Joy Quotes

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.

Where do I begin? I loved working with Kate Hepburn, which was one of the highlights of my life; Working with Richard Burton in Beckett was another great joy.

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.

I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own.

The joy about the recording is that you are your own boss. You don't have a director telling you how to do it.

I've been through some dark times but I've experienced joy too. Now that joy can't be suppressed.

Peace was declared, but not all of us were drunk with joy or stricken blind.

Your intuition will tell you where you need to go; it will connect you with people you should meet; it will guide you toward work that is meaningful for you - work that brings you joy, work that feels right for you.

When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. 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.

Making the City Of Joy gave me the best political education of my life. It became a wrestling match between an Englishman who had gradually ceased to be a Marxist, and a culture that was becoming more Marxist by the day.

The joy I get from winning a major championship doesn't even compare to the feeling I get when a kid writes a letter saying: 'Thank you so much. You have changed my life.'

But paying is part of the game of life: it is the joy of buying that we crave.

Do not be afraid that joy will make the pain worse; it is needed like the air we breathe.

So we strive for perfection in the areas in which we can control, and that isn't necessarily what provides contentment and joy for ourselves and, more importantly, for our children.

Even if some days I feel like I'm ready to fall apart, I am ultimately happier than I've ever been. My family gives me more joy than I thought possible, and my career fulfills me tremendously. All in all, I feel like am in the exact place I am supposed to be in, doing exactly what I am supposed to be doing.

I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.

I started thinking about joy. Everything in our society is so purposeful. Let's bring joy back to the experience.

Then there is a still higher type of courage - the courage to brave pain, to live with it, to never let others know of it and to still find joy in life; to wake up in the morning with an enthusiasm for the day ahead.

I really feel like the gift is also the curse. It's always half-and-half. Whatever brings you the most joy will also probably bring you the most pain. Always a price to pay.

When the doctors came they said she had died of heart disease - of joy that kills.

A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.

A lot of people put all that stuff on a pedestal, and they won't touch it. But I don't think that's the reason they did that. I think they played that stuff out of pure joy.

The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.

It is hard to describe the thrill of creative joy which the artist feels when the conviction seizes her that at last she has caught the very soul of the character she wishes to portray, in the music and action which reveal it.

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.

The striking thing about the Precious Blood is the bond it establishes between love and suffering in our experience, a bond that has become so close that we have come to think of suffering accepted with joy as the most authentic sign of love with any depth at all.