Joy Quotes

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

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

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.

Who pleasure gives, Shall joy receive

It is a joy to be choked with thought.

Life is one long training session in preparation for what will come. Life and death lose their meaning; there are only challenges to be met with joy and overcome with tranquility.

I struggle in life to find a sense of joy in things.

I've had the joy of spending thousands of hours under the sea. I wish I could take people along to see what I see, and to know what I know.

I am a glorious child of God. I am joyful, serene, positive, and loving.

You have to find a way to laugh a little bit each day despite everything, or your heart will simply run out of the joy that makes it go.

The joy of the Lord is your strength and the person of Christ is your unassailable joy - and the battle for joy is nothing less than fighting the good fight of faith.

Nothing brings me more joy than seeing other people's dreams come true.

I really hate those Internet freaks who take each thirty minute bundle of joy and turn it into a cult game of Where's Wally.

I can't wait to join you in the joy of welcoming neighbors back into neighborhoods, and small businesses up and running, and cutting those ribbons that somebody is creating new jobs.

All the keys to joy can be reduced to these two. Laugh but at no one's expense and love but without expectation.

Food = joy ... guilt ... anger ... pain ... nurturing ... friendship ... hatred ... the way you look and feel.... Food = everything you can imagine.

When I think about my new CD, the word 'joy' comes to mind. I sincerely hope that each listener will feel the earth, spirit, and aggressive creativity emanating from this album.

. . . it seemed to me that where others had prayed before to their God, in their joy or in their agony, was of itself a sacred place.

Joy passed, but happiness never completely disappeared; a touch of it would always remain to remind one it had been there. It was happiness that made one smile, then.

There is unspeakable joy... for the person who knows release from guilt and the relief of forgiveness.

Our two first parents, yet the only two Of mankind, in the happy garden placed, Reaping immortal fruits of joy and love, Uninterrupted joy, unrivalled love In blissful solitude.

We are lost, she and I, unseen and not seeing, unheard and not hearing, unknown by others.

For unlike my mother, I did not believe I could be anything I wanted to be. I could only be me.

The foundation of the true joy is in the conscience.

And below the heimongmong, all along the ground, were weeds already spilling out over the edges, running wild in every direction.

And now I also see what part of me is Chinese. It is so obvious. It is my family. It is in our blood.

I have always known a thing before it happens.

Our soul can find in the Blessed Sacrament all the joys and consolations it desires.

For sudden Joys, like Griefs, confound at first.

The more we seek gratitude, the more reason the angels will give us for gratitude and joy to exist in our lives.

...it isn't foolish or wicked to enjoy. Wickedness is hurting people on purpose. I love what you are and who you are and how you are. You give me great joy. And you make horrible coffee.

Christians rejoice even while they truly sorrow - because their rejoicing is in the hope of heaven... While joy overcomes sorrow, it does not put an end to it.

Humor is the fastest, fleetest way of giving -it can change pain to joy in a mere millisecond.

See golden days, fruitful of golden deeds, With joy and love triumphing.

We won't fully experience joy until we've answered life's biggest question: Why am I here?

I am an optimist. I think, as bad as life sometimes gets, there is so much joy and so much good stuff, that there is a balance.

Meditation, stillness, time simply to 'be', to do nothing at all and to do it with joy

Everybody lies...every day, every hour, awake, asleep, in his dreams, in his joy, in his mourning. If he keeps his tongue still his hands, his feet, his eyes, his attitude will convey deception.

I suppose that for most people one of the darker joys of gardening is that once you've got started it's not at all hard to find someone who knows a little bit less than you.

Discover that we are capable of solitary joy and having experienced it, know that we have touched the core of self.

What is life without the joy of Love?

Well, Id say all of us are a combination of moods and emotions. In my day to day life I dont go around skipping, but at times one can feel sheer exhilarating joy at the world.

Joy is a strength; intoxication, a weakness.