Joy Quotes

All my life, I have loved and been inspired by French cinema, and as a studio head it has been my pride and joy to have the ability to bring movies to audiences around the world.

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.

Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.

The most astonishing joy is to receive from the muses the gift of a whole lyric.

Learning should be a joy and full of excitement. It is life's greatest adventure; it is an illustrated excursion into the minds of the noble and the learned.

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

If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same time, because a dose of joy is a spiritual cure. It transcends all barriers.

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

Meditation is painful in the beginning but it bestows immortal Bliss and supreme joy in the end.

I love making stuff. There's a joy in having the first molecule of an idea, then testing it in front of audiences at secret shows that people only know about the day before. I videotape those, study them, enjoy being in the character and figuring out the movie.

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

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

I'm trying to stay as calm as possible and focus one day at a time, but when reality sets in, I feel everything: anxiety, excitement, nerves, pressure and joy.

You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.

Whoever loves above all the approach of love will never know the joy of attaining it.

Shared joy is increased, shared pain is lessened.

It's an ongoing joy being a dad.

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.

To not sing with an orchestra, to not be able to communicate through my voice, which I've done all my life, and not to be able to phrase lyrics and give people that kind of joy, I think I would be totally devastated.

What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they've taken away?

Joy, has no cost.

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

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.

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

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.

It doesn't matter if you have a desperate heart when you have to sing about joy; it doesn't matter if you're scared to death when the lights go on.

All beautiful and noble qualities have been united in me... I shall be the fruit which will leave eternal vitality behind even after its decay. How great must be your joy, therefore, to have given birth to me.

There was a lot of Southern Baptist preachers and some yelling ones but mostly we had a pastor who didn't scream and I found a lot of comfort and joy and peace as a child hearing the Bible.

There is no joy so great as that of reporting that a good play has come to town.

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!