Joy Quotes

Labour without joy is base. Labour without sorrow is base. Sorrow without labour is base. Joy without labour is base.

Inner success is the ongoing experience of love, happiness, fulfillment and well-being - the experience of joy in your everyday life.

Mystical bliss, joy and rapture arises when you realize the inner Sun.

Joy never feasts so high as when the first course is of misery.

When I don't plumb the depths or the opportunities of each day, I don't have joy.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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?

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

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

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

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.

Music is such a joy, just an absolute joy.

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

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

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

Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything.

I know that knowledge and intelligence are not the same thing - but they do live in the same neighborhood. I know once again, firsthand, the joy of learning.

In the golden lightning Of the sunken sun O'er which clouds are brightening, Thou dost float and run Like an unbodied joy whose race is just begun.

This is truly marvelous work full of mystery, nostalgia, joy, The Color of Whimsy.

Wherever I am, there is joy and laughter!

Where humanity sowed faith, hope, and unity, joy’s garden blossomed.

The thorn is a bridge spanning the muddy depths of agony and sorrow so that one may on the other side dance to the drums of the rose of joy.

God alone has the secret of eternal life and joy.

Balm of the summer night, balm of the ordinary, imperial joy and sorrow of human existence, the dreamed as well as the lived— what could be dearer than this, given the closeness of death?

The human being places sexual intercourse above all other joys, but leaves it out of his heaven.

Lyrically I write based on my past experiences or things I wish to experience. Pain inspires me as does joy.

London, thou art the flower of cities all! Gemme of all joy, jasper of jocunditie.

Positive thoughts: joy, happiness, fulfillment, achievement, worthiness, have positive results: enthusiasm, calm, well-being, ease, energy, love.

This nice and subtle happiness of reading, this joy not chilled by age, this polite and unpunished vice, this selfish, serene life-long intoxication.

Joys do not stay, but take wing and fly away.

Fun is temporary at best; it's risky, even dangerous, at worst. Joy, on the other hand, was mystery I couldn't seem to decipher.

Gem of all joy, jasper of jocundity.

Grief and love are conjoined, you don't get one without the other. All I can do is love her, and love the world, emulate her by living with daring and spirit and joy.

Music expresses longing and love and joy better than any piece of dialogue you can ever write.

Endure pain, find joy, and make your own meaning, because the universe certainly isn't going to supply it.

The reading of tourist prospectuses is one of the joys of the world -- it is like operetta in prose -- all so flowery and heavenlike.