Joy Quotes

Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow.

The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.

Half the joy of life is in little things taken on the run... but let us keep our hearts young and our eyes open that nothing worth our while shall escape us.

Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind.

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

That's what music has always been to me: a feel. I've listened to the Stones many times and it still makes me have that feeling of joy every time. They are still around and put on a really exciting show. We also give it 120 percent.

Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.

Whatever I do is done out of sheer joy; I drop my fruits like a ripe tree. What the general reader or the critic makes of them is not my concern.

To make my brothers and my sister laugh was the greatest joy to me in my life. I like people who can make fun of themselves a lot.

Though I was a mother at 21, being a grandmother makes the whole thing absolutely normal and gorgeous. The relief, the joy of being a grandmother is wonderful.

There is a joy in sorrow which none but a mourner can know.

I can tell you, dearest friend, that if it became known how much friendship, love and a world of human and spiritual references I have smuggled into these three movements, the adherents of programme music - should there be any left - would go mad with joy.

Even when they have nothing, the Irish emit a kind of happiness, a joy.

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

I believe in joy, but I believe in the flip-side, agony.

I do what I do because of Walt Disney - his films and his theme park and his characters and his joy in entertaining.

Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home... it's your responsibility to love it, or change it.

Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness - great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.

The joy that isn't shared dies young.

We ourselves can die with comfort and even with joy if we know that death is but a passport to blessedness, that this intellect, freed from all material chains, shall rise and shine.

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

It's a dream come true, and with this music, with this Rossini, it's unbelievable how to express the joy and express the joy of the situation and the joy to play this music, to sing this music, it's really fantastic.

The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations, and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander, to do.

I suppose that Heartland, Unknown Soldier and Pride and Joy represent not a quieter side but more of a serious side to my work, something I've been getting into recently.

During the 80s and 90s, we all became consumed with ourselves. In the 21st century, we've come back to simpler times. People are struggling economically and this has forced them to scale back the material aspects of their lives and realise the beauty of finding the simple joy in being with the people we love.

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.

This joy of discovery is real, and it is one of our rewards. So too is the approval of our work by our peers.

Performance art is about joy, about making something that's so full of kind of a wild joy that you really can't put into words.

What a joy it is to dance and sing!

My baby is the joy in my life.