Joy Quotes

For me, comedy should have a certain amount of joy in it. It should be about attacking the powerful - the politicians, the Trumps, the blowhards - going after them. We shouldn't be attacking the vulnerable.

My beautiful wife is dead. She meant everything to me. Her laughter, her tears and her joy will remain with me the rest of my life.

It has been an ache and a joy both to look over this big shoulder of mine at all my yesterdays.

Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.

The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let's face it, friends make life a lot more fun.

Because I actually find the next take after they've controlled it a little bit and repressed the laughter is actually a really interesting take, because that's still going on underneath the surface. That struggle to maintain composure becomes part of the joy of the scene.

Nobody understands another's sorrow, and nobody another's joy.

The only nice thing about being imperfect is the joy it brings to others.

And I think a woman should find it a joy to be female because God made both male and female.

Anyway, he and I worked on the script together, and I must say he was a joy to work with. Very enthusiastic.

I guess I don't think there's any reason to feel guilty about having joy in your life, regardless of how bad things are in the world.

Pleasant it is, when over a great sea the winds trouble the waters, to gaze from shore upon another's great tribulation; not because any man's troubles are a delectable joy, but because to perceive you are free of them yourself is pleasant.

Before the reward there must be labor. You plant before you harvest. You sow in tears before you reap joy.

Another night I dreamed I heard heavenly music sounding in my ears, and a flock of sheep was gathering round it. When the music ceased, the sheep leaped for joy, and ran together, shaking their heads; and one shook his head almost off, and seemed to have nothing but ears.

Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.

If I can bring joy into the world, if I can get people to stop thinking about their pain for a moment, or the fact the tomorrow morning they're going to get up and tell their boss off... then I'll be successful.

If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive.

It's a very nice thing to be able to give joy to people.

The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.

One of the reasons I get so much joy out of my own children's childhoods is that I'm having my first childhood myself.

Until you have a son of your own... you will never know the joy, the love beyond feeling that resonates in the heart of a father as he looks upon his son.

I seem to be thinking rationally again in the style that is characteristic of scientists. However, this is not entirely a matter of joy as if someone returned from physical disability to good physical health.

Set me a task in which I can put something of my very self, and it is a task no longer; it is joy; it is art.

Blessed be God that Thou hast filled the soul of Thy servant with joy and peace in believing.

If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if the simplest things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive.

Love begets love. This torment is my joy.

Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures.

Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize.

That's the great paradox of living on this earth, that in the midst of great pain you can have great joy as well. If we didn't have those things we'd just be numb.