one's own search for God, with all the moments of pain and joy, despair and hope, at the disposal of those who want to join this search but do not know how.

In all perception of the truth there is a divine ecstasy, an inexpressible delirium of joy, as when a youth embraces his betrothed virgin.

Do anything, but let it produce joy. Do anything, but let it yield ecstasy.

I can see the humorous side of things and enjoy the fun when it comes; but look where I will, there seems to me always more sadness than joy in life.

Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue.

Whoever loves above all the approach of love will never know the joy of attaining it.

Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because life is sweet and they are growing.

Joys impregnate. Sorrows bring forth.

No man ever threw away life while it was worth keeping.

I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own.

This must be a simply enormous wardrobe!

Knowing God is like listening to beautiful music. His words have power. He lifts me up & soothes my soul. He makes me dance. He gives me joy.

For me, it's a great joy to be together with priests: in the end, the bishop of Rome is the bishop and brother of all priests. His mandate is to confirm the brothers in the faith.

As I grow through love, so grows my joy, ever more present, ever more constant.

The "supreme good" and its attainment -- that is happiness. And joy is: response to happiness.

Nobody understands another's sorrow, and nobody another's joy.

The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just recently fallen in love is undisguisable.

Let every hindrance to joy become the soil out of which joy blossoms.

There is a joy in sorrow which none but a mourner can know.

Each new day is another chapter in the unfolding promise of deliverance and life.

Part of the joy of looking at art is getting in sync in some ways with the decision-making process that the artist used and the record that's embedded in the work.

Begin each day with God. It will change your priorities.

My purpose in performing is to communicate the joy I experience in living.

Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.

I want to thank all the women who have worn my clothes, the famous and the unknown, who have been so faithful to me and given me so much joy.

Performance art is about joy, about making something that's so full of kind of a wild joy that you really can't put into words.

Natural joy brings no headaches and no heartaches.

It is not enough to be happy, it is also necessary that others not be.

I have learned there is no joy without hardship. There is no pleasure without pain. Would we know the comfort of peace without the distress of war?

PAIN was no longer a cause of suffering, but a source of pleasure, Because they were redeeming humanity from its sins. Pain becomes joy, the meaning of life, pleasure.

Love lent me wings; my path was like a stair; A lamp unto my feet, that sun was given; And death was safety and great joy to find; But dying now, I shall not climb to Heaven.

Don't feel bad for one moment about doing what brings you joy.

Prepare yourselves for the roaring voice of the God of Joy!

We never taste a perfect joy; our happiest successes are mixed with sadness.

When I act I try to express the suffering or joy I've known during my lifetime.

Faith comes to intelligence as a light that overflows it with joy and inspires it with a certitude that does away with question.

Then there's the joy of getting your desk clean, and knowing that all your letters are answered, and you can see the wood on it again.