Joy Quotes

People are responsible for their own joy.

Holy joy will be oil to the wheels of our obedience.

The spirit is the only thing that is free within, which has no hang-ups, which has no habits, which does not stick on to anything, is completely detached and emitting joy to us.

You are an incredible mystery that you will never figure out. To be this mystery consciously is the greatest joy.

The secret is this. You make your own happiness.

Pretending can be a bold form of experimentation and inventiveness. In pretending joy or happiness, we may discover or enhance our capacity for it.

It is looking for the joys that come in small, precious packages and making the most of them, knowing that big packages of joy are few and far between.

Spirit is the source of peace. It is the source of joy. It is not a duality of happiness and unhappiness, but singular joy.

Fundamentally, we are all in the same place: we're born, we live, and we're going to die. In between, we'll have joy and we'll have sadness.

It is not easy always to be joyful, to keep in mind the duty of delight.

There are some people who have the quality of richness and joy in them and they communicate it to everything they touch. It is first of all a physical quality; then it is a quality of the spirit.

For there is but one problem - the problem of human relations. We forget that there is no hope or joy except in human relations.

What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they've taken away?

I wish you joy of your unhappiness, since you cling to it so.

Life is a gift, not to possess, but to share.

Solving problems should be a joy, a welcome challenge to our creativity.

The stronger the ties that bind us to God, the more likely we are to live, react, and behave in harmony with...greater joy, peace, and happiness.

The aftermath of joy is not usually more joy.

Only when we try to understand one another's suffering can we begin to bring each other joy.

Certainly it is one of our sweetest experiences that when we are touched by some noble affection or pure joy, we remember the dead most tenderly, and feel more powerfully drawn to them.

The adventure of the sun is the great natural drama by which we live, and not to have joy in it and awe of it, not to share in it, is to close a dull door on nature's sustaining and poetic spirit.

I'm really happy when I'm immersed in the art of it all - immersed in the music, the dance, the visual. Tapping into joy - it saves you.

I am not finding pregnancy much of a joy. I am afraid of childbirth, but I am afraid I can't find a way of avoiding it.

What seems nasty, painful, evil can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind.

As so much music is listened to via MP3 download, many will never experience the joy of analog playback, and for them, I feel sorry. They are missing out.

Michael has a connection with children, just like Mickey Mouse does, and he brings happiness to them, and joy.

Love and joy are twins or born of each other.

The things that have been and shall be no more, The things that are, and that hereafter shall be, The things that might have been, and yet were not, The fading twilight of joys departed.

My voice is still the same, and this makes me beside myself with Joy! Oh, mon Dieu, when I think what I might be able to do with it!

Joy is not made to be a crumb. (Don't Hesitate)

The dead don't desire revenge, but the happiness of the livng. To dirty your small hands would bring joy to no one. -Kenshin to Eiji

The only universal language I know of that wraps up joy and gratitude and love is laughter.

The test of Christian character should be that a man is a joy-bearing agent to the world.

Pause and remember - If you empty yourself of yesterday's sorrows, you will have much more room for today's joy.

People are constantly clamoring for the joy of life. As for me, I find the joy of life in the hard and cruel battle of life - to learn something is a joy to me.

Wherever your joy is, go after it, ... pretty ladies.

You can have peace of mind, improved health and an ever-increasing flow of energy. Life can be full of joy and satisfaction.

We are destined for joy no matter how difficult our daily life. Something in us responds to the happiness other people experience, because we glimpse life as God intended it to be.

O, Life! how pleasant is thy morning, Young Fancy's rays the hills adorning! Cold pausing Caution's lesson scorning, We frisk away, Like schoolboys, at the expected warning, To joy and play.

Embracing conflict can be a joy when we know that irritation and frustration can lead to growth and the re-engergizing of ourselves and others. Hot heads and cold hearts never solved anything.

My color is my joy and not my burden.

It's lonely to listen to the pleasure of others, not that I've made a habit of that kind of eavesdropping. There's joy and passion in the next room, in the next bed, but it's not yours.

It's what I always wanted to do, to show the laughter, the fun, the joy of dance.

It is not the visions but the activity which makes you happy, and the joy and glory of the flier is the flight itself.

Let joy be unconfined.

Spiritual life is not dry, it is also exceuted happily, 'susukham'. The result of that is not just happiness, but bliss, spiritual joy.

There is no real and true joy of if that joy is not imbued with love. Love cannot exist without joy.

Well why not a technology of joy, of happiness?

I would not give one moment of heaven for all the joy and riches of the world, even if it lasted for thousands and thousands of years.

Joy isn't the natural response to blessings - joy is what comes from acknowledging them.