Joy Quotes

My testimony has been my anchor and my stay, my satisfaction in times of joy and gladness, my comfort in times of sorrow and discouragement.

We do not choose suffering simply because we are told to, but because the one who tells us to describes it as the path to everlasting joy.

[from a reader] I hope she learns to look for the joy in life instead of picking out negatives - it will change her life for the better.

In America nobody says you have to keep the circumstances somebody else gives you.

Even though I was young, I could see the pain of the flesh and the worth of the pain.

I discovered that maybe it was fate all along, that faith was just an illusion that somehow you're in control.

Which religion gives the greatest joy to God? That which inspires human beings to practice Ahimsa and compassion to all creatures.

Sympathy with joy intensifies the sum of sympathy in the world, sympathy with pain does not really diminish the amount of pain.

Behind Joy and Laughter there may be a temperament, coarse, hard and callous. But behind Sorrow there is always Sorrow. Pain, unlike Pleasure, wears no mask.

Happiness depends on what happens; joy does not.

In the world of the dreamer there was solitude: all the exaltations and joys came in the moment of preparation for living. They took place in solitude.

We call "happiness" a certain set of circumstances that makes joy possible. But we call joy that state of mind and emotions that needs nothing to feel happy.

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.

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.

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 joy late coming late departs.

The people who shape our lives and our cultures have the ability to communicate a vision or a quest or a joy or a mission.

But were there ever any Writhed not at passed joy?

you will I trust find heaviness may endure for a night, but joy comes in the morning.

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.

When we recognize how precious and truly glorious we are, then we become humbled by that and recognize everyone's true spiritual identity. And then our greatest joy is in sharing.

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.

It was by music that the ancient kings gave elegant expression to their joy. By their armies and axes they gave the same to their anger.

A good newspaper is never nearly good enough but a lousy newspaper is a joy forever.

[Believers] have joy and comfort-that joy that angels cannot give, and devils cannot take.

I had admired Richard Burton for years and years before I had ever worked with him. He was a great, great actor. It was a joy to get to know him as a person.

In spite of this trial, which takes all enjoyment from me, I can never the less, cry out, 'Lord, you fill me with joy in all that you do. For is there a joy greater than to suffer for love?'

Joy is a big stress buster too. Measure your success by how much fun you're having.

Sometimes even the greatest joys bring challenge, and children with special needs inspire a very, very special love.

I am glad that I wrote something that brought joy to millions of people.

Joy, in Nature's wide dominion, Mightiest cause of all is found; And 'tis joy that moves the pinion When the wheel of time goes round.

One drop of hatred left in the cup of joy turns the most blissful draught into poison.

Not joy is the mother of dissipation, but joylessness.

A Dionysian life task needs the hardness of the hammer and one of its first essentials is without doubt the joy to be found even in destruction.

It is fun to be outside; it's good to move your body and there is just a joy in sports and athletics.

Humility accepts the very nature of a human being is complete, unadulterated, ecstatic joy.

All religions teach one basic discipline - the removal from the mind of the blemish of egoism, of running after little joys.

Poetry cannot afford to lose its fundamentally self-delighting inventiveness, its joy in being a process of language as well as a representation of things in the world.

Love begets love. This torment is my joy.

Let all thy joys be as the month of May,And all thy days be as a marriage day.

What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.

People who are obsessed with Jesus do not consider service a burden. Obsessed people take joy in loving God by loving His people (Mt 13:44)(Jn 15:8).

My joy is as painful as my pain.

The joy of heaven will begin as soon as we attain the character of heaven, and do its duties.