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Best Quotes About Joy (Top 100)
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To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket- safe, dark, motionless, airless—it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable.
C.S. Lewis -
When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
Kahlil Gibran -
The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
I have drunken deep of joy, And I will taste no other wine tonight.
Percy Bysshe Shelley -
The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.
Charles Dickens -
The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
Leonardo da Vinci -
Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.
Marcus Tullius Cicero -
A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
John Keats -
The more the heart is sated with joy, the more it becomes insatiable.
Gabrielle Roy -
To get the full value of joy you must have someone to share it with
Mark Twain -
The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof.
Richard Bach -
The unendurable is the beginning of the curve of joy.
Djuna Barnes -
Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.
Marianne Williamson -
Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
Joseph Campbell -
The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.
William Blake -
We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.
Helen Keller -
Don't surrender all your joy for an idea you used to have about yourself that isn't true anymore.
Cheryl Strayed -
A thing of beauty is a joy for ever: Its loveliness increases; it will never Pass into nothingness; but still will keep A bower quiet for us, and a sleep Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.
John Keats -
Enjoy life. This is not a dress rehearsal.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.
Rabindranath Tagore -
She was sensible and clever, but eager in everything; her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation.
Jane Austen -
Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.
Og Mandino -
He who kisses joy as it flies by will live in eternity's sunrise.
William Blake -
Every person has the power to make others happy. Some do it simply by entering a room others by leaving the room. Some individuals leave trails of gloom; others, trails of joy. Some leave trails of hate and bitterness; others, trails of love and harmony. Some leave trails of cynicism and pessimism; others trails of faith and optimism. Some leave trails of criticism and resignation; others trails of gratitude and hope. What kind of trails do you leave?
William Arthur Ward -
The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.
Aleister Crowley -
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
Franklin D. Roosevelt -
When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.
Maxim Gorky -
With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.
William Wordsworth -
The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with joy are goodness, beauty, and truth.
Albert Einstein -
Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.
Leo F. Buscaglia -
Everything you do right now ripples outward and affects everyone. Your posture can shine your heart or transmit anxiety. Your breath can radiate love or muddy the room in depression. Your glance can awaken joy. Your words can inspire freedom. Your every act can open hearts and minds.
David Deida -
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
Albert Einstein -
In today's rush we all think too much, seek too much, want too much and forget about the joy of just Being.
Eckhart Tolle -
We spend precious hours fearing the inevitable. It would be wise to use that time adoring our families, cherishing our friends and living our lives.
Maya Angelou -
There are many things in your heart you can never tell to another person. They are you, your private joys and sorrows, and you can never tell them. You cheapen yourself, the inside of yourself, when you tell them.
Greta Garbo -
If you live gladly to make others glad in God, your life will be hard, your risks will be high, and your joy will be full.
John Piper -
Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.
Claude Monet -
When you wish someone joy, you wish them peace, love, prosperity, happiness... all the good things.
Maya Angelou -
You will know your vocation by the joy that it brings you. You will know. You will know when it's right.
Dorothy Day -
I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.
Marlene Dietrich -
A joyful life is an individual creation that cannot be copied from a recipe.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi -
The joy that isn't shared dies young.
Anne Sexton -
There are many kinds of joy, but they all lead to one: the joy to be loved.
Michael Ende -
Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?
William Makepeace Thackeray -
I like money, I love it, I use it wisely, constructively, and judiciously. Money is constantly circulating in my life. I release it with joy, and it returns to me multiplied in a wonderful way. It is good and very good. Money flows to me in avalanches of abundance. I use it for good only, and I am grateful for my good and for the riches of my mind.
Joseph Murphy -
To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.
Pearl S. Buck -
A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.
John Keats -
There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make us rejoice.
John Calvin -
Ten long trips around the sun since I last saw that smile, but only joy and thankfulness that on a tiny world in the vastness, for a couple of moments in the immensity of time, we were one.
Ann Druyan -
Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.
William Blake -
Your desire is your prayer. Picture the fulfillment of your desire now and feel its reality and you will experience the joy of the answered. Dr. Joseph Murphy
Joseph Murphy -
words are like nets - we hope they'll cover what we mean, but we know they can't possibly hold that much joy, or grief, or wonder.
Jodi Picoult -
True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery -
Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
Helen Keller -
Who is the happiest man? He who is alive to the merit of others, and can rejoice in their enjoyment as if it were his own.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.
Eleanor Roosevelt -
There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.
Aeschylus -
The poor man shuddered, overflowed with an angelic joy; he declared in his transport that this would last through life; he said to himself that he really had not suffered enough to deserve such radiant happiness, and he thanked God, in the depths of his soul, for having permitted that he, a miserable man, should be so loved by this innocent being.
Victor Hugo -
The only joy in the world is to begin.
Cesare Pavese -
Joy came always after pain.
Guillaume Apollinaire -
He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sun rise.
William Blake -
Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.
Emily Dickinson -
The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow; there is no humor in Heaven.
Mark Twain -
Cooking is at once child's play and adult joy. And cooking done with care is an act of love.
Craig Claiborne -
There were thousands and thousands of forms of joy in the world, but that all were essentially one and the same, namely, the joy of being able to love.
Michael Ende -
The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.
Eudora Welty -
.....joy runs deeper than despair.
Corrie Ten Boom -
Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.
Karl Barth -
The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.
Richard Bach -
I adore art... when I am alone with my notes, my heart pounds and the tears stream from my eyes, and my emotion and my joys are too much to bear.
Giuseppe Verdi -
To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.
Pearl S. Buck -
Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it.
William Feather -
Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.
Albert Einstein -
For me, the joy of doing it is doodling when I want to. But if I had to do it, I'd lose the joy.
Matthew Ashford -
When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and brings joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.
Jean Shinoda Bolen -
There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
Henry Ford -
A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty.
David Hume -
I am so fond of tea that I could write a whole dissertation on its virtues. It comforts and enlivens without the risks attendant on spirituous liquors. Gentle herb! Let the florid grape yield to thee. Thy soft influence is a more safe inspirer of social joy.
James Boswell -
We have within ourselves Enough to fill the present day with joy, And overspread the future years with hope.
William Wordsworth -
None will ever be a true Parisian who has not learned to wear a mask of gaiety over his sorrows and one of sadness, boredom, or indifference over his inward joy.
Gaston Leroux -
Nothing I've ever done has given me more joys and rewards than being a father to my children.
Bill Cosby -
Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one's identity as a being of worth and dignity.
Rollo May -
Each individual composes the music of his own life. If he injures another, he brings disharmony. When his sphere is disturbed, he is disturbed himself, and there is a discord in the melody of his life. If he can quicken the feeling of another to joy or to gratitude, by that much he adds to his own life; he becomes himself by that much more alive. Whether conscious of it or not, his thought is affected for the better by the joy or gratitude of another, and his power and vitality increase thereby, and the music of his life grows more in harmony.
Hazrat Inayat Khan -
Everything is a battlefield. If you fight with anger, you are part of the problem. If you fight with joy, you're part of the solution.
Carlos Santana -
Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men but from doing something worthwhile.
Wilfred Grenfell -
Eating is not merely a material pleasure. Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill and happy companionship. It is of great importance to the morale.
Elsa Schiaparelli -
No one feels another's grief, no one understands another's joy. People imagine they can reach one another. In reality they only pass each other by.
Franz Schubert -
Just as there are laws of Conservation of Matter and Energy, so there are in fact Laws of Conservation of Pain and Joy. Neither can ever be created or destroyed. But one can be converted into the other.
Spider Robinson -
A sense of humor... is needed armor. Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life.
Hugh Sidey -
Man is made or unmade by himself. In the armory of thought he forges the weapons by which he destroys himself. He also fashions the tools with which he builds for himself heavenly mansions of joy and strength and peace.
James Allen -
Joy is not in things; it is in us.
Richard Wagner -
Our identity is not in our joy, and our identity is not in our suffering. Our identity is in Christ, whether we have joy or are suffering.
Mark Driscoll -
Labor wants pride and joy in doing good work, a sense of making or doing something beautiful or useful - to be treated with dignity and respect as brother and sister.
Thorstein Veblen -
Women lose their lives not knowing they can do something different...I claimed myself and remade my life. Only when I knew I belonged to myself completely did I become capable of giving myself to another, of finding joy in desire, pleasure in our love, power in this body no one else owns.
Dorothy Allison -
Farewell happy fields, Where joy forever dwells: Hail, horrors, hail.
John Milton -
The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive. To him... a touch is a blow, a sound is a noise, a misfortune is a tragedy, a joy is an ecstasy, a friend is a lover, a lover is a god, and failure is death.
Pearl S. Buck -
Suppose I was to tell you that it's just beauty that's calling me, the beauty of the far off and unknown, the mystery and spell which lures me, the need of freedom of great wide spaces, the joy of wandering on and on——in quest of the secret which is hidden over there——beyond the horizon?
Eugene O'Neill -
The joy is that we can take back our bodies, reclaim our health, and restore ourselves to balance. We can take power over what and how we eat. We can rejuvenate and recharge ourselves, bringing healing to the wounds we carry inside us, and bringing to fuller life the wonderful person that each of us can be.
John Robbins -
Base not your joy on the deeds of others. For what has been given can be taken away.
Peter Steele -
Part of the joy of dancing is conversation. Trouble is, some men can't talk and dance at the same time.
Ginger Rogers
Even More Joy Quotes
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Taking joy in living is a woman's best cosmetic.
Rosalind Russell -
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.
Barbara de Angelis -
I've learned what "ツ歪lassical' means. It means something that sings and dances through sheer joy of existence.
Gustav Holst -
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.
Thomas a Kempis -
Your pain is a school unto itself–– and your joy a lovely temple.
Aberjhani -
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.
Kevyn Aucoin -
Only by living at the edge of death can you understand the indescribable joy of life - Shogun.
James Clavell -
If things don't come easy, there is no premium on effort. There should be joy in the chase, zest in the pursuit.
Branch Rickey -
God's gift to his sorrowing creatures is a joy worthy of their destiny.
Johann Sebastian Bach -
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.
Nikos Kazantzakis -
There is no such thing as the pursuit of happiness, but there is the discovery of joy.
Joyce Grenfell -
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.
Audre Lorde -
Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.
Greg Anderson -
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?
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek -
We shall serve for the joy of serving, prosperity shall flow to us and through us in unending streams of plenty.
Charles Fillmore -
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.
Boyd Rice -
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.
Albert Einstein -
What? I bring joy to the world. I am filled with mirth and sunlight. Also, I am Batman.
Warren Ellis -
Of all the joys that lighten suffering earth, what joy is welcomed like a new born child?
Caroline Norton -
As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.
Helen Keller -
Joy is like restless day; but peace divine like quiet night; Lead me, O Lord, till perfect Day shall shine through Peace to Light.
Adelaide Anne Procter -
I don't really care how I am remembered as long as I bring happiness and joy to people.
Eddie Albert -
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.
David Sarnoff -
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.
William Allen White -
Hopefully, I brought people a certain joy. That will be a wonderful legacy.
Julie Andrews -
Without love and laughter there is no joy; live amid love and laughter.
Horace -
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.
Lucille Ball -
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.
Joyce Cary -
The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
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.
Chris Crutcher -
Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.
Carl Sandburg -
Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.
Joseph Campbell -
Some days there won't be a song in your heart. Sing anyway.
Emory Austin -
It is one of the great joys of home ownership to fire a pistol in one's own bedroom
Alfred Jarry -
What a joy it is to dance and sing!
Angela Carter -
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.
John Clare -
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?
George Sand -
If you clean it up, get analytical, all the subtle joy and emotion you felt in the first place goes flying out the window.
Andrew Wyeth -
We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.
Buddha -
Shared joy is increased, shared pain is lessened.
Spider Robinson -
Gratitude helps you to grow and expand; gratitude brings joy and laughter into your life and into the lives of all those around you.
Eileen Caddy -
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.
Gerald Massey -
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)
Stephen Levine -
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.
Erich Fromm -
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.
Benjamin Spock -
We all carry it within us: supreme strength, the fullness of wisdom, unquenchable joy. It is never thwarted, and cannot be destroyed.
Huston Smith -
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.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi -
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.
Carl Hiaasen -
Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
Charles Du Bos -
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
Javan -
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.
Billy Graham -
Our goal should be to achieve joy.
Ana Castillo -
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.
J. Michael Straczynski -
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.
David O. McKay -
So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.
Helen Keller -
If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.
Joseph Wood Krutch -
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.
Jane Roberts -
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.
David Gemmell -
I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own.
Margaret Atwood -
Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing.
William Congreve -
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.
Merle Shain -
It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery -
I'm real excited. I'm so blessed to have so much peace and joy inside. I just can't keep quiet about it.
Brian Welch -
Pain has its own noble joy, when it starts a strong consciousness of life, from a stagnant one.
John Sterling -
How did I come to be an artist ? Endless curiosity, observation, research - and a great amount of joy in the thing
George Grosz -
Joy lies in the fight, in the attempt, in the suffering involved, not in the victory itself
Mahatma Gandhi -
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.
Anais Nin -
In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.
W. H. Auden -
Life is a tragedy full of joy.
Bernard Malamud -
There may be Peace without Joy, and Joy without Peace, but the two combined make Happiness.
John Buchan -
The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.
Pearl S. Buck -
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.
Bernard Meltzer -
Challenge your limitations for the pure joy of challenge.
Chin-Ning Chu -
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.
Charles Simeon -
My color is my joy and not my burden...
Bebe Moore Campbell -
I sing the joy of wandering and the pleasure of the wanderer's death
Guillaume Apollinaire -
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....
Glen Hansard -
A good newspaper is never nearly good enough but a lousy newspaper is a joy forever.
Garrison Keillor -
A cheerful look brings joy to the heart.
William Makepeace Thackeray -
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.
August Strindberg -
I found more joy in sorrow than you could find in joy.
Sara Teasdale -
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.
Richard Wagner -
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.
Jessye Norman -
If I have caused just one person to wipe away a tear of laughter, that's my reward.
Victor Borge -
The most profound joy has more of gravity than of gaiety in it.
Michel de Montaigne -
Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys.
Andre Gide -
The trick is not how much pain you feel - but how much joy you feel
Erica Jong -
Focus on where you are instead of where you wish you were. The joy will follow.
John Bingham -
The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.
Pearl Bailey -
In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing.
Antonio Porchia -
Pain shared is pain lessened; joy shared is joy increased. Thus do we refute entropy.
Spider Robinson -
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."
Jessica Stern -
You increase your joy by increasing the pure joy of others.
Torkom Saraydarian -
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.
Helen Keller -
Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one's liberty.
Henri Frederic Amiel -
The only nice thing about being imperfect is the joy it brings to others.
Doug Larson -
You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy.
John Calvin -
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.
Richard Bach -
We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone - but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.
Walter Anderson -
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.
Margaret Laurence -
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!
Anne Sullivan -
Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life.
Hugh Walpole -
Only when we try to understand one another's suffering can we begin to bring each other joy.
Jim Stovall -
I cannot sleep - great joy is as restless as great sorrow.
Fanny Burney -
Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.
Virginia Woolf -
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.
Elias A. Ford -
The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just recently fallen in love is undisguisable.
John Cheever -
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.
Richard Halliburton -
Search fearlessly for every sin, for out of sin comes joy.
Frank Wedekind -
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.
Ani DiFranco -
Let every hindrance to joy become the soil out of which joy blossoms.
Elizabeth George -
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.
George Bernard Shaw -
Money is a strange thing. It ranks with love as our greatest source of joy, and with death as our greatest source of anxiety.
Joe Moore -
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.
Lawana Blackwell -
He who can conceal his joys, is greater than he who can hide his griefs
Johann Kaspar Lavater -
Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow.
Helen Keller -
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.
Alan Cohen -
Joys too exquisite to last, And yet more exquisite when past.
James Montgomery -
I didn't think Comfort and Joy was going to be a box-office smash.
Bill Forsyth -
Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy
Lao Tzu -
The soul's joy lies in doing.
Percy Bysshe Shelley -
We have become accustomed to living our life with joy amidst pain and challenges.
Dana Reeve -
Our joy now and forever is inextricably tied to our capacity to love.
John H. Groberg -
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.
Thomas Traherne -
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.
Bo Lozoff -
Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided.
Alphonse Karr -
The joy of the mind is the measure of its strength.
Ninon de L'Enclos -
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.
Confucius -
I'm glad I did it, partly because it was worth it, but mostly because I shall never have to do it again.
Mark Twain -
Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.
Kahlil Gibran -
The greatest joy in nature is the absence of man.
Bliss Carman -
Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how.
James Russell Lowell -
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.
Bobby McFerrin -
Laughter can help relieve tension in even the heaviest of matters.
Allen Klein -
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.
May Sarton -
You shall have joy, or you shall have power, said God; you shall not have both.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Oh, the jealousy, the greed is the unraveling. It's the unraveling and it undoes all the joy that could be. .
Joni Mitchell -
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.
Jim Bishop -
The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter.
Alice Meynell -
One joy shatters a hundred griefs
Chinese Proverbs -
When you express your gratitude, you will bring joy to others lives.When others know joy, your life will be filled with happiness.
Arthur Dobrin -
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.
Christian Wiman -
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.)
Charles de Leusse -
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.
Luke Rhinehart -
On with the dance! Let joy be unconfined
Lord Byron -
At Earth's great market where Joy is trafficked in, Buy while thy purse yet swells with golden Youth.
Alan Seeger -
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.
Albert Einstein -
He who has not looked on Sorrow will never see Joy.
Kahlil Gibran -
Nothing gives me quite so much joy as when people tell me they've had their pets spayed or neutered.
Bob Barker -
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!
Nicole Appleton -
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.
Thomas Wolfe -
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.
Bobby McFerrin -
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.
Stendhal -
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.
Dean Koontz -
Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.
Eileen Caddy -
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.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
I wish you all the joy that you can wish.
William Shakespeare -
Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow.
Rene Descartes -
The source of one's joy is also often the source of one's sorrow.
Jessamyn West -
Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.
Anatole France -
The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.
Jim Rohn -
Strong hope is a much greater stimulant to life than any single realized joy could be.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
William Butler Yeats -
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!
William Arthur Ward -
Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.
Euripides -
The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy.
Henry Ward Beecher -
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.
Elbert Hubbard -
There is no hope of joy except in human relations.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery -
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
Eugene Field -
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.
Andre Gide -
This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one.
George Bernard Shaw -
There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.
Kahlil Gibran -
Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow
Swedish Proverb -
The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.
Elbert Hubbard -
One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge
Robert Lynd -
The joy of life is variety; the tenderest love requires to be rekindled by intervals of absence.
Samuel Johnson -
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.
Elisabeth Shue -
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?
Emma Goldman -
Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.
Friedrich Nietzsche