Joy Quotes - page 15

Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams. (Hosea Ballou)
At the center of the religious life is a peculiar kind of joy, the prospect of a happy ending that blossoms from necessarily painful ordeals, the promise of human difficulties embraced and overcome. View quote
Huston Smith
All the things that truly matter, beauty, love, creativity, joy and inner peace arise from beyond the mind. View quote
Eckhart Tolle
Pleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within. View quote
Eckhart Tolle
Create all the happiness you are able to create: remove all the misery you are able to remove. Every day will allow you to add something to the pleasure of others, or to diminish something of their pains. And for every grain of enjoyment you sow in the bosom of another, you shall find a harvest in your own bosom; while every sorrow which you pluck out from the thoughts and feelings of a fellow creature shall be replaced by beautiful peace and joy in the sanctuary of your soul. View quote
Jeremy Bentham
I ain't a killer, but don't push me Revenge is like the sweetest joy next to gettin' pussy. View quote
Tupac Shakur
What is it that is done to our children that their puberty should deform them? They have the joy of movement; they have an enterprising curiosity; they are ready for sensible self-denial; they dream ahead, and they have a faithful memory, and, above all, great compassion. [...] The well-meaning educator who flatters and humours the young not only does a disservice to the community, but also damages the individual by depriving him of the opportunities of self-discovery. View quote
Kurt Hahn
The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy. View quote
Jim Rohn
Beauty, the splendour of truth, is a gracious presence when the imagination contemplates intensely the truth of its own being or the visible world, and the spirit which proceeds out of truth and beauty is the holy spirit of joy. These are realities and these alone give and sustain life. View quote
James Joyce
I drink to the general joy of the whole table. - from Macbeth. View quote
William Shakespeare
Life, when fully lived under a variety of cultural conditions, can be euphoric and optimistic; it can be a joy to experience and a wonder to behold. (Paul Kurtz)
O Eternal God, now may it please you to burn in love so that we become the limbs fashioned in the love you felt when you begot your Son at the first dawn before all creation. And consider this need which falls upon us, take it from us for the sake of your Son, and lead us to the joy of your salvation. View quote
Hildegard of Bingen
Here's what I'm going to have to say to all of you. If some of you have demons in your head who talk to you in profanity or whatever, don't let your demon shoot down your rock music, don't let your demon keep you off the joy bus. So like I say, Rock music pays off. View quote
Wesley Willis
Love wakes men, once a lifetime each; They lift their heavy lids, and look; And, lo, what one sweet page can teach, They read with joy, then shut the book. View quote
Coventry Patmore
I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus. View quote
Malcolm Muggeridge
I remember, I remember The fir-trees dark and high; I used to think their slender tops Were close against the sky: It was a childish ignorance, But now 'tis little joy To know I'm farther off from Heaven Than when I was a boy. View quote
Thomas Hood
What joy have I in June's return? My feet are parched-my eyeballs burn, I scent no flowery gust; But faint the flagging Zephyr springs, With dry Macadam on its wings, And turns me "dust to dust." View quote
Thomas Hood
No matter what all your teeth and wet fingers anticipated, there was no accounting for the way that simple joy could shake you. View quote
Toni Morrison
I was born, I think, with the desire to make beautiful books - brave books that would preserve the glories of the Dream untarnished, and would re-create them for battered people, and re-awaken joy and magnanimity. View quote
James Branch Cabell
When we rejoice in our fulness, then we can part with our fruits with joy. View quote
Rabindranath Tagore
These joys were so trifling as to be as imperceptible as grains of gold among the sand, and in moments of depression she saw nothing but the sand; yet there were brighter moments when she felt nothing but joy, saw nothing but the gold. (Leo Tolstoy)
If there was an abundance of misery in the world, there was also sufficient joy, yes - as long as one knew where to look for it. View quote
Rohinton Mistry
Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement; and if a story is told of more than common interest, ennui is sure to have its joy in adding embellishments. If hours did not hang heavy, what would become of scandal? View quote
George Bancroft
Let us each of us now embrace with solemn duty, and awesome joy, what is our lasting birthright. With common effort and common purpose, with passion and dedication, let us answer the call of history and carry into an uncertain future that precious light of freedom. View quote
Barack Obama
The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding. View quote
Leonardo da Vinci