Joy Quotes

Gude nicht, and joy be wi' you a'.

Oh, the joys of baseball, manly men in tight pants.

It's just a joy to be able to work with a lot of different musicians. When you play with great musicians, whether they're schooled or self-taught, they keep you on your toes.

How they loved each other, these three, how they had suffered for each another, and yet how much joy they clearly took from simply being in the same room.

I still haven't been able to capture the joy of what it's like when I sing - you know, when I'm by myself, or like when I was a little kid.

Flying is such a joy. You just want to hoot.

Linda Evans Shepherd has blessed many by her warmth and openness. She's not only a delightful person, but she encourages others as she shares her joy.

May your heart open. May joy emerge. May love flow through you. May you heal and help others.

No joy in nature is so sublimely affecting as the joy of a mother at the good fortune of a child.

That was the overwhelming thing to me, the joy of carrying my portable typewriter to an event and trying to describe it.

Oh stay! oh stay! Joy so seldom weaves a chain Like this to-night, that oh 't is pain To break its links so soon.

Joy springs from a life lived with eternity's values in view.

Self-approbation, when founded in truth and a good conscience, is a source of some of the purest joys known to man.

A genuine revival without joy in the Lord is as impossible as spring without flowers, or day-dawn without light.

The joys of heaven will surely compensate for the sorrows of earth.

Does the world satisfy thee? Then thou hast thy reward & portion in this life; make much of it, for thou shalt know no other joy

That conversion which is all joy and lacks sorrow for sin, is very questionable.

There is a sweet joy that comes to us through sorrow.

Time is a corrosive fluid, dissolving motivation, destroying novelty, and leaching the joy from life.

Joy is not a thing, it is in us.

In a creative business, if you're happy, it will come out in your work. I don't see how you can be happy if you don't like the people you're working with and if they aren't a joy to have fun with.

It's been a joy to be a part of other people's journey, to be able to inspire and be a part of new singers coming up in this business.

Friendship is the holiest of gifts; God can bestow nothing more sacred upon us! It enhances every joy, mitigates every pain. Everyone can have a friend, Who himself knows how to be a friend.

The thrill of a fish at the end of the line, that thing that sparks from the dark water to spinal cord, is a vestige of an archetypal joy that has to do with sustenance, material and spiritual.

I love my children beyond all reason. They're my joy, even when they're wild with kid energy.

I really wanted to share with people the day-to-day joys that yoga can bring into one's life-not just the physical aspects.

There's a terrible dark joy when the only person who knows all your secrets is finally dead.

Discovering the 'impossible' ending to a new book makes me sick with joy and relief.

That's how a good story works. It changes how you feel. It brings you to a greater appreciation, a greater joy, of your own existence.

It's been a huge joy, this experience of being a mom ... I don't know how to articulate it yet, because it is so fresh.

The joy with which we denigrate each others' efforts, I hate that.

I would pray that I'd leave a legacy of faith, trust and joy. For the joy of the Lord has been my strength and song, and I praise Him.

True joy is a profound remembering; and true grief the same.

President Obama has appointed a new head of the Secret Service. The new Secret Service director was so excited that he jumped over the White House fence for joy.

Stretch out your hand and receive the world's wide gift of joy, appreciation and beauty.

I've been blessed, I think, to have tremendous joy in my life in pursuing my vocation, my calling.

I'm a bluesman moving through a blues-soaked America, a blues-soaked world, a planet where catastrophe and celebration - joy and pain - sit side by side.

And as a Christian, I got something the world didn't give me, the world can't take away, so I find joy that can never be reduced to anything.

I believe if we can wait long enough that every honorable sorrow will become a kind of joy.

All the love and joy that a man has ever received in perception is laid up in him as the sunshine of a hundred years is laid up in the bole of the oak.

There is more to joy than looking only for affirmation; refusing to be challenged is the only bigotry.

The dance lives in all mankind as a necessary motor-rhythmic expression of excess energy and the joy of living.

If I take my whole, passionate, spiritual and physical love to the woman who in return loves me, that is how I serve God. And my hymn and my game of joy is my work.

Democracy and equality try to denythe mystic recognition of difference and innate priority, the joy of obedience and the sacred responsibility of authority.

Yea, Paris is a festive ton -- a festive Ton for all! Skate o'er on joy -- Thin crust of gilded, polished joy! What matters it if Hell's beneath?

Appreciate how rare and full of potential your situation is in this world, then take joy in it, and use it to your best advantage.

Where there is a mind, there are feelings such as pain, pleasure, and joy. No sentient being wants pain: all wants happiness instead.

Compassion is one of the principal things that make our lives meaningful. It is the source of all lasting happiness and joy.

There is joy in rationality, happiness in clarity of mind. Freethought is thrilling and fulfilling - absolutely essential to mental health and happiness.

Merely to live without a pain Is little gladness, little gain, Ah, welcome joy tho' mixt with grief-- The thorn-set flower that crowns the leaf.