Joy Quotes

Along with the joy of parenthood, with every child comes a piercing vulnerability. It is at once sublime and terrifying

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.

Your true nature is purity, peace and joy.

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.

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

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

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

Even if you have a lot of work to do, if you think of it as wonderful, and if you feel it as wonderful, it will transform into the energy of joy and fire, instead of becoming a burden.

The powers that be understand that sexual freedom or liberation with any kind of joy means they are losing control.

Surfing is one of the most joyful pursuits a human can take up. But there's no joy in a deadzone. If you've ever surfed in turds and medical waste you don't want to repeat the experience.

The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.

The lack of joy in your life is due to your lack of mission.

Don't look for obscure formulas or mystery in my work. It is pure joy that I offer you. Look at my sculptures until you see them. Those closest to God have seen them.

The thought of the future life with its prerogatives and joys helps to make the trials of the present seem light and transient.

I hope life treats you kind, and I hope you have all that you ever dreamed of, and I wish you joy and happiness. But above all of this, I wish you love.

When the past has passed from you at last, let go. Then climb down and begin the rest of your life. With great joy.

The joy of life is made up of obscure and seemingly mundane victories that give us our own small satisfactions.

Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me.

God has joy for you right now.

This joy that He brings us transcends every human trial, it is a joy that can strengthen even the weakest of hands

There are robberies that leave man or woman forever beggared of peace and joy, yet kept secret by the sufferer.

Joy is the triumph of life; it is the sign that we are living our true life as spiritual beings.

Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it.

Happiness, laughter and joy abound, when friends, family, and lovers are around.

Tis safter to be that which we destroy Than by destruction dwell in doubtful joy.

The most fruitful and the most joy-filled Christians are the most pruned Christians.

This is the crucifixion of Christ: in which He dies again and again in the individuals who were made to share the joy and freedom of His grace, and who deny Him.

All joy... emphasizes our pilgrim status; always reminds, beckons, awakens desire. Our best havings are wantings.

We wake, if ever at all, to mystery.

Joy is never in our power and pleasure often is

Only by living at the edge of death can you understand the indescribable joy of life - Shogun.

It's always harder to maintain raw enthusiasm or joy than to go into a really dark place.

I loved words. I love to sing them and speak them and even now, I must admit, I have fallen into the joy of writing them.

Believe, then, that you are a being unlimited by nature, born into flesh to materialize as best you can the great joy and spontaneity of your nature.

A car for the people, an affordable Volkswagen, would bring great joy to the masses and the problems of building such a car must be faced with courage.

In the vastness of space and the immensity of time, it is my joy to share a planet and an epoch with Annie.

There's a need for a ritual and for real joy and real bliss. Real fun.

The joy of love is too short, and the sorrow thereof, and what cometh thereof, dureth over long.

It is the experiences, the memories, the great triumphant joy of living to the fullest extent in which real meaning is found. God it's great to be alive! Thank you. Thank you.

My life shines with God's radiant blessings when my heart is the color of joy

It is one of the prodigious privileges of art that the horrific, artistically expressed, becomes beauty, and that sorrow, given rhythm and cadence, fills the spirit with a calm joy.

What is an Extraordinary Life? A life of meaning, a magnificent life, a life of joy, happiness, love, passion, success, and fulfillment. Life experienced on your terms.

It is much better to be drawn by the joys of heaven, than driven by the sorrows of earth.

People think that if you are a scientist you have to give up that joy of discovery, that passion, that sense of the great romance of life. I say thats completely opposite of the truth.

In many cases, a bout with sickness stretches your soul, opens your eyes, and introduces you to a world of unimagined grandeur, possibility and joy.

Joy is the state of the human soul who is not identified with the personality. Happiness is a state of the soul who is identified with the personality and enjoys the life in the personality.

Sometimes sorrow, sometimes joy. But beneath it all remember the innate perfection of your life unfolding. That is the secret of unreasonable happiness.

I feel like my sixteenth birthday and the time I graduated from high school, and the first time I flew solo all wrapped up in one.

When my wrestlers got their hands raised, I jumped for joy.

Man was made for joy and woe, and when this we rightly know through the world we safely go. Joy and woe are woven fine, a clothing for the soul to bind.