Joy Quotes - page 2

The only joy in the world is to begin. (Cesare Pavese)
People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.
Iris Murdoch
How good is man's life, the mere living! How fit to employ all the heart and the soul and the senses forever in joy!
Robert Browning
Color is my daylong obsession, joy, and torment.
Claude Monet
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
Nhat Hanh
Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.
Marianne Williamson
Only by living at the edge of death can you understand the indescribable joy of life.
James Clavell
Such is human psychology that if we don't express our joy, we soon cease to feel it.
Lin Yutang
A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty.
David Hume
As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.
Helen Keller
We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world. (Helen Keller)
He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sun rise.
William Blake
Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.
Anatole France
The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic, or intellectual, forms a bridge between the sharers which can be the basis for understanding much of what is not shared between them, and lessens the threat of their difference.
Audre Lorde
The deeper sorrow carves into your being the more joy you can contain.
Kahlil Gibran
Love is happiness, but only when you believe it will last forever. Even though every time it turns out to be a lie, it's only faith that gives love its strength and its joy.
Sergei Lukyanenko
Children love and want to be loved and they very much prefer the joy of accomplishment to the triumph of hateful failure. Do not mistake a child for his symptom.
Erik Erikson
Love, joy, and peace cannot flourish until you have freed yourself from mind dominance.
Eckhart Tolle
It is a fine seasoning for joy to think of those we love.
Molière
Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
Leo Tolstoy
The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods. (Elbert Hubbard)
Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.
Winston Churchill
Commissions suit me. They set limits. Jean Marais dared me to write play in which he would not speak in the first act, would weep for joy in the second and in the last would fall backward down a flight of stairs.
Jean Cocteau
Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.
Eleanor Roosevelt