Joy Quotes

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

Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.

If we don’t allow ourselves to experience joy and love, we will definitely miss out on filling our reservoir with what we need when. . . . hard things happen.

True freedom, which is full joy, is the complete recognition of law and adaptation to it. Bondage comes from ignorance of law or opposition to it.

No matter what all your teeth and wet fingers anticipated, there was no accounting for the way that simple joy could shake you.

The roadblocks to growth and joy come when we forget the bigness of God & instead make people bigger than He is.

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.

True humility means giving joy to others.

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.

Happiness is wanting what you have.

I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river.

I've come to the point where I never feel the need to stop and evaluate whether or not I am happy. I'm just 'being', and without question, by default, it works.

I don't write to give joy to readers but to give them a conscience.

I get the most joy in life out of music.

O let us still the secret joy partake, To follow virtue even for virtue's sake.

Do not look for joy anywhere else. It is living in you, and gives meaning to all Existence.

Music is such a joy, just an absolute joy.

Women are angels, wooing: Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing: That she beloved knows naught, that knows not this-- Men prize the thing ungained more than it is.

Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie in three words,-health, peace, and competence.

Reconcile the loss of the painting - no matter how many times it may happen - with the joy of beginning again.

Laughter is, after speech, the chief thing that holds society together.

Is that what they call a vocation, what you do with joy as if you had fire in your heart, the devil in your body?

The joy which is caused by truth and noble thoughts shows itself in the words by which they are expressed.

The poor are the human manure in which grow the harvests of life, the harvests of joy which the rich reap.

The poet's expression of joy conceals his despair at not having found the reality of joy.

The very first discovery of beauty strikes the mind with an inward joy, and spreads a cheerfulness and delight through all its faculties.

Alas! the joys that fortune brings Are trifling, and decay, And those who prize the trifling things, More trifling still than they.

By working to get away from your circumstance you can make something better of yourself, but there’s no guarantee... But you know what? The joy of it is chasing that dream.

She comprehended the perversity of life, that in the struggle lies the joy.

Well, your greatest joy definitely comes from doing something for another, especially when it was done with no thought of something in return.

There are those who believe Black people possess the secret of joy and that it is this that will sustain them through any spiritual or moral or physical devastation.

Look back on your wedding And be filled with joy and pride Deservedly so, for the many years You've flourished, side by side

Peace in every step. The shining red sun is my heart. Each flower smiles with me. How green, how fresh all that grows. How cool the wind blows. Peace is every step. It turns the endless path to joy.

It's not up to us what we learn, but merely whether we learn through joy or through pain.

A virtuous abstinence from the joys of pederasty comes most easily to those who have no taste for it.

Laughter can help relieve tension in even the heaviest of matters.

Knowing that Nature never did betray the heart that loved her; 'tis her privilege, through all the years of this our life, to lead from joy to joy.

I get a special joy in knowing people feel comfortable if they see me in Wal-Mart or in a no-frills section trying to get something on a discount.

The old wanderlust had gotten into his blood, the joy of the unbound life, the joy of seeking, of hoping without limit.

To win ones joy through struggle is better than to yield to melancholy.

We pick our own sorrows out of the joys of other men, and from their sorrows likewise we derive our joys.

From the satisfaction of desire there may arise, accompanying joy and as it were sheltering behind it, something not unlike despair.

Love adorns itself; it seeks to prove inward joy by outward beauty

They eat, they drink, and in communion sweet Quaff immortality and joy.

Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow.

I can edit into infinity. It's such a joy. I'd probably edit until the last word. Until there's only one word left.

But I also know that to ignore joy while it lasts, in favor of lamenting one's fate, is a great crime.

And I know that God made the heart the most fragile and resilient of all organs, that a lifetime of joy and pain might be encased in one mortal chamber.

Every intensification is good, if it is in your entire blood, if it isn't intoxication or muddiness, but joy which you can see into, clear to the bottom.

The Art of Fulfillment is the ability to experience not only the thrill of the chase, but also the magic of the moment, the unbridled joy of feeling truly alive.