Joy Quotes

Come what sorrow can, It cannot countervail the exchange of joy, That one short minute gives me in her sight

For the joy of ear and eye, for the heart and mind's delight, for the mystic harmony, linking sense to sound and sight; Lord of all, to thee we raise this our hymn of grateful praise.

Yes, there truly is a joy to giving.

Seeing the way that God has been faithful to work what appears to be a tragedy for our good and His glory has been the greatest source of joy and comfort. The gift of a son is pretty amazing as well.

I could never have gone to Africa another way and had the same experience. It was my job and my joy at the same time.

Patience is the mother of joy.

Divine love is perfect peace and joy, it is a freedom from all disquiet, it is all content and happiness; and makes everything to rejoice in itself.

Tools of many kinds and well chosen, are one of the joys of a garden.

Joy is something that we have to choose and then work for.

If during creative processes the desire for money and fame comes before passion and joy, the chances for a big hit decrease considerably, at least in my experience.

Sometimes it's things that take the joy out of life, like a blowout when you're hitting sixty or a button coming off of a shirt when you're in a hurry, but usually it's people.

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.

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.

Search fearlessly for every sin, for out of sin comes joy.

Obey Him with glad reckless joy.

Nobody can be happy. You could have moments of happiness, moments of joy. But life is very difficult. Unless you're a total idiot. Then you can be happy.

One of the most responsible things you can do as an adult is to become more of a child.

When you learn to love your physical body, every activity can become a ritual of gratitude where you fully express the joy to be alive!

Man, being essentially active, must find in activity his joy, as well as his beauty and glory; and labor, like every thing else that is good, is its own reward.

For I am bound with fleshly bands, Joy, beauty, lie beyond my scope; I strain my heart, I stretch my hands, And catch at hope.

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.

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.

Joy, when it is excessive, overcomes as much as grief.

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.

'joy' in Phillippians is a defiant 'Nevertheless!' that Paul sets like a full stop against the Philippians' anxiety.

You don’t have to say that nature is aware of your existence, that God knows you are here. The camera gives you proof that you have lived at least once.

If you evade suffering, you also evade the chance of joy.

I'm always sorry when pleasant things end. Something still pleasanter may come after, but you can never be sure.

I'm an actor, and part of my joy and my curiosity about the job that I do, is that actors have the privilege of exploring human nature in different ways.

A father's and a mother's age must be borne in mind; with joy on the one hand, fear on the other.

Many pains are imaginary, but all joys are real.

I have made my limitations tools of learning and true joy.

...But listen, there will be more joy in heaven over the tears of a repentant sinner than over the white robes of a hundred just men.

It is a sure sign of a mind not balanced as it ought to be, when it is insensible to the pleasures of the domestic hearth, and to the little joys and endearments of a family.