Joy Quotes

If there is a virtue in the world at which we should always aim, it is cheerfulness.

The only joy in this hard life is serving others.

Silence is bringing you back home, and it gives you that much needed energy to realize 'Who You Are', to realize that there is bliss, there is beauty, there is joy, and that is 'You'

Together we knew toil, joy and pain. My fervent wish is that the nine of us who were united in face of death should remain fraternally united through life.

Innately within us, resides the Spirit which wants to enlighten you, to give the peace, the bliss and the joy of our being.

He did not fail in love, but he lost the joy of it [...]

Happiness and joy are inner qualities that can't be shaken by outer circumstances because they are inherent within the core Self.

The article of justification is fragile. Not in itself, of course, but in us. I know how quickly a person can forfeit the joy of the Gospel.

All the joys - animal and human - of a free life are mine. I have escaped everything that is artificial, conventional, customary.

To be the father of a nation is a great honor, but to be the father of a family is a greater joy.

As with all children, the feeling that I was useful was perhaps the greatest joy I experienced.

A heart that overflows may seek out merrymaking and boisterous festivities to quietly rejoice, unnoticed amidst the reveling crowds.

Where there is love, there is joy.

One inch of joy surmounts of grief a span, Because to laugh is proper to the man.

Certainly Paul shares the view of the Old Testament prophets that God will one day flood the world with justice and joy - and that this has begun to be fulfilled in the resurrection of Jesus.

It appears to me impossible that I should cease to exist, or that this active, restless spirit, equally alive to joy and sorrow, should be only organized dust.

African art is functional, it serves a purpose. It's not a dormant. It's not a means to collect the largest cheering section. It should be healing, a source a joy. Spreading positive vibrations.

Let your mind and soul be at ease. Don't grasp and grab for the magic and miracles. When you reside in that place of stillness, the joy, miracles, and magic you're seeking will find you.

Happiness is in the taste, and not in the things.

When on the breath of Autumn's breeze, From pastures dry and brown, Goes floating, like an idle thought, The fair, white thistle-down; O, then what joy to walk at will, Upon the golden harvest-hill!

My path is about Joy.

To be mad is to feel with excruciating intensity the sadness and joy of a time which has not arrived or has already been.

True Joy is not the absence of pain but the sanctifying, sustaining presence of the Lord Jesus in the midst of the pain

Faith gives us living joy and dying rest.

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.

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

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.

To cleave that sea [the Aegean] in the gentle autumnal season, murmuring the name of each islet, is to my mind the joy most apt to transport the heart of man into paradise.

All human joys are swift of wing, For heaven doth so allot it; That when you get an easy thing, You find you haven't got it

The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow.

I'm such a comedy fan that I just love laughing and so admire comedians who have brought me joy.

The key is love, the action is service, and the joy is knowing the grandeur that is God in us and in everything.

Music is my happiness, my joy, and when my body wasn't right I couldn't get into my music without being healed, without being healthy.

True love always brings joy to ourself and the one we love. If our love does not bring joy to both of us, it is not true love.

A list of authors who have made themselves most beloved and therefore, most comfortable financially, shows that it is our national joy to mistake for the first-rate, the fecund rate.

The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.

The studying, the books, exams, arguments, theories. The jokes and pints, laughter, kisses and songs. Life was like running, ninety percent sweat and toil, ten per cent joy.

Think joy, talk joy, practice joy, share joy, saturate your mind with joy, and you will have the time of your life today and every day all your life.

The only nice thing about being imperfect is the joy it brings to others.

Delight in the scenery of each day.

The soul's joy lies in doing.

If you are joyful, do not worry about lukewarmness. Joy will shine in your eyes and in your look, in your conversation and in your countenance. You will not be able to hide it because joy overflows.

Most of us experience a life full of wonderful moments and difficult moments. But for many of us, even when we are most joyful, there is fear behind our joy.

Happiness is wanting what you have.

Of all the things which man can do or make here below, by far the most momentous, wonderful, and worthy are the things we call books.

True humility means giving joy to others.

you might want to decide fast. We live in a dangerous world. If you see a chance to be happy, you have to fight for it, so later you have no regrets.

I think that peace is, in many ways, a precondition of joy.