Joy Quotes

I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.

Sure, I get the blues. But what I try to do, is apply joy to the blues, you know? I don't know if it's a technique, or just being bent that way, being raised by the folks I was raised by.

But I think there's a genuine joy, too, a sense that no matter what, even if my stomach's growling, I'm going to dance. That's what I want to leave people with at the end of the play. After all this, people still know how to live.

People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.

Starting in the mid-'80s, I played in a band called Meat Joy, and we made our own record, toured.

True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.

The joy of winning is not as dramatic as the losses were, because I expected us to win.

Death is an endless night so awful to contemplate that it can make us love life and value it with such passion that it may be the ultimate cause of all joy and all art.

Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.

Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy.

The joy of songwriting only gets messed up if you are trying to follow up a big success, or you are trying to create a hit single, or if you have conscious thoughts of a particular outcome for the music.

Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.

There is nothing greater than the joy of composing something oneself and then listening to it.

The real joy is in constructing a sentence. But I see myself as an actor first because writing is what you do when you are ready and acting is what you do when someone else is ready.

But by reading them again and again finally I was able to grasp the essential part. What emotion, enthusiasm, enlightenment and confidence they communicated to me! I wept for joy.

I don't quite jump for joy, but I am awfully glad to see him.

Beauty is whatever gives joy.

Sing the songs of joy to the Lord, serve the Name of the Lord, and become the servant of His servants.

The joy of viewing land, the hope of in a few days ranging through the long wished-for spot and the pleasure of again resuming my wonted employment may be readily calculated.

Michael has a connection with children, just like Mickey Mouse does, and he brings happiness to them, and joy.

If we could only snap the fetters of the body that bind the feet of the soul, we shall experience a great joy. Then we shall not be miserable because of the body's sufferings. We shall become free.

When Kate was born, she was born into a world of joy and happiness and confidence. The difference between the children is night and day. She's happy, she's thriving, she's full of self-confidence. I tell her she's beautiful every day before I send her off to school.

It's always such a joy that you wake up in the morning and there's work to do.

Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You can't put on make-up, or dress yourself, or do you hair with any sort of fun or joy if you're doing it from a position of correction.

I'm not complaining about doing 20-hour days. It's a joy to be able to work on yet another film.

I am one of the new characters in the brand new series of 'Postman Pat.' It has been a joy to do.

When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.

With eye upraised his master's looks to scan, The joy, the solace, and the aid of man; The rich man's guardian, and the poor man's friend, The only creature faithful to the end.

I grow plants for many reasons: to please my eye or to please my soul, to challenge the elements or to challenge my patience, for novelty or for nostalgia, but mostly for the joy in seeing them grow.

To the scientist there is the joy in pursuing truth which nearly counteracts the depressing revelations of truth.