Joy Quotes

Anyway, he and I worked on the script together, and I must say he was a joy to work with. Very enthusiastic.

Every cliche about kids is true; they grow up so quickly, you blink and they're gone, and you have to spend the time with them now. But that's a joy.

I guess I don't think there's any reason to feel guilty about having joy in your life, regardless of how bad things are in the world.

Pleasant it is, when over a great sea the winds trouble the waters, to gaze from shore upon another's great tribulation; not because any man's troubles are a delectable joy, but because to perceive you are free of them yourself is pleasant.

Before the reward there must be labor. You plant before you harvest. You sow in tears before you reap joy.

Another night I dreamed I heard heavenly music sounding in my ears, and a flock of sheep was gathering round it. When the music ceased, the sheep leaped for joy, and ran together, shaking their heads; and one shook his head almost off, and seemed to have nothing but ears.

Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.

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.

Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too.

If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive.

It's a very nice thing to be able to give joy to people.

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

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

One of the reasons I get so much joy out of my own children's childhoods is that I'm having my first childhood myself.

Until you have a son of your own... you will never know the joy, the love beyond feeling that resonates in the heart of a father as he looks upon his son.

I seem to be thinking rationally again in the style that is characteristic of scientists. However, this is not entirely a matter of joy as if someone returned from physical disability to good physical health.

Set me a task in which I can put something of my very self, and it is a task no longer; it is joy; it is art.

Blessed be God that Thou hast filled the soul of Thy servant with joy and peace in believing.

If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if the simplest things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive.

Love begets love. This torment is my joy.

Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures.

Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize.

That's the great paradox of living on this earth, that in the midst of great pain you can have great joy as well. If we didn't have those things we'd just be numb.

The kitchen really is the castle itself. This is where we spend our happiest moments and where we find the joy of being a family.

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

Certainly Dracula did bring a hell of a lot of joy to a hell of a lot of women. And if this erotic quality hadn't come out we'd have been very disappointed.

It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us; in joy we face the storm and defy it.

Ever since I bought and started flying an airplane, it's been almost exclusively for business. I love to fly. It's a great joy to me. But rarely do I use it for any kind of pleasure, other than it is a pleasure to fly.

I've never had a divorce, but I've seen so many of my friends, my sister, my family go through that stuff, so I try to write for the people that can't write about it. I take on their sorrow, so I'm able to kind of express it, or their joy.

The pleasure of jogging and running is rather like that of wearing a fur coat in Texas in August: the true joy comes in being able to take the damn thing off.