Joy Quotes

When I look back at those pictures of my mother performing - and listen to her recordings - it makes me sad to think that all of that joy she found in her work came to an end. I wish she hadn't had to make that sacrifice, even if it was for the benefit of my father and siblings and me.

I am a perfectionist but I know how to live life. When I'm working, it's 100%. When I'm with my friends, I put everything away and enjoy life. When I come home to my kids, it's pure joy and everything's worth it. Every time, I really focus 100 percent on one thing. I've learned how to juggle my life and I feel like now I have the perfect balance.

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.

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.

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

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.

I know that. I'm having a ball. I'm not slap happy. I'm just filled up with joy and with peace and with all kinds of things that have eluded me for quite a few years. And they're back and they're thriving.

Life is a tragedy full of joy.

If you live for any joy on earth, you may be forsaken; but, oh, live for Jesus, and he will never forsake you!

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

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

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.