Joy Quotes - page 10

Interviewer: "So Jeff, what are your main musical influences?" Jeff (after a long pause): "Love, anger, depression, joy and dreams. ...And Zeppelin. Totally." (Jeff Buckley)
it is this broken road with pitfalls and sharp turns and unexpected traverses that has brought me joy and adventure. View quote
Alice Walker
Resistance is the secret of joy! View quote
Alice Walker
The holy Cross goes forward; it brings joy and consolation to every quarter where Christians live; and these God-fearing people, elated, stand in their doorways and greet it reverently, the strength, the salvation of the universe, the Cross. View quote
Constantine P. Cavafy
Don't lie to me! Don't seem so normal when I know you have cut yourself off from me in your heart! If you can put on our affectionate closeness like a mask, then I'll never be able to take joy in it again. View quote
Orson Scott Card
Love should bring joy, it should grant a person peace, but here and not, it was bringing only pain. View quote
Nicholas Sparks
Evangelion (that we call the gospel) is a Greek word and signifieth good, merry, glad and joyful tidings, that maketh a man's heart glad and maketh him sing, dance, and leap for joy. View quote
William Tyndale
I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by which I cannot live in, make love to, possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy. View quote
Anaïs Nin
Love is the axis and breath of my life. The art I produce is a byproduct, an excrescence of love, the song I sing, the joy which must explode, the overabundance - that is all! View quote
Anaïs Nin
For you and for me the highest moment, the keenest joy, is not when our minds dominate but when we lose our minds... View quote
Anaïs Nin
You may think life is sweet now, but when death is a heartbeat away then life becomes unbearably desirable. And when you survive, everything you do will be enhanced and filled with greater joy: the sunlight, the breeze, a good wine, a woman's lips, a child's laughter. (David Gemmell)
Joy, thou spark from Heav'n immortal, Daughter of Elysium! Drunk with fire, toward Heaven advancing Goddess, to thy shrine we come. Thy sweet magic brings together What stern Custom spreads afar; All men become brothers Where thy happy wing-beats are. View quote
Friedrich Schiller
Pain is short, and joy is eternal. View quote
Friedrich Schiller
Joy, in Nature's wide dominion, Mightiest cause of all is found; And 'tis joy that moves the pinion, When the wheel of time goes round. View quote
Friedrich Schiller
I do it for the joy it brings, cause I'm a joyful girl. 'Cause the world owes us nothing, we owe each other the world. View quote
Ani DiFranco
For life, with all it yields of joy and woe, And hope and fear (believe the aged friend), Is just our chance o' the prize of learning love, How love might be, hath been indeed, and is. View quote
Robert Browning
Laughter is a strange response. I mean, what is it? It's a spasm of some kind! Is that always joy? It's very often discomfort. It's some sort of explosive reaction. It's very complex. View quote
Madeline Kahn
I think that peace is, in many ways, a precondition of joy. View quote
Yo-Yo Ma
It is because I had so much joy that I came to have so much hate. View quote
Amy Tan
Anger kills both laughter and joy; What greater foe is there than anger? View quote
Thiruvalluvar
We have become accustomed to living our life with joy amidst pain and challenges. (Dana Reeve)
Hope is like a harebell, trembling from its birth, Love is like a rose, the joy of all the earth, Faith is like a lily, lifted high and white, Love is like a lovely rose, the world's delight. Harebells and sweet lilies show a thornless growth, But the rose with all its thorns excels them both. View quote
Christina Rossetti
The trick is not how much pain you feel - but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain. Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses. View quote
Erica Jong
A garden must combine the poetic and the mysterious with a feeling of serenity and joy. View quote
Luis Barragán
Wherever there is greater joy, there is the direction of everyone's activity, because the innermost of everyone is really the lighted lamp of Total Knowledge, total organising power of knowledge, it's all bliss, it's not necessary for the people to suffer. View quote
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi