Joy Quotes

Artists know that you can take an advertising sign and make something joyful with it. It's sometimes hard for people who don’t make things to understand labor and joy and attention and whimsy.

How come pleasure never makes it on to... a dutiful list of do's and don'ts? Doesn't joy also get soft and flabby if you neglect to exercise it?

You must take chances. If you do nothing, you reduce the possibilities you have for greater joy.

Shared joy is increased, shared pain is lessened.

The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.

In joy, in peace, in that soothing inner state, you will find happiness.

Don't explain, enjoy.

Be the holder of your own Nature. It is a joyful responsibility.

Pleasure's a Moth, that sleeps by day And dances by false glare at night; But Joy's a Butterfly, that loves To spread its wings in Nature's light.

Have the will to be well, to be happy, and to live in joy.

The path to joy leads through despair.

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the gods; desired by those who have no part in him, and precious to those who have the better part in him.

My work gives me a sense of purpose that I never really had before - it gives me a lot of joy, and it would be wonderful to invite other people to get involved.

The purpose of your life is Joy.

I love being on stage or in front of the camera. My work brings me a lot of joy. It helps me figure out who I am. I'm really lucky that I get to make a living at acting.

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.

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

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

Without joy in your life you are powerless.

Anyone who has discovered Christ must lead others to him. A great joy cannot be kept to oneself. It has to be passed on.

I want the joy of knowing that I am doing something with my life, the joy of battle.

True joy is a serene and sober motion; and they are miserably out so that take laughing for rejoicing; the seat of it is within, and there is no cheerfulness like the resolutions of a brave mind.

The weeping of an heir is laughter in disguise.

No matter what size you are, you must be healthy. I focus on health as a model, whether it's doing yoga, hiking, kickboxing - those things bring me joy.

For lawless joys a bitter ending waits.

Geometry alone is not enough to portray human desires, expressions, aspirations, joys. We need more.

Teaching to unsuspecting youngsters the effective use of formal methods is one of the joys of life because it is so extremely rewarding.

The Christian... imagines the better future of the human species... in the image of heavenly joy... We, on the other hand, will have this heaven on earth.

I paint my joy and I sing my sorrow.

One joy dispels a hundred cares.

Aioli epitomizes the heat, the power, and the joy of the Provencal sun, but it has another virtue -- it drives away flies.

Do what you do for the sheer joy of it, Do what you choose,not what someone else chooses for you.

The pain of sacrificing our old selves is nothing compared to the joy of Christ living in us in our transformed lives.

the more one advances, the more one sees the goal is still far off. And now I am simply resigned to see myself always imperfect and in this I find my joy.

I have no other wish in this world but to find light and joy and peace through Hinduism.

The glow of satisfaction which follows the consciousness of doing our level best never comes to a human being from any other experience.

Whoever commits to paper what he suffers becomes a melancholy author: but he becomes a serious author when he tells us what he suffered and why he now reposes in joy.

The best work is done with the heart breaking, or overflowing.

You have a freedom in playing the villain. You can be a lot more out there, really. And there is a joy in that. There is a joy in kind of making a zone of psychoses.

Pain is short, and joy is eternal.

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.

A joy that is shared is a joy made double.

Every noble life becomes a revelation of the spirit which the love and joy of mankind cannot let perish from remembrance.

And then there is the universal role of adult. When you play that role, you take yourself and life very seriously. Spontaneity, lightheartedness, and joy are not part of that role.

She gave up beauty in her tender youth, gave all her hope and joy and pleasant ways; she covered up her eyes lest they should gaze on vanity, and chose the bitter truth.

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

If you are fully aligned with your soul it will be your pleasure, your joy to always move toward cooperation, toward sharing, toward reverence for life. You will not be torn.