Joy Quotes

He was consious of a thousand odours floating in the air, each one connected with a thousand thoughts, and hopes, and joys, and cares, long, long, forgotten.

O my God, if Thy creations are so full of beauty, delight and joy, how infinitely more full of beauty, delight and joy art Thou Thyself, Creator of all!

Our life-style contains more Thanatos than Eros, for egotism, exploitation, deception, obsession and addiction have more place in us than eroticism, joy, generosity and spontaneity.

There is only one blasphemy, and that is the refusal to experience joy.

As I age I am grateful to find that a silence has begun to gather in me, coexisting with my tempers and my fears, unchanged by my joys or my pain. Sanctuary. Connected to the Silence everywhere.

Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Osho is a mystical giant, a flowering of a unique intelligence and one of those rare humans ex-pressing himself with joy.

Youth should watch joys and shoot them as they fly.

Joy rul'd the day, and Love the night.

You can experience true delight on the Sabbath from family history work...Finding family members...can bring immense joy.

In most vital organizations, there is a common bond of interdependence, mutual interest, interlocking contributions, and simple joy.

Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter.

You can't understand it until you experience the simple joy of the first time your son points at a seagull and says 'Duck!'

I hold those wise who know how to be happy.

Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it.

The Irish say your trouble is their trouble and your joy their joy? I wish I could believe it; I am troubled, I'm dissatisfied, I'm Irish.

Jazz music hashaunted America for seventy years.It has tempted us out of our lily-white reserve with its black promise of untrammeled joy.

I was a tiny bug. Now a mountain. I was left behind. Now honored at the head. You healed my wounded hunger and anger, and made me a poet who sings about joy.

Being a parent is absolutely exhausting and draining, along with all the joy and love.

You may imagine the joy manifested by these poor Africans, when they heard one of their own color address them in a friendly manner, and in a language they could comprehend!

Joy is not a feeling in us. Joy does not enter into us. We enter into joy: "Enter into the joy of your Lord" (Mt 25:21).

Joy is our goal, our destiny. We cannot know who we are except in joy. Not knowing joy, we do not know ourselves.

Oh! joy for he who has escaped from this world of perfumes and color! For beyond these colors and these perfumes, these are other colors in the heart and the soul.

Keep on knocking 'til the joy inside opens a window look to see who's there

To the scientist there is the joy in pursuing truth which nearly counteracts the depressing revelations of truth.

Christmas is joy, religious joy, an inner joy of light and peace.

Don't put off till tomorrow what can be enjoyed today.

If we observe ourselves truthfully and non-judgmentally, seeing the mechanisms of our personality in action, we can wake up, and our lives can be a miraculous unfolding of beauty and joy.

We can cry for years but sometimes gotta smile too.

I'm trying to stay as calm as possible and focus one day at a time, but when reality sets in, I feel everything: anxiety, excitement, nerves, pressure and joy.

We're losing track of the vastness of the potential for computer science. We really have to revive the beautiful intellectual joy of it, as opposed to the business potential.

Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how.

I think people need to know that there's great peace and joy in knowing the Lord - the Lord Jesus Christ - as your savior.

First and foremost comes my family and my life with Brad. We have so much joy in raising our children and teaching them about the world that nothing really compares to that.

Work may be your dominant thought, and joy an afterthought. But joy is your true purpose, and work the afterthought.

The greatest joys in life are found not only in what we do and feel, but also in our quiet hopes and labors for others.

An infinite question is often destroyed by finite answers. To define everything is to annihilate much that gives us laughter and joy.

We ourselves can die with comfort and even with joy if we know that death is but a passport to blessedness, that this intellect, freed from all material chains, shall rise and shine.

Joy comes from using your potential.

Where joy in an old pencil is not absurd.

If the machines can take the drudgery out of it and just leave us with the joy of drawing, then that's the best of both worlds - and I'll use those computers!

Next to the joy of the egotist is the joy of the detractor.

Communion with Christ gives us our strength, our joy, and our love.

Spontaneity is one of the joys of existence, especially if you prepare for it in advance.

This is one moment, / But know that another / Shall pierce you with a sudden painful joy.

The momentary thrill of getting rarely equals the lasting joy of giving.

Know that success and inner peace are your birthright, that you are a child of God and as such that you're entitled to a life filled with joy, love and happiness.

Every person - with his or her own skills, abilities and uniqueness - can contribute to others and bring great joy to those that fortune has not smiled upon.

To love the one who loves you, To admire the one who admires you, In a word, to be the idol of one's idol, Is exceeding the limit of human joy; It is stealing fire from heaven.

I wake up thinking of yesterday. The joy is in remembering; the pain is in knowing it was yesterday.