Joy Quotes - page 21

Justice Ginsburg is a very competent justice, and it is a joy to have her on the court, but particularly for me it is a pleasure to have a second woman on the court. (Sandra Day O'Connor)
I find, in being black, a thing of beauty: a joy; a strength; a secret cup of gladness. View quote
Ossie Davis
Where do I begin? I loved working with Kate Hepburn, which was one of the highlights of my life; Working with Richard Burton in Beckett was another great joy. View quote
Peter O'Toole
Joy, with peace, is the sister of charity. Serve the Lord with laughter. View quote
Padre Pio
It is a simple but sometimes forgotten truth that the greatest enemy to present joy and high hopes is the cultivation of retrospective bitterness. View quote
Robert Menzies
Eating is not merely a material pleasure. Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill and happy companionship. It is of great importance to the morale. View quote
Elsa Schiaparelli
The root of joy is gratefulness... It is not joy that makes us grateful; it is gratitude that makes us joyful. View quote
David Steindl-Rast
Style is joyful if you allow yourself to have joy. View quote
Stacy London
When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself. View quote
Tecumseh
People who put my paintings on their walls are putting their values on their walls: faith, family, home, a simpler way of living, the beauty of nature, quiet, tranquillity, peace, joy, hope. They beckon you into this world that provides an alternative to your nightly news broadcast. View quote
Thomas Kinkade
Balance, peace, and joy are the fruit of a successful life. It starts with recognizing your talents and finding ways to serve others by using them. (Thomas Kinkade)
I think how the world is still somehow beautiful even when I feel no joy at being alive within it. View quote
Loung Ung
I'm completely in love with the world but also terrified of it. It creates some overwhelming feelings. Wanting to battle out that joy and fear is part of my music. View quote
Florence Welch
I have a two-year-old who just turned three, and my four-year-old just turned five. I have the same irrational feelings taking them to pre-school. It's this charged combination of stress and joy and anxiety and excitement. When they're away, you've got a sudden loss of purpose and this ever-present fear about the kid's welfare. The departure of our children from our nest is not an easy thing. View quote
Vera Farmiga
If atheism solved all human woe, then the Soviet Union would have been an empire of joy and dancing bunnies instead of the land of corpses. View quote
John C. Wright
At present, I am mainly observing the physical motion of mountains, water, trees and flowers. One is everywhere reminded of similar movements in the human body, of similar impulses of joy and suffering in plants. View quote
Egon Schiele
Restlessness and impatience change nothing except our peace and joy. Peace does not dwell in outward things, but in the heart prepared to wait trustfully and quietly on Him who has all things safely in His hands. View quote
Elisabeth Elliot
Christ is sufficient. We do not need "support groups" for each and every separate tribulation. The most widely divergent sorrows may all be taken to the foot of the same old rugged cross and find there cleansing, peace, and joy. View quote
Elisabeth Elliot
I suppose that Heartland, Unknown Soldier and Pride and Joy represent not a quieter side but more of a serious side to my work, something I've been getting into recently. View quote
Garth Ennis
Life will bring you pain all by itself. Your responsibility is to create joy. View quote
Milton H. Erickson
Just by gazing upon her face... No matter how weary you are, you will feel happy, deep inside your heart, you will feel a warmth This is a "piece of joy" This is all the happiness you need. Normally, we call this "love"... (Yoshiki Nakamura)
I am an optimist. I think, as bad as life sometimes gets, there is so much joy and so much good stuff, that there is a balance. View quote
Amanda Holden
Comparison is a thug that robs your joy. But its even more than that - Comparison makes you a thug who beats down somebody - or your soul. View quote
Ann Voskamp
I want to express myself to feel that what I feel is real. My joy, my pain, my anger. View quote
Annabella Sciorra
The blessing of my mother is that she is so interested, she is so bright, she never complains - the joy of the Lord just bubbles out of her. Anybody who's in her presence is blessed to be there. View quote
Anne Graham Lotz