Joy Quotes

By letting our children lead us to their own special places we can rediscover the joy and wonder of nature.

We can conserve energy and tread more lightly on the Earth while we expand our culture's capacity for joy.

There can be no joy without gratitude.

Armed with my sword and wand, I was all set for a stroll through the swamp to look for a hungry monster. Oh, joy!

We're not in control but we do have a greater hope and we do have a source of joy that isn't based on our circumstances.

When the Christian praises and gives thanks to God, this not only pleases God, but it enriches the Christian's life with joy. It is a reciprocating transaction between God and man.

I've found joy, peace and perspective. Those are very good things to have.

The joy of working at something to find out what it means to me is what I grew up with.

This is misguided and toxic and ultimately subverts the contagious spread of Jesus' message of love, peace, forgiveness and joy that our world desperately needs to hear.

God gives us what we want. For people who want nothing to do with peace, joy, reconciliation and peace... God will give you what you want. I see people make unbelievably destructive choices.

The joy is in the creation. So I've never had a target audience, it's always been about being true to the work as it emerges.

We all want to make a difference, to live in peace, to have joy each morning that we get to live this day and see what it brings.

I love the shared experience of watching a movie with my kids. One of the great joys in life is when we're all laughing together, at the same thing.

Each one of us has the ability to play the game of life with balance, harmony and joy, but we need to know the rules and the principles.

Of joys departed, not to return, how painful the remembrance

What joy is better than the news of friends?

Desire joy and thank God for it. Renounce it, if need be, for other's sake. That's joy beyond joy.

The ultimate, angels' law, Indulging every instinct of the soul There where law, life, joy, impulse are one thing!

Sing, riding 's a joy! For me I ride.

Sometimes we forget that our Heavenly Father desires that each of us have this joy.

Now no joy but lacks salt That is not dashed with pain And weariness and fault; I crave the stain Of tears, the aftermark Of almost too much love, The sweet of bitter bark And burning clove.

Accepting the gift may take the accumulated wisdom of some trodden miles, but it also opens the welcome windows of joy.

It's my wish that I can help creative people think of new ways to be creative - to get more joy and understanding from their own unique processes.

There's a cool web of language winds us in, Retreat from too much joy or too much fear: We grow sea-green at last and coldly die In brininess and volubility.

Whoever increases the sum of human joy, is a worshiper. He who adds to the sum of human misery, is a blasphemer.

Joy is wealth and love is the legal tender of the soul.

Taking responsibility takes all the joy out of life, and drains a man to dust.

And the true realism, always and everywhere, is that of the poets: to find out where joy resides, and give it a voice far beyond singing. For to miss the joy is to miss all.

May those who have touched our canvas with their eyes and hearts grow knowing the joy and wonder of an artist of life.

Miss life's simplest blessings and you'll miss out on life's greatest joys.

When I was born I brought no joy, my father said he wanted a boy!

Joy is the effect which comes when we use our powers.

When no one is selfless in a relationship, there is war. When one is selfless, there is peace. When both are selfless, there is joy.

If love is something you cherish, it is hard to glean much joy from death, even in one's enemies.

The joy in catching butterflies is the joy of capturing - for an instant - utter beauty. The satisfaction of being able to let it go is immense.

I enjoy working with Deborah Ann, I think she's brilliant. It's been a joy.

Enjoy the joy of being enjoyed by God.

God's creative design was that your ravenous appetite for pleasure find fulfillment in Him, for nothing more wonderfully reveals His glory than the joy the creature has in its Creator.

Year chases year, decay pursues decay, Still drops some joy from with'ring life away; New forms arise, and diff'rent views engage

The fiction of happiness is propagated by every tongue and confirmed by every look till at last all profess the joy which they do not feel and consent to yield to the general delusion.

I had but one joy, the apple of the eye of my delights , to preach Christ my Lord

For compassion a human heart suffices, but for full and adequate sympathy, with joy, an angel's only.

I have found words [in the Bible] for my inmost thoughts, songs for my joy, utterances for my hidden griefs, and pleadings for my shame and my feebleness.

Joy rises in me, like a summer's morn.

Go find your joy. It's what you're going to remember in the end.

It's such a joy to be able to play someone who is angry. It's a joy and a relief. Having to be nice all the time is exhausting and boring.

There are lots of ways to bring joy, happiness, peace, laughter, hope and comfort into your life, and they cost absolutely nothing.

I started thinking about joy. Everything in our society is so purposeful. Let's bring joy back to the experience.

I shall not let a sorrow die Until I find the heart of it, Nor let a wordless joy go by Until it talks to me a bit.

So we strive for perfection in the areas in which we can control, and that isn't necessarily what provides contentment and joy for ourselves and, more importantly, for our children.