Joy Quotes

‎Once we recognize what it is we are feeling, once we recognize we can feel deeply, love deeply, can feel joy, then we will demand that all parts of our lives produce that kind of joy.

How sad to see a father with money and no joy. The man studied economics, but never studied happiness.

Either we shake one another's hands in joy at he victory of Islam in the world, or all of us will turn to eternal life, and martyrdom. In both cases, victory and success are ours.

If you can forgive the person you were, accept the person you are, and believe in the person you will become, you are headed for joy. So celebrate your life.

It's not about perfection; it's about the joy of striving.

Tranquillity is contagious, peace is contagious. One only thinks of the contagiousness of illness, but there is the contagion of serenity and joy.

Behold me, here I am; thy little handmaiden Acceptance-with-Joy and all that is in my heart is thine.

Balance, peace, and joy are the fruit of a successful life. It starts with recognizing your talents and finding ways to serve others by using them.

When people doubt your abilities, the greatest joy on earth is making them eat their words.

Change your inner thoughts to the higher frequencies of love, harmony, kindness, peace, and joy, and you'll attract more of the same.

See! From the brake the whirring pheasant springs, And mounts exulting on triumphant wings; Short is his joy! He feels the fiery wound, Flutters in blood, and panting beats the ground.

What is art? Art grows from joy and sorrow, but mostly from sorrow. It grows from human lives.

Ash Wednesday is full of joy...The source of all sorrow is the illusion that of ourselves we are anything but dust.

Joy can only be real if people look upon their life as a service and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.

Pilots take no special joy in walking: pilots like flying.

He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sun rise.

I have put my whole soul into this work [The Pathetique Symphony] . . . You cannot imagine what joy I feel at the thought that my days are not yet over and that I may still accomplish much.

Though sin often brings immediate pleasure, it gives no lasting joy.

You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy.

You are free to think thoughts of worry or joy, and whatever you choose will attract the same kind back to you. Worry attracts worry. Joy attracts joy.

Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Make peace with the universe. Take joy in it. It will turn to gold. Resurrection will be now. Every moment, a new beauty.

Don't ever hesitate to take to [God] whatever is on your heart. He already knows it anyway, but He doesn't want you to bear its pain or celebrate its joy alone.

Joy seems to me a step beyond happiness- happiness is a sort of atmosphere you can live in sometimes when you're lucky. Joy is a light that fills you with hope and faith and love.

In joy or sadness, flowers are our constant friends.

The true joy of a moonlit night is something we no longer understand. Only the men of old, when there were no lights, could understand the true joy of a moonlit night.

Pain is inevitable, but misery is optional. We cannot avoid pain, but we can avoid joy.

Where our work is, there let our joy be.

Taking joy in living is a woman's best cosmetic.

My first poem was a bolt from the blue … it broke a spell of disillusion and suicidal despondence. ... it filled me with soul satisfying joy.

To have joy, one must share it.

Lethe, the river of oblivion, rolls his watery labyrinth, which whoso drinks forgets both joy and grief.

The only joy in the world is to begin.

Joy is prayer. Joy is strength. Joy is love. Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. God loves a cheerful giver. She gives most who gives with joy.

Tomorrow contains more joy than any yesterday you recall.

Some people bring joy wherever they go, and some people bring joy whenever they go.

This is your body, your greatest gift, pregnant with wisdom you do not hear, grief you thought was forgotten, and joy you have never known.

It is only after the deepest darkness that the greatest light can come; it is only after extreme grief that the greatest joy can come.

Joy is a quiet gladness of heart as one contemplates the goodness of God's saving grace in Christ Jesus.

I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.

I grow plants for many reasons: to please my eye or to please my soul, to challenge the elements or to challenge my patience, for novelty or for nostalgia, but mostly for the joy in seeing them grow.

I've spent more time than many will believe [making microscopic observations], but I've done them with joy, and I've taken no notice those who have said why take so much trouble and what good is it?

The sense of the joy in anything is the sense of Christ.

Once for all beloved children, the surest, easiest, shortest way is by the Eucharist. It is so easy to approach the holy table, and there we taste the joys of Paradise

When the shadow of death blots out my joy And erases the face of the sun Give me strength to endure, hope to believe That living and dying are one.

Our own true nature is Infinite Joy! Always happy, Always peaceful, Always free.

You are the cause of your own joy or your own misery. You hold that power. You are your own friend and your own enemy.

Good theatre draws the energies out of the place where it is and gives it back as joie de vivre.

You can not have significance in this life if it is all about you. You get your significance, you find your joy in life through service and sacrifice - it's pure and simple.

How can we expect our children to know and experience the joy of giving unless we teach them that the greater pleasure in life lies in the art of giving rather than receiving.