Joy Quotes

We laugh and laugh, and nothing can ever be sad, no one can be lost, or dead, or far away: right now we are here, and nothing can mar our perfection, or steal the joy of this perfect moment.

Life in the twentieth century undeniably has ... such richness, joy and adventure as were unknown to our ancestors except in their dreams.

Monterey was the Maraschino cherry on top of the Sundae that was the '60s. It was totally unprecedented, and the audience was unprecedented in their joy.

We're crazy, We're living on crazy ideas about love, about relationships, about happiness, about joy, about everything.

Peace is joy at rest. Joy is peace on its feet. quoting her pastor in Salon, April 25, 2003

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.

From the satisfaction of desire there may arise, accompanying joy and as it were sheltering behind it, something not unlike despair.

To win ones joy through struggle is better than to yield to melancholy.

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.

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.

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

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

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

[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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

I get the most joy in life out of music.

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

At Earth's great market where Joy is trafficked in, Buy while thy purse yet swells with golden Youth.

a joy that hurts with sadness a sadness that is pleasurable a pleasure full of terror a terror that excites an excitement that calms a calmness that frightens.

Life is art. Art is life. I never separate it. I don’t feel that much anger. I equally have a lot of joy.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

A man too careful of danger liveth in continual torment, But a cheerful expecter of the best hath a fountain of joy within him.

Joy has come to live with me. How can I be sad? I do so love Thy presence, which is joy within me.

Christianity did not come with tidings of great joy, but with a message of eternal grief. It came with the threat of everlasting torture on its lips. It meant war on earth and perdition hereafter.

The joy of living, its beauty, is all bound up in the fact that life can surprise you.

Suddenly I heard the words of Christ and understood them, and life and death ceased to seem to me evil, and instead of despair I experienced happiness and the joy of life undisturbed by death.

The joy of life is variety; the tenderest love requires to be rekindled by intervals of absence.

It is because I had so much joy that I came to have so much hate.

Writing has become my great joy - I simply love it.

When discipline is sown, like a good seed, it yields a harvest of things that fulfill and satisfy us-things that make us happy and release peace and joy in our lives.

Your life is pure joy, pure ecstasy, when you live in humility.

I had my dysfunctions, but music gave me peace and joy. I never felt in tune with the world. My parents always saw me as an artist, and that greatly influenced me. My art was my autonomy.

For me, the great joy is to watch an audience watching what I've made. To hear not a peep from the audience at the right moment, and then to hear the laughs and the cheers.

Clearly, the pleasures wines afford are transitory - but so are those of the ballet, or of a musical performance. Wine is inspiring and adds greatly to the joy of living.

For pure joy, I look at a small painting by Arbit Blatas. An ocean liner is at the center of the composition, perhaps ready to depart. It holds the promise of discovery.

There is a joy available that the deepest grief cannot put out. No circumstance or person can take away the joy God gives.

Where do I begin? I loved working with Kate Hepburn, which was one of the highlights of my life; Working with Richard Burton in Beckett was another great joy.

We must try to contribute joy to the world.

When you get pure joy out of 'being' rather than 'doing' or 'seeing,' that's when you realize how big and unexplainable some things are and being a dad is one of those very few things.

There is nothing in life to take seriously except the joy of life.

Choosing love will bring you great joy and great happiness - that happiness is a choice you make.