Joy Quotes

If sadness comes to you one day with an invitation, tell it you are committed to joy and will be faithful to it your whole life long.

Everything I do has to come from a sense of fun and joy.

And whoso is found a faithful, a just, and a wise steward shall enter into the joy of his Lord, and shall inherit eternal life.

And e'en while fashion's brightest arts decoy, The heart distrusting asks if this be joy.

Lasting joy is found not in what you get, but in what you give.

I know for sure that's what we're here to do: Keep the joy thing going for all seasons.

I've seen that many times in rural African villages where people have nothing but a hut and a bowl. The joy in the children's eyes is something you wish you could package and bring back to America.

Instead of looking for the success in your life, look for the thing that is going to bring you the greatest joy.

Joy is one part inner peace, one part giddy delight and 100% attainable.

The snow reminded me of the beauty and mystery of creation, of the essential joy that is life.

Christianity has been cruel in much to the human race. It has quenched much of the sweet joy and gladness of life; it has caused the natural passions and affections of it to be held as sins.

The joy of a strong nature is as cloudless as its suffering is desolate.

What we love once, we love forever. Shall there be joy in heaven over those who repent, yet no forgiveness for them upon earth? --"Wanda

There is some joy in weeping. For our tears Fill up the cup, then wash our pain away.

Few people want the pleasures they are free to take.

We take no pleasure in permitted joys, But what's forbidden is more keenly sought.

The poet's labors are a work of joy, and require peace of mind.

There is no pleasure pure and simple, and some care always comes to mar our joys.

Grant me profits only, grant me the joy of profit made, and see to it that I enjoy cheating the buyer!

I feel joy when I do a great show. I get fun out of making other people happy. I'm a terminal people-pleaser. I suppose that's why I'm a frontman.

I feel joy when I do a great show.

As soon as a baby enters the world, the baby is immediately introduced to pain. It is somewhat symbolic that life begins with a cry.

It means that God's Creation has not its source in any necessity; it comes from his fullness of joy; it is his love that creates, therefore in Creation is his own revealment.

Yes, all my illusions will burn into illumination of joy, and all my desires ripen into fruits of love.

What tries to break us is endlessly fascinating to me. Joy is a whole different game to express.

If I weren't already dead, I'd be alive with joy.

The most visible joy can only reveal itself to us when we've transformed it, within.

To all that is used-up, and to all the muffled and dumb creatures in the world's full reserve, the unsayable sums, joyfully add yourself, and cancel the count.

Be forever dead in Eurydice-more gladly arise into the seamless life proclaimed in your song. Here, in the realm of decline, among momentary days, be the crystal cup that shattered even as it rang.

Rose, oh pure contradiction, joy of being No-one's sleep under so many lids.

How to find joy? Let your ambition disappear; ambition is the barrier. Ambition means an ego trip: "I want to be this, I want to be that - more money, more power, more prestige."

Pride ruined the angels, Their shame them restores; And the joy that is sweetest Lurks in stings of remorse.

The secret of fortune is joy in our hands.

For the time of towns is tolled from the world by funereal chimes, but in nature the universal hours are counted by succeeding tribes of animals and plants, and by growth of joy on joy.

Love should make joy; but our benevolence is unhappy. Our Sunday-schools, and churches, and pauper-societies are yokes to the neck. We pain ourselves to please nobody.

Every promise of the soul has innumerable fulfillments; each of its joys ripens into a new want.

It is a greater joy to see the author's author, than himself.

The only joy in his being mine, is that the not mine is mine.

In the actual world--the painful kingdom of time and place--dwell care, and canker, and fear. With thought, with the ideal, is immortal hilarity, the rose of joy.

The soul is love, joy. Joy. Peace. Wisdom.

I think that people will find a tremendous joy and fulfillment in service to other human beings, and that often this is what is missing in their lives.

When my thirst for joy is satisfied by Christ, sin becomes unattractive.

A million tomorrows shall all pass away 'ere I forget all the joy that is mine, today.

Joy is the grace we say to God.

Ordering pizza and jamming out with the contestants in our hotels and traveling the country together brought me so much joy.

I like to talk about weirdness. We all have strange thoughts and ideas, and when you really trust someone you can express them. And they can express them to you, and that's one of the joys of life.

Consistently practice love and everything that falls under the category of love: gratitude, laughter, friendship, joy, forgiveness, acceptance, peace, and trust.

I think the joy of wanting to direct is having that nervous anxiety knowing your film is about to be shown and you're sitting right there with everyone.

Joy may be a miser, But Sorrow's purse is free.

There is no sorrow like a love denied. Nor any joy like love that has its will.