Joy Quotes

The source of joy is within yourself. Unless and until you seek yourself you cannot seek God.

In love you don't doubt, no question. Only when you think you doubt, but when you love you don't doubt, you just love because you enjoy love. And that's why love is joy and joy is love.

That's the quality of the Spirit that you start feeling so joyous and the joy doesn't have the duality of happiness and unhappiness. It's singular.

In emotions you should be bubbling with joy. Joy is your emotion. In action you should be thoughtless and in ascent you should be surrendered.

What is most important is your Spirit. Why identify with anything else but your own spirit? You cannot get money out of it. No. The joy of Spirit is the reward of Spirit.

Change according to the Spirit all your priorities, and then joy is your own.

Joy is not like happiness, unhappiness. It is singular.

One has to understand that we have to become a higher personality which is the spirit, which is the truth, which is the enlightened attention, and which is the joy.

Why?” Eve leaned forward. “Sincerely, I’ve always wanted to know why anyone buys multiple pairs of shoes at a time.” “If I have to explain it, the joy is lost.

Have I missed a national holiday? There must be celebrations in the streets for you to be home at this hour of the day." "I'm calling it Summerset Goes Mute Day. The city's gone mad with joy.

I think playing music is one of my great joys in life.

A dog wakens your heart to joy and companionship.

There's no doubt that there's a struggling in birth, and a beauty and a horror and fear and joy too.

She tried to imagine what Charles would do if another man came up to him and said, "You bring me joy.

If there are moments in my work when people find joy and humour, that's a real success for me.

I will say the most raw joy I've experienced reading has probably come from the times I've been reading with my little boys.

I think its very important to not be afraid to experience joy in the middle of sorrow.

I would say that Edgar Allan Poe, [Georges] Perec, Thomas Pynchon, and [Jorge Luis] Borges are all boy-writers. These are writers who take... a kind of demonic joy in writing.

The joy of painting lies precisely in the challenge of memory and the challenge of translation from the lived experience to the two-dimensional or three-dimensional symbol.

Help them to learn songs of joy, instead of burn, baby, burn.

Believers have a genuine, unfailing hope of a future reunion with loved ones. We can find joy in anticipating our future reunion.

There's a layer of satisfaction that I get from cooking that is more than the work itself. I think when you're too competitive sometimes you can lose the joy of what you do.

Sometimes I think you can lose the joy in what you do. It becomes a sense of 'I've got to beat him, I've got to beat him,' and you lose your own sense of joy.

A commencement is a time of joy. It is also a time of melancholy. But then again, so is life.

Over-anxiety ultimately banishes every trace of joy from life.

The latin word responsibility reveals its true meaning: the capacity to respond, to act. - Over-anxiety ultimately banishes every trace of joy from life.

Everyone contributes a word, a sentence, an image, but in the end it all makes sense: the happiness of one becomes the joy of all.

Don't allow anyone to steal your joy.

In dire times you can lose joy, but you can't lose hope. Hope is your guide.

Postpone joy, it will diminish. Postpone a problem, it will grow.

Defeat is for the valiant. Only they will know the honor of losing and the joy of winning.

Each human being has the right to seek out joy, joy being understood as something which makes one content - not necessarily that which makes others content.

He is the greatest player in the world right now, without a doubt, he is the player who gives Brazilians the most joy. (on Ronaldinho)

As much as I disagreed with every second of 'Fahrenheit 9/11,' the fact that it is out made me jump for joy.

I have drunken deep of joy.

What is central to business is the joy of creating.

Beauty is not a concept. It is the animal joy of the mind.

Hark, the glad sound! The Saviour comes, The Saviour promised long; Let every heart exult with joy, And every voice be song!

To me, thoughts are fun and art is fun. The strength of our society should not be idle entertainments but the joy of pursuing ideas.

Joy Is for the simple or the great to feel, Neither of which we are.

Laughter almost ever cometh of things most disproportioned to ourselves and nature: delight hath a joy in it either permanent or present; laughter hath only a scornful tickling.

[Photography is a] hair-raising joy ride in a medium that, despite being a mechanical trick, can break down the division between mind and matter like a superhero, or an artist.

Joy in one's work is the consummate tool.

Who bathes in worldly joys, swims in a world of fears.

For me the first great joy of traveling is simply the luxury of leaving all my beliefs and certainties at home, and seeing everything I thought I knew in a different light, and from a crooked angle.

Various are the uses of friends, beyond all else in difficulty, but joy also looks for trust that is clear in the eyes.

It is our human lot, it is heaven's will, that sorrow follow joy.

I want to say one word to you and this word is “Joy”. Wherever there are consecrated people, seminarians, men and women religious, young people, there is joy, there is always joy!

We cannot live as Christians separate from the rock who is Christ. He gives us strength and stability, but also joy and serenity.

Ours is not a joy born of having many possessions, but of having encountered a person: Jesus in our midst.