Joy Quotes
Hatred is a burden that can hunt you day by day, robbing you off your personal joy in broad day light.
Haters can never rejoice especially when their enemy wins. The moment you can’t be happy when someone wins, watch yourself. That habit is not good for you.
And Priests in black gowns, were walking their rounds, And binding with briars, my joys & desires.
For one wild, glad moment we snapped the chain that binds us to earth, and joining hands with the winds we felt ourselves divine.
The leader’s joy is the success of change, the evidence of progress and the actualization of a better life.
Life without playing music is inconceivable for me. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music, I get most joy in life out of music.
For what is love itself, for the one we love best? - an enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love.
Fred dislikes the idea going into the ministry partly because he doesn't like "feeling obligated to look serious", and he centers his doubts on "what people expect of a clergyman".
So overjoyed were they at their deliverance that they laughed aloud, and the Earth seemed to them like a flower of silver, and the Moon like a flower of gold.
We are fragile creatures, and it is from this weakness, not despite it, that we discover the possibility of true joy.
The more time you spend thinking about yourself, the more suffering you will experience.
I suppose that I have not many months to live: but of course I know nothing about it. I may add that I am enjoying existence as much as ever, and regret nothing.
What had she have to wish for? Nothing but to grow more worthy of him whose intentions and judgment had been ever so superior to her own.
What had she to wish for? Nothing, but to grow more worthy of him whose intentions and judgment had been ever so superior to her own.
The third element of love is mudita, joy. True love always brings joy to ourselves and to the one we love. If our love does not bring joy to both of us, it is not true love.
I had a strange feeling that Fate had in store for me exquisite joys and exquisite sorrows.
No matter what the climate is, what the troubles are, what the difficulties are, there is joy for the child of God, because joy is produced supernaturally by the Holy Spirit in us.
Without Him our daily routine would become tiresome and tedious, a drudgery rather than a joy.
Only the forward-looking Christian remains sincerely optimistic and joyful, knowing that Christ will win in the end.
Without dark clouds in our lives we would never know the joy of sunshine. We can become callous and unteachable if we do not learn from pain.
The ability to rejoice in any situation is a sign of spiritual maturity.
Pleasures are the things that appeal to our flesh and to our lust. But joy is something else. Joy runs deep.
We have to be tuned to God. We will never be free from discouragement and despondency until we know and walk with the very fountainhead of joy.
Suddenly he knew joy and sorrow felted into one fabric. Courage and fear were one thing too.
Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home… it's your responsibility to love it, or change it.
Joy is the goal of existence, and joy is not to be stumbled upon, but to be achieved, and the act of treason is to let its vision drown in the swamp of the moment’s torture.
The statue was of a young man with a tall, gaunt body and an angular face. He held his head as if he faced a challenge and found joy in his capacity to meet it.
There is no greater sorrow than to recall our time of joy in wretchedness.
To drive free, to love free, to court destruction with taunts. One brief house of madness and joy!
When we're constantly thinking about ourselves, our world shrinks.
Abundance in life is achieved only when we tear down walls and fill our lives with light.
In lifting another person, we also lift ourselves.
Our joy in life is inexorably determined by the degree to which we love.
We can achieve the fullest measure of life by living it for others.
One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one’s own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns and derives from love.
The girl laughed again. The joy of a caged bird was in her voice.
Instead of imposing new obligations, (Christians) should appear as people who wish to share their joy, who point to a horizon of beauty and who invite others to a delicious banquet.
