Joy Quotes

It's such a joy to be able to play someone who is angry. It's a joy and a relief.

Turn wishful thinking into positive action. Those who take a proactive stance in their lives tend to have an ample supply of joy and pleasure

Justice Ginsburg is a very competent justice, and it is a joy to have her on the court, but particularly for me it is a pleasure to have a second woman on the court.

Joy was a flame in me Too steady to destroy. Lithe as a bending reed, Loving the storm that sways her

Oh who can tell the range of joy or set the bounds of beauty?

Joy is a very high frequency current of energy with a great deal of energy content. Somebody who is joyful has a lot of energy.

I recalled when I worked in the woods and the bars of Madras, Oregon. That short-haired joy and roughness America your stupidity. I could almost love you again.

What a joy to remember that she is our Mother! Since she loves us and knows our weakness, what have we to fear?

The creation itself is full of griefs. How can one understand joy if there is no sorrow? And how can everyone be happy at the same time?

Jazz is for joy. It's for euphoria, it's for emotion, and anguish, and excitement, and all of the joys that great art can produce, and if it loses that, then it's lost everything.

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.

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.

For me, half the joy of achieving has been the struggle and the fight, the pitting myself against the world and all its competition - and winning.

I am simply content to find myself always imperfect, and in this I find my joy. Good deeds count as nothing, if done without love.

This morning, for the first time in a long time, the joy again of imagining a knife twisted in my heart.

For me, prayer is an upward leap of the heart, an untroubled glance towards heaven, a cry of gratitude and love which I utter from the depths of sorrow as well as from the heights of joy.

An audience sabotages my freedom, devastates my innocence, corrupts my integrity, inhibits my great joy - and of course gives me further to fall.

Real friends are our greatest joy and our greatest sorrow. It were almost to be wished that all true and faithful friends should expire on the same day.

Love isn’t only passion and joy. It’s also sacrifice.

Joy's a subtle elf, I think man's happiest when he forgets himself.

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).

Love begets love. This torment is my joy.

I'm completely in love with the world but also terrified of it. It creates some overwhelming feelings. Wanting to battle out that joy and fear is part of my music.

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.

The nature of life is to be a study of contrasts: joy/sadness, full/empty. The Main Thing is to Keep The Main Thing The Main Thing.

The real joy is in constructing a sentence. But I see myself as an actor first because writing is what you do when you are ready and acting is what you do when someone else is ready.

In moments of surprise we catch at least a glimpse of the joy to which gratefulness opens the door.

Joy is in the ears that hear.

Grateful living makes life meaningful and full of joy.

Certainly Dracula did bring a hell of a lot of joy to a hell of a lot of women. And if this erotic quality hadn't come out we'd have been very disappointed.

Things and conditions can give you pleasure but they cannot give you joy- joy arises from within.

Whenever you meet anybody, it is a holy encounter. The primary event is the energy field of presence between you and the other human being that arises. You enjoy it. There is deep joy in the meeting.

What is the good of life if its chief element, and that which must always be its chief element, is odious? No, the only true economy is to arrange so that your daily labor shall be itself a joy.