Joy Quotes

Well, I don't think everything necessarily that I touch turns to gold, but I think I get great joy out of it regardless of whether it is successful or not.

Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.

Of course watching a particularly exciting game or a wonderful contestant is always a joy.

We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.

Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all - that has been my religion.

Every night is a joy; you get an hour and a half of all these hits. It's a lot of fun.

For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair.

We are both drawn to surreal situations so the writing was a joy.

I'd like to do Harvey again. I did it two years ago with Helen Hayes in New York. It was a joy. I was so glad to do it again because I never thought I did it right the first time.

All my life, I have loved and been inspired by French cinema, and as a studio head it has been my pride and joy to have the ability to bring movies to audiences around the world.

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.

The most astonishing joy is to receive from the muses the gift of a whole lyric.

Learning should be a joy and full of excitement. It is life's greatest adventure; it is an illustrated excursion into the minds of the noble and the learned.

There are, as is known, insects that die in the moment of fertilization. So it is with all joy: life's highest, most splendid moment of enjoyment is accompanied by death.

If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same time, because a dose of joy is a spiritual cure. It transcends all barriers.

I don't really care how I am remembered as long as I bring happiness and joy to people.

Meditation is painful in the beginning but it bestows immortal Bliss and supreme joy in the end.

I love making stuff. There's a joy in having the first molecule of an idea, then testing it in front of audiences at secret shows that people only know about the day before. I videotape those, study them, enjoy being in the character and figuring out the movie.

The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.

I'm trying to stay as calm as possible and focus one day at a time, but when reality sets in, I feel everything: anxiety, excitement, nerves, pressure and joy.

You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.

Whoever loves above all the approach of love will never know the joy of attaining it.

Shared joy is increased, shared pain is lessened.

It's an ongoing joy being a dad.

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.

To not sing with an orchestra, to not be able to communicate through my voice, which I've done all my life, and not to be able to phrase lyrics and give people that kind of joy, I think I would be totally devastated.

What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they've taken away?

Joy, has no cost.

The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy.