Joy Quotes - page 5

I am not finding pregnancy much of a joy. I am afraid of childbirth, but I am afraid I can't find a way of avoiding it. (Brigitte Bardot)
Be content with who you are and where you are, and do whatever you can do to bring to others such contentment, and joy, and understanding that you have managed to find yourself. View quote
Alexander McCall Smith
The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse. View quote
Helen Keller
Land of Heart's Desire Where beauty has no ebb, decay no flood, But joy is wisdom, time an endless song. View quote
William Butler Yeats
O Rose, thou art sick The invisible worm, That flies in the night, In the howling storm, Has found out thy bed Of crimson joy, And his dark secret love Does thy life destroy. View quote
William Blake
The Angel that presided oer my birth Said Little creature, formd of joy and mirth, Go, love without the help of anything on earth. View quote
William Blake
And I made a rural pen, And I stained the water clear, And I wrote my happy songs Every Child may joy to hear. View quote
William Blake
The most profound joy has more of gravity than of gaiety in it. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough. View quote
Emily Dickinson
Learning should be a joy and full of excitement. It is life's greatest adventure; it is an illustrated excursion into the minds of the noble and the learned. View quote
Taylor Caldwell
With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things. (William Wordsworth)
I thought of Chatterton, the marvellous boy, The sleepless soul that perished in his pride Of him who walked in glory and in joy, Following his plough, along the mountain-side. By our own spirits we are deified We Poets in our youth begin in gladness, But thereof come in the end despondency and madness. View quote
William Wordsworth
She gave me eyes, she gave me ears And humble cares, and delicate fears A heart, the fountain of sweet tears And love and thought and joy. View quote
William Wordsworth
And often, glad no more, We wear a face of joy because We have been glad of yore. View quote
William Wordsworth
A famous man is Robin Hood, The English ballad-singer's joy. View quote
William Wordsworth
Meditation is painful in the beginning but it bestows immortal Bliss and supreme joy in the end. View quote
Swami Sivananda
I like to think a thought and then I like to follow it, like a little seed, for a long time and see where that growth leads me. Sometimes it leads me to an entirely different place from where it started and that gives me joy. View quote
Yiyun Li
Joy is like restless day; but peace divine like quiet night; Lead me, O Lord, till perfect Day shall shine through Peace to Light. View quote
Adelaide Anne Procter
Pleasant it is, when over a great sea the winds trouble the waters, to gaze from shore upon another's great tribulation; not because any man's troubles are a delectable joy, but because to perceive you are free of them yourself is pleasant. View quote
Lucretius
You shall have joy, or you shall have power, said God you shall not have both. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain. (Euripides)
Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could. View quote
Barbara De Angelis
The body is a sacred garment: it is what you enter life in and what you depart life with, and it should be treated with honour, and with joy and with fear as well. But always, though, with blessing. View quote
Martha Graham
Death is an endless night so awful to contemplate that it can make us love life and value it with such passion that it may be the ultimate cause of all joy and all art. View quote
Paul Theroux
Negative thinking patterns can be immensely deceptive and persuasive, and change is rarely easy. But with patience and persistence, I believe that nearly all individuals suffering from depression can improve and experience a sense of joy and self-esteem once again. View quote
David D. Burns