Joy Quotes

O memory, thou bitter sweet,--both a joy and a scourge!

Pranking exposes the truth that underneath this appearance of order is joy, laughter, and disorder.

Then liberty, like day, Breaks on the soul, and by a flash from Heaven Fires all the faculties with glorious joy.

Joy in what we do is not an added feature; it is a sign of deep health.

I do love action films and I hope I'm going to do many more and learn lots of new crafts 'cause that's the joy of movies.

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.

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

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

This is our true wealth: the riches we take with us, the joy we carry inside, the support we learn to give ourselves, and the self-loving that flows as a natural by-product of that support.

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

Half my life is full of sorrow, Half of joy, still fresh and new; One of these lives is a fancy, But the other one is true.

Matisse can make you hate your life for its comparatively insipid joys.

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

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

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.

Gem of all joy, jasper of jocundity.

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.

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

We’ve been given the covenant community because we need each other, and together we’ll be more mature, experience more life, and know more joy than we ever would apart from one another.

I don't need to punish people for sin. Sin is its own punishment, devouring you from the inside. It's not my purpose to punish it; it's my joy to cure it.

If the descent is thus sometimes performed in sorrow, it can also take place in joy.

He who has not looked on Sorrow will never see Joy. [for without sorrow how would you know what joy is? Contrast provides peceptive clarity]

Joy goes as deep as sorrow, but leaves less of itself behind.

The violence of either grief or joy, their own enactures with themselves destroy.

How much better is it to weep at joy than to joy at weeping?

My grief lies onward, and my joy behind.

The writing is a joy, so seamless you nearly miss the sheer artistry of the style and the terrific, wry humour.

If we act like children of God, knowing that he loves us, our lives will be made new, filled with serenity and joy.

When we smile, the world smiles with us: each experience of joy is an experience of joy for all people and a victory for human kind.

Christianity spreads through the joy of disciples who know that they are loved and saved.

The spirits of the air live on the smells Of fruit; and joy, with pinions light, roves round The gardens, or sits singing in the trees.

A Christian is never bored or sad. Rather, the one who loves Christ is full of joy and radiates joy.

We honor life when we work. The type of work is not important: the fact of work is. All work feeds the soul if it is honest and done to the best of our abilities and if it brings joy to others.

If we live the faith in our daily life, then our work too becomes a chance to spread the joy of being a Christian.

The cross of Christ, embraced with love, never brings sadness with it, but joy, the joy of being saved and of doing a little of what he did on the day of his death.

And when he did that, my hands curled into fists because I thought about touching his face like maybe I could catch joy in my hands and hold it.

Do not be afraid of what God asks of you! It is worth saying 'yes' to God. In him we find joy.

One takes what the river offers, both good and bad. The joy of living by running water far outweighs the sorrow.

The Church needs you, your enthusiasm, your creativity and the joy that is so characteristic of you.