Joy Quotes

Fly with me, touch the face of the true God. And then cry with joy at the depth of my love.

Singing still brings me tremendous joy, the reception you get and you never know what people are going to share with you after the event.

You have the choice. You can choose joy over despair, happiness over tears, action over apathy, growth over stagnation.

The hurt you embrace becomes joy.

I enjoy writing, sometimes; I think that most writers will tell you about the agony of writing more than the joy of writing, but writing is what I was meant to do.

I love the creation of these things — I love the sculpting, I love the coloring. Half the joy is fabricating the world, the creatures.

Entertainment is the devil's substitute for joy

Joy always came after pain.

I sing the joy of wandering and the pleasure of the wanderer's death

Happiness is never really so welcome as changelessness.

Being seventy is not a sin. It's not a joy, either.

Larry Hagman was my best friend for 35 years. He was the Pied Piper of life and brought joy to everyone he knew.

Happiness isn't a one-size-fits-all proposition. You must define what it looks like for you and then make a conscious effort to access whatever gets you to your unique definition of joy.

Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses

A lot of my joy this year has been to give away awards to young people, no matter of race, creed or color, because they were a terrific violinist or a terrific dancer.

When great depths of unrelenting sorrow are punctuated by great peaks of joy and liberation, the result is delicious.

Today I will run for pure, absolute joy!

Whoever has loved once, knows all that life contains of sorrow and of joy.

A time will come when you will find that in gaining a brief joy you have lost your peace forever.

In joy or sorrow, feebleness or might, Peace or commotion, be thou, Father, my delight.

Let's work and rest happily, abandon us to the course of life; let's run out the muddy and rotten water of the daily thinking and within the Void will flow the Gnosis and with it, the Joy for living.

I am totally free to choose thoughts of joy. It is my Divine right to do so.

With eye upraised his master's look to scan, The joy, the solace, and the aid of man: The rich man's guardian and the poor man's friend, The only creature faithful to the end.

The joy in life is to be used for a purpose. I want to be used up when I die.

You're a happy fellow, for you'll give happiness and joy to many other people. There is nothing better or greater than that.

May everyone be happy and safe, and may their hearts be filled with joy.

Why did children seem to be so often spontaneous, joy-filled and concentrated while adults seemed controlled, anxiety-filled and diffused? It was the Goddam sense of having a self.

Our problems are not solved by physical force, by hatred, by warOur problems are solved by loving kindness by gentleness, by joy

When you sit in meditation, feel the joy in your soul.

I'm filled with a new joy mixed with old grief.

Learning a new thing is a shortcut to joy and informs your area of mastery.

The instant of birth is exquisite. Pain and joy are one at this moment. Ever after, the dim recollection is so sweet that we speak to our children with a gratitude they never understand.

May we understand that joy is not a sin, sacrifice is not a virtue.

It's the ropes and the reins, and the joy and the pain. And they call the thing rodeo.

I've worked with very few that I considered unpleasant. Dennis the Menace was a joy to work on.

When you surrender completely to God, as the only truth worth having, you find yourself in service of all that exists. It becomes your joy and recreation. You never tire of serving others.

When the joy of the job's gone, when it's no fun trying anymore, quit before you're fired.

Joy needs no object; it is our own nature.

During periods of relaxation after concentrated intellectual activity, the intuitive mind seems to take over and can produce the sudden clarifying insights which give so much joy and delight.

Doubt always hovers nearby, but I take photographs the way a musician hums. Looking is like breathing. So when luck turns my way and offers me a good picture, joy is surely nigh.

Joy is the mainspring in the whole Of endless Nature's calm rotation. Joy moves the dazzling wheels that roll In the great Time-piece of Creation.

Joy all creatures drink At nature's bosoms.

If you have never seen beauty in a moment of suffering, you have never seen beauty at all. If you have never seen joy in a beautiful face, you have never seen joy at all.

Softly the loud peal dies, In passing winds it drowns, But breathes, like perfect joys, Tender tones.

For standing between Cody and his pain is my obligation, and standing between my uncle and his pain is my rent, but the pain I coax from Bronte is my joy

How do we nurture the soul? By revering our own life. By learning to love it all, not only the joys and the victories, but also the pain and the struggles.

Joy and sorrow are like milk and cookies. That's how well they go together.

I am only serious about 20% of the time; one of the great joys of my life is the fact that I alone know when that is.

Faith gives us living joy and dying rest.

The most successful givers aren’t doing it because they’re being told to. They do it because doing it is fun. It gives them joy.