Joy Quotes

He gave us taste buds, then filled the world with incredible flavors like chocolate and cinnamon and...

A true saying it is, ‘Desire hath no rest;‘ is infinite in itself, endless; and as one calls it, a p...

Gene [Siskel] often mentioned something François Truffaut once told him: the most beautiful sight in...

We laugh, that we may not cry.

To make others less happy is a crime. To make ourselves unhappy is where all crime starts. We must t...

Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfil...

Now, I believe in life, and I believe in the joy of human existence, but these things cannot be expe...

Football is about joy. It's about dribbling. I favour every idea that makes the game beautiful. Ever...

Taking joy in living is a woman's best cosmetic.

The Church is the new creation, it is life and joy, it is the sacramental fellowship in which we sha...

And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, till the Devil whispe...

The garden of love is green without limit and yields many fruits other than sorrow or joy. Love is b...

The indescribable pleasure—which pales the rest of life's joys—is abundant compensation for the inve...

Laughter is wine for the soul - laughter soft, or loud and deep, tinged through with seriousness - t...

Herein is a capital truth. It is not the natural capacity, the congenital gift, nor is it the effort...

The joy of learning is as indispensable in study as breathing is in running. Where it is lacking the...

My contemplation is an excruciation only because it is also a joy.

So I loathed all the fruit of my effort, for which I worked so hard on earth, because I must leave i...

True humility means giving joy to others.

Real joy means immediate expansion. If we experience pure joy, immediately our heart expands. We fee...

When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.

True inner joy is self-created.It does not depend on outer circumstances.A river is flowing in and t...

Are you afraid now?" said Gregor."At times," she admitted. "But it is no worse than if I were in Reg...

There are, as is known, insects that die in the moment of fertilization. So it is with all joy: life...

And when the hourglass has run out, the hourglass of temporality, when the noise of secular life has...

Learning should be a joy and full of excitement. It is life's greatest adventure it is an illustrate...

The first question they ask is: "Why was he eternally surprised?"And they were told: "Wen considered...

Joy is to fun what the deep sea is to a puddle. It’s a feeling inside that can hardly be contained.

I trust all joy

Although not a very old man, I have yet lived a great deal in my life, and I have known sorrow too b...

The joy of living is his who has the heart to demand it.

I was glad to hear that you were to be confirmed.

The soul is like an uninhabited worldthat comes to life only whenGod lays His headagainst us.

Of all the things which man can do or make here below, by far the most momentous, wonderful, and wor...

Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.

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

Do not look for rest in any pleasure, because you were not created for pleasure: you were created fo...

If it be a point of humanity for man to bring health and comfort to man, and especially to mitigate ...

Finding the real joy of Christmas comes not in the hurrying and the scurrying to get more done, nor ...

No one has learned the meaning of living until he has surrendered his ego to the service of his fell...

Christmas is the spirit of giving without a thought of getting. It is happiness because we see joy i...

Price is rarely the most important thing. A cheap product might sell some units. Somebody gets it ho...

There are some people who have the quality of richness and joy in them and they communicate it to ev...

No matter what all your teeth and wet fingers anticipated, there was no accounting for the way that ...

As we did without clergy, let us do without soldiers. The joy built upon successful slaughter is not...

Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.

The poor man shuddered, overflowed with an angelic joy; he declared in his transport that this would...

Oh, if only I could hurt with such misery once again, to feel the powers of love here inside my hear...

The melancholy river bears us on. When the moon comes through the trailing willow boughs, I see your...

alone, condemned, deserted, as those who are about to die are alone, there was a luxury in it, an is...

What she liked was simply life. "That's what i did it for," she said, speaking aloud to life... Coul...

And the poor lady, so small in her black satin, shrivelled up and sallow, with her funny corkscrew c...

Come, said my SoulSuch verses for my Body let us write, (for we are one,)That should I after death i...

To drive free, to love free, to court destruction with taunts. One brief house of madness and joy!

He imagines a necessary joy in things that must fly to eat.

She was another gift, surely, to us all. She was a happiness that made me cry.

The sunlight now lay over the valley perfectly still. I went over to the graveyard beside the church...

[All the ancient wisdom] tells us that work is necessary to us, as much a part of our condition as m...

Connection is health. And what our society does its best to disguise from us is how ordinary, how co...

We are working well when we use ourselves as the fellow creatures of the plants, animals, materials,...

Dance,' they told me, and I stood still,and while I stood quiet in line at the gate of the Kingdom, ...

Although we cannot command it, we choose joy, making a deliberate commitment to happiness (essential...

This is the real power of joy, to make us certain that, beneath all grief, the most fundamental of r...

In grief, part of the pain comes from our feeling that we should not suffer so - that it is fundamen...

At any time, and under any circumstances of human interest, is it not strange to see how little real...

Miss Fairlie laughed with a ready good-humour, which broke out as brightly as if it had been part of...

Joys impregnate. Sorrows bring forth.

And Priests in black gowns, were walking their rounds, And binding with briars, my joys & desires.

The possibilities were endless. Battles would be fought. Wonders revealed. Many journeys. Many lands...

There's a joy and a pain about directing where the dreams you have are becoming concrete but the att...

When you've done the technical part, you're then into the joy, the zen, into being. Technology no lo...

...The happy Warrior... is he... whose powers shed round him in the common strife, or mild concerns ...

Henry had written a novel because there was a hole in him that needed filling, a question that neede...

I think that peace is, in many ways, a precondition of joy.

Otaguro’s bosom heaved with an ineffable surge of joy. “Every man is fighting,” he murmured. “Every ...

It became clear that Keisha Blake could not start something without finishing it. If she climbed ont...

You should find the same joy in one condition as in the other and thereby be free of care, that is a...

I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river.

So it is said, for him who understands Heavenly joy, life is the working of Heaven; death is the tra...

When I speak of good hearing, I do not mean listening to others; I mean simply listening to yourself...

The festivity had reached that apogee of joy when you face the happy fate of being crushed to death.

Everywhere we shine death and life burn into something new…

Authentic inspiration endows individuals with mental or spiritual energy which they are then able to...

Dare to love yourselfas if you were a rainbowwith gold at both ends.

Then came the healing time, hearts started to shine, soul felt so fine, oh what a freeing time it wa...

Got just enough room to be a friend of yours. Oh I hope you got room to be a friend of mine.

Individual cultures and ideologies have their appropriate uses but none of them erase or replace the...

Your pain is a school unto itself–– and your joy a lovely temple.

Where humanitysowed faith, hope, and unity, joy’s garden blossomed.

We can cry for years but sometimes gotta smile too.

Thou hast Drawn laughter from A well of secret tears And thence so elvish it rings, -mocking And swe...

There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.

Yves Klein said it was the essence of colour itself: the colour that stood for all other colours. A ...

Making love was a game of echoes. We had shared memories so many times that when I made love to her,...

I can tell you, dearest friend, that if it became known how much friendship, love and a world of hum...

I was assailed by memories of a life that wasn't mine anymore, but one in which I'd found the simple...

Life without playing music is inconceivable for me. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in t...

Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

The interior joy we feel when we have done a good deed is the nourishment the soul requires.