Joy Quotes

There is no time like the pleasant.

Joy is obtaining a big, loving, caring shut-knit household in yet another town.

Her air, her manners, all who saw admir'd; Courteous though coy, and gentle though retir'd; The joy of youth and health her eyes display'd, And ease of heart her every look convey'd.

Joy is the best of wine.

Thought Has joys apart, even in blackest woe, And seizing some fine thread of verity Knows momentary godhead.

To weepe for joy is a kinde of Manna.

For the atom's soul is nothing but energy. Spirit blazes in the dullest of clay. The life of every woman or man - the heart of it - is pure and holy joy.

A dead enemy is a joy forever

There was an agelessness about him, a stillness; on Roose Bolton's face, rage and joy looked much the same.

...Ned always said that the man who passes the sentence should swing the blade, though he never took any joy in the duty. But I would, oh, yes.

I see this quality [real interest and joy] in the work of [Pavel] Chekhov, of course, and [Alexei] Tolstoy and really just about any great writer.

I think once you recognize the unconditional love of an Almighty, it tends to put joy in your heart. Which in my case, it did.

Sometimes I'm frustrated. Rarely surprised. Sometimes I'm happy, you know. But war is not a time of joy.

When you have no experience of pain, it is rather hard to experience joy.

Invariably, it is this for which I write: the joy ... of an argument firmly made, like a nail straightly driven, its head flush to the plank.

Women have a smile for every joy, a tear for every sorrow, a consolation for every grief, an excuse for every fault, a prayer for every misfortune, and encouragement for every hope.

The joy of the roasts is to watch people get hurt and offended, and then have to laugh to pretend they're a good sport.

We actually love ourselves more than we love joy.

Surprise is the secret of joy.

Joy, which was the small publicity of the pagan, is the gigantic secret of the Christian.

In an age when all that was old seems new again, Bernard DeVoto's The Hour couldn't have made a more timely reappearance. This book reminds me of one of the joys of being an adult-cocktail hour!

Perfect purity, fullness of joy, everlasting freedom, perfect rest, health and fruition, complete security, substantial and eternal good.

The very best of all Merwin: I have been reading William since 1952, and always with joy.

The same quickness which makes a mind buoyant in gladness often makes it gentlest and most sympathetic in sorrow.

A thing of beauty is a joy till sunrise.

All my life, I have loved and been inspired by French cinema, and as a studio head it has been my pride and joy to have the ability to bring movies to audiences around the world.

The aesthetic pleasure of dance is a secondary reflection of the primary, vital joy of courtship.

We depict hatred, but it is to depict that there are more important things. We depict a curse, to depict the joy of liberation.

I love to do movies. That's something that I find so much joy in, in being able to travel around and play new characters.

Joy could be as exhausting as grief.

I love my work, and I think that I was so lucky to pick a profession where it's a joy to go to work every day.

Fear is for the old. Lack of it is one of the joys of youth.

I am a pack of nerves while waiting for the moment, and this feeling grows and grows and grows and then it explodes, it is a physical joy, a dance, space and time united. Yes, yes, yes, yes!

Joy is the vital air of the soul.

Sadness takes up the pen more readily than joy.

A painting in an interior spreads joy around it by the colors, which calm us.

There is joy guaranteed for the faithful.

At this and every season, our Savior invites us to join with HIM and others to offer the priceless gift of JOY.

Not when the sense is dim, But now from the heart of joy, I would remember Him: Take the thanks of a boy.

We are superior to the joy we experience.

Those undeserved joys which come uncalled and make us more pleased than grateful are they that sing.

Cowards suffer, heroes enjoy.

A journal, is a book that shall contain a record of all your joy, your ecstasy, what you are grateful for.

Whenever any great song or album gets lost in the ether, someone is deprived of the joy of hearing it, and the great effort of those who created and recorded the work is damaged.

I believe that contentment or any sustained period of joy that doesn't inspire thought that leads to action almost immediately is useless.

No grief has a right to immortality. That ground belongs to joy, to hope, to faith.

Affliction comes to us all ...not to impoverish, but to enrich us, as the plough enriches the field; to multiply our joy, as the seed, by planting, is multiplied a thousand-fold.

A very common flower adds generosity to beauty. It gives joy to the poor, to the rude, and to the multitudes who could have no flowers were nature to charge a price for her blossoms.

Both the ancestry and posterity of Grief go further than the ancestry and posterity of Joy.

Delight,--top-gallant delight is to him, who acknowledges no law or lord, but the Lord his God, and is only a patriot to heaven.