Joy Quotes

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

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

I've learned what "ﾂ歪lassical' means. It means something that sings and dances through sheer joy of existence.

In the Cross is salvation; in the Cross is life; in the Cross is protection against our enemies; in the Cross is infusion of heavenly sweetness; in the Cross is strength of mind; in the Cross is joy of spirit; in the Cross is excellence of virtue; in the Cross is perfection of holiness. There is no salvation of soul, nor hope of eternal life, save in the Cross.

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

Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices - today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it.

Only by living at the edge of death can you understand the indescribable joy of life - Shogun.

If things don't come easy, there is no premium on effort. There should be joy in the chase, zest in the pursuit.

God's gift to his sorrowing creatures is a joy worthy of their destiny.

My principle anguish and the source of all my joys and sorrows from my youth onward has been the incessant, merciless battle between the spirit and the flesh.

There is no such thing as the pursuit of happiness, but there is the discovery of joy.

The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic, or intellectual, forms a bridge between the sharers which can be the basis for understanding much of what is not shared between them, and lessens the threat of their difference.

Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.

I've spent more time than many will believe [making microscopic observations], but I've done them with joy, and I've taken no notice those who have said why take so much trouble and what good is it?

We shall serve for the joy of serving, prosperity shall flow to us and through us in unending streams of plenty.

Don't shrink from natures brutal perfection. Take joy in it. Embrace it. Understand it and revel in it. Respect it's strength, it's wisdom, it's brutality and it's all-encompassing power. The highest law has always been, and shall be, nature; and the greatest wisdom forever lives in and through nature's eternal Fascism.

He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.

What? I bring joy to the world. I am filled with mirth and sunlight. Also, I am Batman.

Of all the joys that lighten suffering earth, what joy is welcomed like a new born child?

As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.

Joy is like restless day; but peace divine like quiet night; Lead me, O Lord, till perfect Day shall shine through Peace to Light.

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

Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.

If each man or woman could understand that every other human life is as full of sorrows, or joys, or base temptations, of heartaches and of remorse as his own . . . how much kinder, how much gentler he would be.

Hopefully, I brought people a certain joy. That will be a wonderful legacy.

Without love and laughter there is no joy; live amid love and laughter.

I'm happy that I have brought laughter because I have been shown by many the value of it in so many lives, in so many ways.

The truth is that life is hard and dangerous; that he who seeks his own happiness does not find it; that he who is weak must suffer; that he who demands love will be disappointed; that he who is greedy will not be fed; that he who seeks peace will find strife; that truth is only for the brave; that joy is only for him who does not fear to be alone; that life is only for the one who is not afraid to die.

The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.

Something about the joy and pain of that moment, something about the excruciating contrast, made me feel that no matter what happens now, my life has been worth it. What a ride.

Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.

Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.

Some days there won't be a song in your heart. Sing anyway.

It is one of the great joys of home ownership to fire a pistol in one's own bedroom

What a joy it is to dance and sing!

Into the nothingness of scorn and noise, Into the living sea of waking dreams, Where there is neither sense of life or joys, But the vast shipwreck of my life's esteems; And e'en the dearest—that I love the best— Are strange—nay, rather stranger than the rest.

Once my heart was captured, reason was shown the door, deliberately and with a sort of frantic joy. I accepted everything, I believed everything, without struggle, without suffering, without regret, without false shame. How can one blush for what one adores?

If you clean it up, get analytical, all the subtle joy and emotion you felt in the first place goes flying out the window.

We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.

Shared joy is increased, shared pain is lessened.

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

Not by appointment do we meet delight Or joy; they heed not our expectancy; But round some corner of the streets of life they of a sudden greet us with a smile.

You have to remember one life, one death"“this one! To enter fully the day, the hour, the moment whether it appears as life or death, whether we catch it on the inbreath or outbreath, requires only a moment, this moment. And along with it all the mindfulness we can muster, and each stage of our ongoing birth, and the confident joy of our inherent luminosity. (24)

Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.

I would say that the surest measure of a man's or a woman's maturity is the harmony, style, joy, and dignity he creates in his marriage, and the pleasure and inspiration he provides for his spouse.

We all carry it within us: supreme strength, the fullness of wisdom, unquenchable joy. It is never thwarted, and cannot be destroyed.

How we feel about ourselves, the joy we get from living, ultimately depends directly on how the mind filters and interprets everyday experiences. Whether we are happy depends on inner harmony, not on the controls we are able to exert over the great forces of the universe.

That's the thing about being a Labrador retriever - you were born for fun. Seldom was your loopy, freewheeling mind cluttered by contemplation, and never at all by somber worry; every day was a romp. What else could there possibly be to life? Eating was a thrill. Pissing was a treat. Shitting was a joy. And licking your own balls? Bliss. And everywhere you went were gullible humans who patted and hugged and fussed over you.

Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.

The pain we feel When someone leaves our life is in direct proportion to the joy they bring while a part of our life for a few moments. In my life you made me feel as if I truly meant something to someone

Joy cannot be pursued. It comes from within. It is a state of being. It does not depend on circumstances, but triumphs over circumstances. It produces a gentleness of spirit and a magnetic personality.

Our goal should be to achieve joy.

I'm delirious with joy. It proves that if you confront the universe with good intentions in your heart, it will reflect that and reward your intent. Usually. It just doesn't always do it in the way you expect.

Seek to share joy with others, or to make somebody else happy, and you will find your own soul radiant with the joy you wished for another.

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.

If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.

I will be unneeded, and gladly so, when you realize that the vitality and reinforcement and joy are your own, and rise from the fountain of your own beings; when you realize that you do not need me for protection, for there is nothing you need protect yourself against.

Not one of the creatures of blood can escape death. We all face it, and succumb to it. It follows us like a dark shadow. Yet if we live in terror of it, then we do not live at all. Yes we are born alone, and yes we will die alone. But in between, Tae, we live. We know joy.

I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own.

Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing.

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.

I'm real excited. I'm so blessed to have so much peace and joy inside. I just can't keep quiet about it.

Pain has its own noble joy, when it starts a strong consciousness of life, from a stagnant one.

How did I come to be an artist ? Endless curiosity, observation, research - and a great amount of joy in the thing

Joy lies in the fight, in the attempt, in the suffering involved, not in the victory itself

A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked.

In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.

Life is a tragedy full of joy.

There may be Peace without Joy, and Joy without Peace, but the two combined make Happiness.

The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.

Use those talents you have. You will make it. You will give joy to the world. Take this tip from nature: The woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except those who sang best.

Challenge your limitations for the pure joy of challenge.

The tender heart, the broken and contrite spirit, are to me far above all the joys that I could ever hope for in this vale of tears.

My color is my joy and not my burden...

I sing the joy of wandering and the pleasure of the wanderer's death

We saw too much beauty to be cynical, felt too much joy to be dismissive, climbed too many mountains to be quitters, kissed too many girls to be deceivers, saw too many sunrises not to be believers, broke too many strings to be pro's and gave too much love to be concerned where it goes....

A good newspaper is never nearly good enough but a lousy newspaper is a joy forever.

A cheerful look brings joy to the heart.

People are constantly clamoring for the joy of life. As for me, I find the joy of life in the hard and cruel battle of life - to learn something is a joy to me.

I found more joy in sorrow than you could find in joy.

I hate this fast growing tendency to chain men to machines in big factories and deprive them of all joy in their efforts - the plan will lead to cheap men and cheap products.

The very best thing that could happen to a voice, if it shows any promise at all, is when it is very young to leave it alone and to let it develop quite naturally, and to let the person go on as long as possible with the sheer joy of singing.

If I have caused just one person to wipe away a tear of laughter, that's my reward.

The most profound joy has more of gravity than of gaiety in it.

Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys.

The trick is not how much pain you feel - but how much joy you feel

Focus on where you are instead of where you wish you were. The joy will follow.

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing.

Pain shared is pain lessened; joy shared is joy increased. Thus do we refute entropy.

I can still bring into my body the joy I felt at seeing the first trillium of spring, which seemed to be telling me, "Never give up hope, spring will come."

You increase your joy by increasing the pure joy of others.

The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.

Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one's liberty.

The only nice thing about being imperfect is the joy it brings to others.

You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy.

Two things I do value a lot, intimacy and the capacity for joy, didn't seem to be on anyone else s list. I felt like the stranger in a strange land, and decided I'd better not marry the natives.

We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone - but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.

Women, as well as men, in all ages and in all places, have danced on the earth, danced the life dance, danced joy, danced grief, danced despair, and danced hope. Literally and metaphorically, by their very lives.

My heart is singing for joy this morning! A miracle has happened! The light of understanding has shone upon my little pupil's mind, and behold, all things are changed!

Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life.

Only when we try to understand one another's suffering can we begin to bring each other joy.

I cannot sleep - great joy is as restless as great sorrow.

Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.

Every hardship; every joy; every temptation is a challenge of the spirit; that the human soul may prove itself. The great chain of necessity wherewith we are bound has divine significance; and nothing happens which has not some service in working out the sublime destiny of the human soul.

The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just recently fallen in love is undisguisable.

No, there's going to be no even tenor with me. The more uneven it is the happier I shall be. And when my time comes to die, I'll be able to die happy, for I will have done and seen and heard and experienced all the joy, pain, thrills "” every emotion that any human ever had "” and I'll be especially happy if I am spared a stupid, common death in bed.

Search fearlessly for every sin, for out of sin comes joy.

I do it for the joy it brings, cause I'm a joyful girl. 'Cause the world owes us nothing, we owe each other the world.

Let every hindrance to joy become the soil out of which joy blossoms.

This is the true joy of life-the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one, the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown to the scrap-heap; the being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish clod of ailments and grievances.

Money is a strange thing. It ranks with love as our greatest source of joy, and with death as our greatest source of anxiety.

I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.

He who can conceal his joys, is greater than he who can hide his griefs

Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow.

Joy is not the result of getting what you want; it is the way to get what you want. In the deepest sense, joy is what you want.

Joys too exquisite to last, And yet more exquisite when past.

I didn't think Comfort and Joy was going to be a box-office smash.

Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy

The soul's joy lies in doing.

We have become accustomed to living our life with joy amidst pain and challenges.

Our joy now and forever is inextricably tied to our capacity to love.

This moment exhibits infinite space, but there is a space also wherein all moments are infinitely exhibited, and the everlasting duration of infinite space is another region and room of joys.

Do you want a world with . . . more joy and happiness? Then find your own joy and happiness and contribute to the joy and happiness of others.

Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided.

The joy of the mind is the measure of its strength.

With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bent arm for a pillow - I have still joy in the midst of all these things.

I'm glad I did it, partly because it was worth it, but mostly because I shall never have to do it again.

Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.

The greatest joy in nature is the absence of man.

Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how.

If I can bring joy into the world, if I can get people to stop thinking about their pain for a moment, or the fact the tomorrow morning they're going to get up and tell their boss off... then I'll be successful.

Laughter can help relieve tension in even the heaviest of matters.

If we are to understand the human condition, and if we are to accept ourselves in all the complexity, self-doubt, extravagance of feeling, guilt, joy, the slow freeing of the self to its full capacity for action and creation, both as human being and as artist, we have to know all we can about each other, and we have to be willing to go naked.

You shall have joy, or you shall have power, said God; you shall not have both.

Oh, the jealousy, the greed is the unraveling. It's the unraveling and it undoes all the joy that could be. .

Death is as casual and often as unexpected as birth. It is as difficult to define grief as joy. Each is finite. Each will fade.

The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter.

One joy shatters a hundred griefs

When you express your gratitude, you will bring joy to others lives.When others know joy, your life will be filled with happiness.

Sorrow is so woven through us, so much a part of our souls, or at least any understanding of our souls that we are able to attain, that every experience is dyed with its color. This is why, even in moment of joy, part of that joy is the seams of ore that are our sorrow. They burn darkly and beautifully in the midst of joy, and they make joy the complete experience that it is. But they still burn.

You're so pretty as the apple blooms again for joy that you give. (Tu es si jolie que la pomme - Refleurit pour joie que tu donnes.)

Why did children seem to be so often spontaneous, joy-filled and concentrated while adults seemed controlled, anxiety-filled and diffused? It was the Goddam sense of having a self.

On with the dance! Let joy be unconfined

At Earth's great market where Joy is trafficked in, Buy while thy purse yet swells with golden Youth.

The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth. To make a goal of comfort or happiness has never appealed to me; a system of ethics built on this basis would be sufficient only for a herd of cattle.

He who has not looked on Sorrow will never see Joy.

Nothing gives me quite so much joy as when people tell me they've had their pets spayed or neutered.

Being a mum has made me a lot more responsible, it's not just me anymore. But it's also brought me the most joy ever!

There are some people who have the quality of richness and joy in them and they communicate it to everything they touch. It is first of all a physical quality; then it is a quality of the spirit.

If I can delay that [pain] for a moment and bring a little joy. . . and help them to see things a little differently, then I'll be successful.

The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.

We are an arrogant species, full of terrible potential, but we also have a great capacity for love, friendship, generosity, kindness, faith, hope, and joy.

Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.

We do not live an equal life, but one of contrasts and patchwork; now a little joy, then a sorrow, now a sin, then a generous or brave action.

I wish you all the joy that you can wish.

Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow.

The source of one's joy is also often the source of one's sorrow.

Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.

The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.

Strong hope is a much greater stimulant to life than any single realized joy could be.

Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.

Another fresh new year is here . . . Another year to live! To banish worry, doubt, and fear, To love and laugh and give! This bright new year is given me To live each day with zest . . . To daily grow and try to be My highest and my best! I have the opportunity Once more to right some wrongs, To pray for peace, to plant a tree, And sing more joyful songs!

Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy.

Forbid a man to think for himself or to act for himself and you may add the joy of piracy and the zest of smuggling to his life.

There is no hope of joy except in human relations.

All human joys are swift of wing, For heaven doth so allot it; That when you get an easy thing, You find you haven't got it

Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it; that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one.

This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one.

There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.

Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow

The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.

One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge

The joy of life is variety; the tenderest love requires to be rekindled by intervals of absence.

Sadness, joy, wonder - all feelings come from a place of grounded strength that comes from trust in yourself. We spend so much time trying to control our feelings out of fear that something may happen, that somebody may not love us, or walk away or die. It's only when you stop living in that fear of what other people might do to you or how they will react, only then are you free to be alive.

Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful molder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State- and church-begotten weed, marriage?

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.