Joy Quotes

A gem of a short film has a sense of pure joy in animation that is different from anything you see in a feature film.

No created powers can mar our Lord Jesus' music, nor spill our song of joy. Let us then be glad and rejoice in the salvation of our Lord

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.

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

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

True joy comes only from God and He shares this joy with those who walk in fellowship with Him.

The Gauls derided the hairy and gigantic savages of the North; their rustic manners, dissonant joy, voracious appetite, and their horrid appearance, equally disgusting to the sight and to the smell.

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

A Settlement is above all a place for enthusiasms, a spot to which those who have a passion for the equalization of human joys and opportunities are early attracted.

When the Supreme Court says baseball isn't run like a business, everybody jumps up and down with joy. When I say the same thing, everybody throws pointy objects at me.

Where the soul is full of peace and joy, outward surrounding and circumstances are of comparatively little account.

Joy is the sheer evidence of God.

Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished.

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

Words cannot express the joy which a friend imparts.

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

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

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

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.

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

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?

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

In visions of the dark night I have dreamed of joy departed-- But a waking dream of life and light Hath left me broken-hearted.

To be wise was to be above joy and sorrow, fear and pity, ambition and humiliation. It was to hate nothing and to love nothing, and above all to be utterly indifferent to the love and hate of others.

Every parent can imagine the joys of child abuse.

Focus only on things you love, feel love, and you will experience that love and joy coming back to you - multiplied!

I am actually very in touch with all of my emotions, from joy to pain, and I am free with them.

A fretful temper will divide the closest knot that may be tied, by ceaseless sharp corrosion; a temper passionate and fierce may suddenly your joys disperse at one immense explosion.

Every delay that postpones our joys, is long. [Lat., Longa mora est nobis omnis, quae gaudia differt.]

And I made a rural pen, And I stained the water clear, And I wrote my happy songs Every Child may joy to hear.

But to go to school in a summer morn, O! It drives all joy away; Under a cruel eye outworn, The little ones spend the day In sighing and dismay.

When busyness goes after joy, it goes after everyone's joy.

How can the bird that is born for joy Sit in a cage and sing? How can a child, when fears annoy, But droop his tender wing, And forget his youthful spring?

Our sadness is not sad, but our cheap joys.

If you are a chef, no matter how good a chef you are, it's not good cooking for yourself; the joy is in cooking for others - it's the same with music.

Better--while life is quick And every pain immense and joy supreme, And all I have and am Flames upward to the dream ... Than like a taper forgotten in the dawn, Burning out the quick.

The joy of giving is indeed a pleasure, especially when you get rid of something you don't want.

The fault finder will find faults even in paradise and thereby miss the joys that recognition of the positives bring.

Training with Bela and Marta Karolyi took the joy out of the Olympics for me. I look back and feel there was a lot of verbal and physical abuse. For years, I felt it was my problem.

I have absolutely no fear of death. Why would I? There's nothing to fear-only joy to experience.

I was very lucky with 'Soap' and 'Who's the Boss,' which was great fun, and then went on 'Coach' and 'Everybody Loves Raymond.' I've been truly blessed, and the work has all been fun and a joy.

Never let anyone steal your joy.

All present life is but an interjection, An'Oh!'or 'Ah!'of joy or misery, Or a 'Ha! ha!'or 'Bah!'a yawn or 'Pooh!' Of which perhaps the latter is most true.