Joy Quotes

The game of basketball has been everything to me. My place of refuge, place I've always gone where I needed comfort and peace. It's been the site of intense pain and the most intense feelings of joy and satisfaction. It's a relationship that has evolved over time, given me the greatest respect and love for the game.

The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just recently fallen in love is undisguisable.

Discovering the 'impossible' ending to a new book makes me sick with joy and relief.

So, to really execute design in its highest form and making people feel joy, that's a great reward.

I love being on stage or in front of the camera. My work brings me a lot of joy. It helps me figure out who I am. I'm really lucky that I get to make a living at acting.

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.

The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow; there is no humor in Heaven.

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.

Don't look for obscure formulas or mystery in my work. It is pure joy that I offer you. Look at my sculptures until you see them. Those closest to God have seen them.

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.

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.