Joy Quotes

When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery. (Maxim Gorky)
When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet. View quote
Stanisław Jerzy Lec
Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps. View quote
William Blake
The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow; there is no humor in Heaven. View quote
Mark Twain
Joy is not in things; it is in us. View quote
Richard Wagner
I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself. View quote
Marlene Dietrich
As long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seeds of murder and pain cannot reap the joy of love. View quote
Pythagoras
The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed. View quote
Germaine Greer
Joy is the simplest form of gratitude. View quote
Karl Barth
Pilots take no special joy in walking: pilots like flying. View quote
Neil Armstrong
I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy. (Rabindranath Tagore)
To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with. View quote
Mark Twain
No one feels another's grief, no one understands another's joy. People imagine they can reach one another. In reality they only pass each other by. View quote
Franz Schubert
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort. View quote
Franklin D. Roosevelt
The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it. View quote
Pearl S. Buck
Your desire is your prayer. Picture the fulfillment of your desire now and feel its reality and you will experience the joy of the answered. Dr. Joseph Murphy. View quote
Joseph Murphy
My purpose in performing is to communicate the joy I experience in living. View quote
John Denver
Shared pain is lessened; shared joy, increased - thus do we refute entropy. View quote
Spider Robinson
The conscience of an artist worthy of the name is like an incurable disease which causes him endless torment but occasionally fills him with silent joy... View quote
Georges Rouault
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. View quote
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Ah, life is a gate, a way, a path to Paradise anyway, why not live for fun and joy and love or some sort of girl by a fireside, why not go to your desire and LAUGH... (Jack Kerouac)
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. View quote
Aleister Crowley
I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own. View quote
Margaret Atwood
I loved words. I love to sing them and speak them and even now, I must admit, I have fallen into the joy of writing them. View quote
Anne Rice
Whatever I do is done out of sheer joy; I drop my fruits like a ripe tree. What the general reader or the critic makes of them is not my concern. View quote
Henry Miller