Joy Quotes

Thy love is singular when all thy delight is in Jesus Christ and in no other thing finds joy and comfort.

No one is drawn to writing about being happy or feelings of joy.

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

I have no name: I am but two days old. What shall I call thee? I happy am, Joy is my name. Sweet joy befall thee!

A good newspaper is never nearly good enough but a lousy newspaper is a joy forever.

To love the one who loves you, To admire the one who admires you, In a word, to be the idol of one's idol, Is exceeding the limit of human joy; It is stealing fire from heaven.

To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy.

Joy is like restless day; but peace divine like quiet night; Lead me, O Lord, till perfect Day shall shine through Peace to Light.

The time to read is any time: no apparatus, no appointment of time and place, is necessary. It is the only art which can be practiced at any hour of the day or night, whenever the time and inclination comes, that is your time for reading; in joy or sorrow, health or illness.

Sometimes it is a great joy just to listen to someone we love talking.

It is a simple but sometimes forgotten truth that the greatest enemy to present joy and high hopes is the cultivation of retrospective bitterness.

I don't have joy in watching myself, whereas, actually, I quite like listening to my own music.

Safin, in his way, is very talented. It is a joy to watch them play; it is tennis of a very high quality.

That was the big lesson for all of us. Everything was going great on paper, but we all became miserable because we were so caught up in the machinery of how you make that happen, it took away the sheer joy.

A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.

So I never spend a lot of time analyzing why people respond to my work. But I think that it's just the joy, a passion for life, that I think has always been in my characters. Beyond that, I'm just grateful for it.

Joy always came after pain.

The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.

Talk of joy: there may be things better than beef stew and baked potatoes and home-made bread - there may be.

The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.

Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.

Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.

Perhaps the day may come when we shall remember these sufferings with joy.

Part of the joy of looking at art is getting in sync in some ways with the decision-making process that the artist used and the record that's embedded in the work.

I only really watch sport. That's where you see real joy. I don't like watching much else on TV, because it's generally either twisted or sad.

Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another.

What matters poverty? What matters anything to him who is enamoured of our art? Does he not carry in himself every joy and every beauty?

But it's often been the case, I've done so many countless small, independent films that really 3.2 people have seen, so you never know. You do it for the joy of the part and not necessarily expect anyone to see the final product.

And remember, it's also very funny, because side by side with grief lies joy.

It is the experiences, the great triumphant joy of living to the fullest extent in which real meaning is found. God it's great to be alive!