Joy Quotes

It is only when the mind is free from the old that it meets everything anew, and in that there is joy.

What she wants to say has to do not only with joy but with the penetrating, constant fear that is joy's other half.

We could all do with a bit more joy in our lives couldn't we? The wonderful thing is that when we start spreading joy, we begin to actually experience more joy in our lives too!

I needed to know that there was such a thing as love and that it brought smiles and joy in its wake.

Model the qualities that you want your children to show to each other.

God put Santa Claus on earth to remind us that Christmas is 'sposed to be a happy time.

If Joy Behar or Sherri Shepherd was a dude, they'd be off TV. They're not funny enough for dudes. What if Roseanne Barr was a dude? Think we'd know who she was?

The monkeys solved the puzzle simply because they found it gratifying to solve puzzles. They enjoyed it. The joy of the task was its own reward.

May we all soon go about as our real selves and take joy in it, saying, yes, yes, to whatever we are.

You think in a different way when you don't have any money. The joy of poverty is that you use your imagination to come up with stuff.

Easily mistaken, it is not about a love for adversity, it is about knowing a strength and a faith so great that adversity, in all its adverse manifestations, hardly even exists.

I would make an anonymous call and say, this is someone who cares, do you know what kind of children you have?

I'm not gonna give the British Government the joy of keeping taxing me. They don't tax art. And all my cars are just a collection of art.

Then came the healing time, hearts started to shine, soul felt so fine, oh what a freeing time it was.

The most important thing you must decide to do every day is put the Lord first.

Genuine happiness comes from within, and often it comes in spontaneous feelings of joy.

To delight in the law of the Lord is to find our source of joy outside of ourselves.

Oh, if only I could hurt with such misery once again, to feel the powers of love here inside my heart, the joys of heaven and the pains of hell!

If you really want to receive joy and happiness, then serve others with all your heart. Lift their burden, and your own burden will be lighter.

Travel is hard, but entertaining is joy.

Joy explodes throughout the book of Psalms like fireworks, and is the most potent anti-missile defense system there is.

Got just enough room to be a friend of yours. Oh I hope you got room to be a friend of mine.

I intend to bring you strength, joy, courage, perspicacity, defiance.

Just thinking of your laughter gives me courage. . .

I have never had a current state of mind. My mind changes a great deal. I am very affected by any sorrow or sad thing, and I am very affected by joy and beauty.

Despite our ever-connective technology, neither Skype nor Facebook - not even a telephone call - can come close to the joy of being with loved ones in person.

The sweetness of reunion is the joy of heaven.

The land of possibility is a better place to make your home than the realm of expectation will ever be

Joy is a sure sign of the presence of God in your life.

Christianity is not about religion. It's about faith, about being held, about being forgiven. It's about finding joy and finding home.

It is so good to have friends who understand how there is a time for crying and a time for laughing, and that sometimes the two are very close together.

So let the world go, but hold fast to joy.

This is one rule about mixing boys and girls: that a date always comes first.

At the core of the universe, the face of God wears a smile

I do not care about happiness simply because I believe that joy is something worth fighting for.

For in the sorrow, there is also our happiness.

Imagination doesn't always make you long for what you cannot have, but rather thrive in what you do not have.

I enjoy melancholic music and art. They take me to places I don't normally get to go.

When most people think of Woodrow Wilson, they see a dour minister's son who never cracked a smile, where in fact he was a man of genuine joy and great sadness.

I want to express myself to feel that what I feel is real. My joy, my pain, my anger.

The good life doesn't knock on the door. Joy is a job.

I think it's safe to say that each of us has at least one issue we are passionate about and struggle with, issues that robs us of our peace, our joy and our ability to experience love.

Suffering teaches us only that we suffer. Joy shows us which way to go.

The joy I feel is immense; it burns inside me as though I have swallowed a piece of the sun.

The temper of mind that sees tragedy in life has not for its opposite the temper that sees joy. The opposite pole to the tragic view of life is the sordid view.

Share your joy with everyone in your world.

I am so grateful for my beautiful life. I am cherished and loved. And I share my love and joy with everyone.

Breathing becomes really easy when you're laughing. It kick starts that feeling of joy.

Love can't mature in one room. It has to come out of the full sharing of everything: joys, aspirations, downfalls, all of it. That's the only real path to love.

Truth illuminates and gives joy; and it is by the bond of joy, not of pleasure, that men's spirits are indissolubly held.