Joy Quotes

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.

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.

Stress isn't only a joy stealer. The way we respond to it can be sin.

There is no joy in the soul that has forgotten what God prizes.

Disappointment is a sticky one, because no one can steal contentment, joy, gratitude, or peace - we have to give it away.

Now, when I hear that Christians are getting together in order to defend the people of Israel, of course it brings joy to my heart. And it simply says, look, people have learned from history.

When I'm on stage, I'm trying to do one thing: bring people joy. Just like church does. People don't go to church to find trouble, they go there to lose it.

My dogs have been the reason I have woken up every single day of my life with a smile on my face.

The depth of my sorrow is the height of my joy.

If you always attach positive emotions to the things you want, and never attach negative emotions to the things you don't, then that which you desire most will invariably come your way.

Why is joy not considered a fit subject for an artist?

If I were to draw on a paper what gym does for me, I would make one dot and then I would erase it.

Some people are attracted to sickness, to the kind of madness where sparks fly off the head, to the incoherence of despair, masked by nervous energy, which winds up looking like bewildered joy.

Peace of mind arrives the moment you come to peace with the contents of your mind.

Joy to the world, the Lord is come / Let earth receive her King / Let every heart, prepare him room / And heaven and nature sing.

It is a joy to be choked with thought.

Who pleasure gives, Shall joy receive

None of my other investments give me the joy that autographs do because they make me feel that I am holding a piece of history in my hands.

With so many thousand joys, is it not black ingratitude to call the world a place of sorrow and torment?

Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

If I could believe that God was not angry with me, I would stand on my head for joy.

We petitioned to get access to film [Suffragette] at the Houses of Parliament and we whooped with joy when we were allowed in, as this is the first ever commercial film to shoot there.

You cannot instill joy. You can only find where it lives and bring it forth.

Life does not require you to sacrifice or compromise your joy to get what you want. Joy is what you want, so when you choose in harmony with it, you are fulfilling your purpose in living.

Those who know the joys and miseries of celebrities when they have passed the age of forty know how to defend themselves.

The powers know that the people at large are like children whose despair, sorrow, and tears can be turned into joy with a little toy. ... An army and navy represents the people's toys.

What you're shooting at doesn't matter, the real question is: 'Does it give you joy?'

The butterfly lures us not only because he is beautiful, but because he is transitory. The caterpillar is uglier, but in him we can regard the better joy of becoming.

You can't live the rest of your life carrying a pain because your parents couldn't get along. I choose to spend my life crafting a joy.

Happiness is the object and design of our existence.

False expectations take away joy.

I didn't really enjoy modeling in Bombay. I floated through it in the hopes that I would get my ticket to the next big thing. There was no real joy that I got out of it, to be really honest.

I do a lot of to-dos and a lot of lists. I realized I had to make room for joy. So I added "to feel" items on my to-do list. That's something you can easily do.

Are you jealous of the ocean’s generosity? Why would you refuse to give this joy to anyone? Fish don’t hold the sacred liquid in cups! They swim the huge fluid freedom.

God is not an obligation or burden. God is the joy of my life!

I would say that writing, both the act of writing, and of course reading of other people's work is, for me, supreme joy.

The parents age must be remembered, both for joy and anxiety.

Let us put away our blinders and answer the call to Joy.

That hurt we embrace becomes joy. Call it to your arms where it can change.

The drum of the realization of the promise is beating, we are sweeping the road to the sky. Your joy is here today, what remains for tomorrow?

Those who dream of the joys of living in a space colony should live in a space colony.

I think the American people lose a large part of the joy of life because they do not live for generations in the same place.

A giant thirst is a great joy when quenched in time.

There is no greater joy in life than the joy of creating something.

Dance is a life, everyday. don't miss it. You're in bodies, you can move... Where is your joy?

Words cannot express the joy which a friend imparts.

I was struck by the joy of those pilots in committing coldblooded murder . . . Frankly, this is not cojones. This is cowardice.

Your joy comes from how you think, the choices that we make in life.

You have to bounce in life with joy. Your strength lies in your smiles and your songs.

Love wakes men, once a lifetime each; They lift their heavy lids, and look; And, lo, what one sweet page can teach They read with joy, then shut the book.