Joy Quotes

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.

Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.

Whatever I do is done out of sheer joy; I drop my fruits like a ripe tree. What the general reader or the critic makes of them is not my concern.

To make my brothers and my sister laugh was the greatest joy to me in my life. I like people who can make fun of themselves a lot.

Though I was a mother at 21, being a grandmother makes the whole thing absolutely normal and gorgeous. The relief, the joy of being a grandmother is wonderful.

There is a joy in sorrow which none but a mourner can know.

I can tell you, dearest friend, that if it became known how much friendship, love and a world of human and spiritual references I have smuggled into these three movements, the adherents of programme music - should there be any left - would go mad with joy.

Even when they have nothing, the Irish emit a kind of happiness, a joy.

You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy.

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.

Within each such social group, a feeling of solidarity prevails, a compelling need to work together and a joy in doing so that represent a high moral value.

I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river.

To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.