Joy Quotes

Today's circumstances are out of your control but you CAN control your response. Don't let a negative outlook kill your joy today.

Spring's greatest joy beyond a doubt is when it brings the children out.

time is a terrible thing because it erases joys and pains at the same time.

Music exalts each joy, allays each grief, expels diseases, softens every pain.

There is a calmness to a life lived in gratitude, a quiet joy.

Happiness always has an object... Depends on external things. Joy... Has no object. It seizes you for no apparent reason, it's like the sun, its burning is fueled by its own heart.

Your natural inclination is to preach and to warn other travellers of snags in the path, but isn't it better to signal to them some of the joys by the way which they might otherwise miss?

Fear of joy is the darkest of captivities.

While it is February one can taste the full joys of anticipation. Spring stands at the gate with her finger on the latch.

Your closet needs to be a place of joy and celebration of who are you now - not who you were.

When joy and prayer are married, their first born child is gratitude.

It's your life... why not fill it with as much joy as possible?

Victory over others brings us satisfaction, but victory over ourselves brings us joy.

By the wood-shed is a brook. It goes singing on. Its joy-song does sing in my heart.

The problem of evil is raised more often by spectators of life than the actual combatants. You will hardly ever find that the great sufferers are the great skeptics.

To attain eternal happiness one must suffer. He who has reached the state of self-sacrifice has true joy. Temporal joy will vanish.

Until further notice, celebrate everything.

Existence is this, I thought, a start of joy, a stab of pain, an intense pleasure, veins that pulse under the skin, there is no other truth to tell.

Love is cheering and sharing and compassion, and giving and receiving. Love is an action thing more than a word thing, that brings comfort or joy, or relief to anyone or anything.

In contentment and joy are found the height and perfection of all love towards our neighbor.

Dressing is a way of life. It brings you joy. It can give you freedom and liberation, help you to find yourself and to move without restraint. Isn't elegance forgetting what one is wearing?

No person can be a great leader unless he takes genuine joy in the successes of those under him.

The past is gone, the future is not here, now I am free of both. Right now, I choose joy.

Life is not just something to be endured. It is to be lived in joy, in a fullness without limit (p.82)

You can only feel creative when there is joy. When there is a sense of passion.

Once the joy of intimacy with God has been experienced, life becomes unbearable without it.

I want to be awake. I want to choose kindness, live & let live. I want joy, gratitude, and peace today.

It's always such a joy that you wake up in the morning and there's work to do.

I want to live in a society where people are intoxicated with the joy of making things.

The Prince, charmed with these words, and much more with the manner in which they were spoken, knew not how to show his joy and gratitude; he assured her that he loved her better than he did himself.

Worrying is worthless. When you stop focusing on what has already happened and what may never happen, then you'll be in the present moment. Then you'll begin to experience joy in life.

Idolatry is when you become the source of your own joy. Poverty of spirit is a wonderful thing.

My mind to me a kingdom is, such present joys therein I find, that it excels all other bliss.

Gloom we have always with us, a rank and sturdy weed, but joy requires tending.

The bitterness of joy lies in the knowledge that is cannot last. Nor should joy last beyond a certain season, for, after that season, even joy would become merely habit.

Love is the keynote, Joy is the music, Knowledge is the performer, the Infinite All is the composer and audience.

A Jazz man should be saying what he feels: humor, sadness, joy... all the things that humans have.

I don't really care how I am remembered as long as I bring happiness and joy to people.

Be good, keep your feet dry, your eyes open, your heart at peace and your soul in the joy of Christ.

Despite my solitary life, I have found infinite joy in books and writing, and am by far too much interested in the affairs of the world to quit the scene before Nature shall claim me.

Joy to the world All the boys and girls now Joy to the fishes in the deep blue sea Joy to you and me

So much in life seems inflexible and unchangeable, and part of the joy of running and especially racing is the realization that improvement and progress can be achieved.

They have a joy for life in Brazil unlike any country I've ever seen.

Joy isn't grounded in our circumstances; it is grounded in the unchanging character of God.

Gratitude helps you to grow and expand; gratitude brings joy and laughter into your life and into the lives of all those around you.

Don't let your fear of failing triumph over the joy of participating.

Venice is not only a city of fantasy and freedom. It is also a city of joy and pleasure.

Do the work. Do the analysis. But feel your run. Feel your race. Feel the joy that is running.

I try to remember that the job - as well as the plight, and the unexpected joy - of the artist is to embrace uncertainty, to be sharpened and honed by it.

strength is overcome by weakness/Joy is overcome by Pain/The night is overcome by Brightness/and Love-it remains the same.