Joy Quotes

Pilots take no special joy in walking. Pilots like flying.

And that's how it is in America. We look to our communities, our faiths, our families for our joy, our support, in good times and bad. It is both how we live our lives and why we live our lives.

A lot of my joy this year has been to give away awards to young people, no matter of race, creed or color, because they were a terrific violinist or a terrific dancer.

A lot of more modern films seem to just be out for violence or sex or what have you, without relating it to what's going within human beings. But every now and then one comes along that does that, and it's a joy.

When you get pure joy out of 'being' rather than 'doing' or 'seeing,' that's when you realize how big and unexplainable some things are and being a dad is one of those very few things.

There are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind them when they go.

When we finally came to start work on this, the joy was it was only Joel and I, we didn't have to answer to anybody, and we didn't have to submit a screen play or anything like that. We just wrote it and then made it.

When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

I've always associated the moment of writing with a moment of lift, of joy, of unexpected reward.

Believe me, I understand the need for easy and speedy. After a 12-hour day of shooting 'Chopped,' say, I'm talking stir-fry, spaghetti, heck, peanut-butter sandwiches. But that's not about the joy of food. That's survival.

The joy of working at something to find out what it means to me is what I grew up with.

Being a mum has made me a lot more responsible, it's not just me anymore. But it's also brought me the most joy ever!

If I have known much trouble in my youth, I have also known much joy.

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.

We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone - but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.

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.

There are some people who have the quality of richness and joy in them and they communicate it to everything they touch. It is first of all a physical quality; then it is a quality of the spirit.

Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too.

I have drunken deep of joy, And I will taste no other wine tonight.