Joy Quotes

Dom DeLuise was a big man in every way. He was big in size and created big laughter and joy.

Love is a gift. You give love and that's where the joy is.

My ultimate joy and happiness is being a wife and mother.

the Irish ... are full of the fear of the Lord and the joy of living, and they don't know how to combine the two, but they'll sure have a good time trying.

Cherish every season of life; for without coldness, there is no comfort in warmth, and without darker days, there is no joy in light.

Joy may you have and gentle hearts content Of your loves couplement: And let faire Venus, that is Queene of love, With her heart-quelling Sonne upon you smile

As any good Buddhist will tell you, the only way to find permanent joy is by embracing the fact that nothing is permanent.

When we are expecting only suffering, the least joy surprises us: Suffering itself becomes the greatest of joys when we seek it as a precious treasure.

comedy is a high form of art becaus it brings us more joy than anything else, practically but at the same time, it doesn't get a lot of respect. that's the sacrifice you make to do it.

Grace is alive, living waters. If I dam up the grace, hold the blessings tight, joy within dies... waters that have no life.

Elinor could sit still no longer. She almost ran out of the room, and as soon as the door was closed, burst into tears of joy, which at first she thought would never cease.

Spiritual joy is what you experience when you choose to give thanks to God no matter what happens-even when things go wrong.

I'm in love with Earth. I truly am. And so listening is not work, to work toward a better future. It's joy. To not be able to work toward a better future would be work. That would be tough.

I suppose sometimes it takes getting lost to enjoy the joy of being found

Who has not raised a tombstone, here and there, over buried hopes and dead joys, on the road of life? Like the scars of the heart, they are not to be obliterated.

Truth, Goodness, Beauty - those celestial thrins,Continually are born; e'en now the Universe,With thousand throats, and eke with greener smiles,Its joy confesses at their recent birth.

To hear the Treorchy Male Choir in full throat is one of the great joys of choral music.

Let me rest in Your will and be silent. Then the light of Your joy will warm my life. Its fire will burn in my heart and shine for Your glory. This is what I live for. Amen, amen.

Joy surfeited turns to sorrow.

Measure the hate you feel now, and the shame. That quantity is your capacity also to love and to feel joy and to have compassion.

The greatest joy I get is setting up plays for somebody else. I take a lot of pride in helping other people make plays.

If love is killed, joy is lost. You cannot have joy without love.

Whether it is suffering or joy, going through experiences in life is not so much of a karma. Depriving yourself of any experience is the big karma.

Ask yourself: Is there joy, ease and lightness in what i'm doing? If there isn't then time is covering up the present moment, and life is perceived as a burden or a struggle.

The joy of the Lord is your strength.

The joy of the Lord will arm us against the assaults of our spiritual enemies, and, put our mouths out of taste for those pleasures with which the tempter baits his hooks.

Reality is only possible if you are in the realm of joy.

Joy and grief decide character. What exalts prosperity? what imbitters grief? what leaves us indifferent? what interests us? As the interest of man, so his God - as his God, so he.

I have always put my own money into Tails of Joy. For years, every time a dog walked by, my husband would say, 'There goes our beach house.'

What a joy is there in a good book, writ by some great master of thought, who breaks into beauty as in summer the meadow into grass and dandelions and violets, with geraniums and manifold sweetness.

Maximize that which gives you joy: friends, hobbies, religion, etc

To a good man, God gives not only wisdom and knowledge, but joy.

Religion without joy-it is no religion.

Joy is at its keenest when contrasted with sorrow, courage at its height when it follows fear, faith at its noblest when it grows from doubt.

To design a home is to design happiness, to create for ourselves a little piece of joy.

According to Eshin's Essentials of Salvation, the Ten Pleasures are but a drop in the ocean when compared to the joys of the Pure Land.

Riding is a complicated joy. You learn something each time. It is never quite the same, and you never know it all.

Serene will be our days, and bright and happy will our nature be, when love is an unerring light, and joy its own security.

To be able to share in another's joy, that is the secret of happiness.

In my joy I thrust my hand into the live embers, but quickly drew it out with a cry of pain. How strange, I thought that the same cause should produce such opposite effects.

O joy! that in our embers Is something that doth live, That nature yet remembers What was so fugitive!

Hope is the belief, more or less strong, that joy will come.

You pay for good days by then having bad days. You pay for joy with pain.

[A conductor's] happiness does not come from only his own story and his joy of the music. The joy is about enabling other people's stories to be heard at the same time.

Anyone who doesn't sing and dance at every opportunity is missing out on the joy of life.

Most of my work is comedy; it's meant to inspire empathy in people and help them find joy.

Joy and sadness come by turns.

We seek fulfillment in our lives through heart connection with others. This is our soul's essence of joy, which spontaneously pulses through us, longing to share itself with another.

Dr. Lipsenthal is a profound explorer of our inner and outer worlds. Enjoy Every Sandwich will help you heal your fear of death and embrace the true joy of life's extraordinary journey.

I paint for the sheer joy of painting. I have never sold any of my paintings. I'd rather give them to people for free.