Joy Quotes - page 4

This is the true joy in life being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap the being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. (George Bernard Shaw)
Since every man who lives is born to die, And none can boast sincere felicity, With equal mind, what happens, let us bear, Nor joy nor grieve too much for things beyond our care. Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend The worlds an inn, and death the journeys end. View quote
John Dryden
When everything goes wrong, what a joy to test your soul and see if it has endurance and courage! An invisible and all-powerful enemy-some call him God, others the Devil, seem to rush upon us to destroy us; but we are not destroyed. View quote
Nikos Kazantzakis
A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked. View quote
Anaïs Nin
If we want to find happiness, let's stop thinking about gratitude or ingratitude and give for the inner joy of giving. View quote
Dale Carnegie
Sing, riding 's a joy For me I ride. View quote
Robert Browning
Every joy is gain, and gain is gain, however small. View quote
Robert Browning
The ultimate, angels' law, Indulging every instinct of the soul There where law, life, joy, impulse are one thing. View quote
Robert Browning
And e'en while fashion's brightest arts decoy, The heart distrusting asks if this be joy. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy. View quote
Leo Buscaglia
The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy. (Eudora Welty)
Every animal has his or her story, his or her thoughts, daydreams, and interests. All feel joy and love, pain and fear, as we now know beyond any shadow of a doubt. All deserve that the human animal afford them the respect of being cared for with great consideration for those interests or left in peace. View quote
Ingrid Newkirk
Ten long trips around the sun since I last saw that smile, but only joy and thankfulness that on a tiny world in the vastness, for a couple of moments in the immensity of time, we were one. View quote
Ann Druyan
Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it. View quote
Tom Stoppard
Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy. View quote
Joseph Campbell
Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain. View quote
Joseph Campbell
The greatest expression of rebellion is joy. View quote
Joss Whedon
The greatest joy in nature is the absence of man. View quote
Bliss Carman
I would say that the surest measure of a man's or a woman's maturity is the harmony, style, joy, and dignity he creates in his marriage, and the pleasure and inspiration he provides for his spouse. View quote
Benjamin Spock
Under the dominion of the priests our earth became the ascetic planet; a squalid den careering through space, peopled by discontented and arrogant creatures, who were disgusted with life, abhorred their globe as a vale of tears, and who in their envy and hatred of beauty and joy did themselves as much harm as possible. View quote
Georg Brandes
There may be Peace without Joy, and Joy without Peace, but the two combined make Happiness. (John Buchan)
A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live. View quote
Bertrand Russell
Comparison is the thief of joy. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, till the Devil whispered behind the leaves "It's pretty, but is it Art?" View quote
Rudyard Kipling
Life is action, the use of one's powers. As to use them to their height is our joy and duty, so it is the one end that justifies itself. View quote
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.