Joy Quotes - page 6

When I think about my new CD, the word 'joy' comes to mind. I sincerely hope that each listener will feel the earth, spirit, and aggressive creativity emanating from this album. (George Duke)
To have joy one must share it. Happiness was born a twin. View quote
Lord Byron
The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again. View quote
Charles Dickens
Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies. View quote
Erich Fromm
When I'm on stage, I'm trying to do one thing: bring people joy. Just like church does. People don't go to church to find trouble, they go there to lose it. View quote
James Brown
Even his griefs are a joy long after to one that remembers all that he wrought and endured. View quote
Homer
Silence is the perfectest herald of joy I were but little happy, if I could say how much. View quote
William Shakespeare
Nobody understands another's sorrow, and nobody another's joy. View quote
Franz Schubert
Life without absorbing occupation is hell; joy consists in forgetting life. View quote
Elbert Hubbard
Respect was mingled with surprise, And the stern joy which warriors feel In foemen worthy of their steel. View quote
Walter Scott
A mother's pride, a father's joy. (Walter Scott)
To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind. View quote
Pearl S. Buck
A thing of beauty is a joy forever: Its loveliness increases; it will never Pass into nothingness. View quote
John Keats
The joy of youth is to disobey but the trouble is that there are no longer any orders. View quote
Jean Cocteau
How happy are the pessimists! What joy is theirs when they have proved there is no joy. View quote
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Who promised you that only for joy were you brought to this earth? View quote
Anna Freud
The belief that we can rely on shortcuts to happiness, joy, rapture, comfort, and ecstasy, rather than be entitled to these feelings by the exercise of personal strengths and virtues, leads to legions of people who, in the middle of great wealth, are starving spiritually. View quote
Martin Seligman
And life goes on, which seems kind of strange and cruel when you're watching someone die. But there's a joy and an abundance of everything, like information and laughter and summer weather and so many stories. View quote
Melina Marchetta
And I feel that we in our society should not be held by any such myth; that we should do everything we can to gain a delight and joy in our society with all the available parts of the palette. View quote
Minoru Yamasaki
Man was created for the sole purpose of rejoicing in God and deriving pleasure from the splendor of His Presence; for this is true joy and the greatest pleasure that can be found. View quote
Moshe Chaim Luzzatto
When you're happy you find pure joy in your life. There are no regrets in this state of happiness - and that's a goal worth striving for in all areas of your life. (Suze Orman)
What we [writers] do might be done in solitude and with great desperation, but it tends to produce exactly the opposite. It tends to produce community and in many people hope and joy. View quote
Junot Diaz
I came from a place where there wasn't a lot of joy. View quote
Bernie Mac
None will ever be a true Parisian who has not learned to wear a mask of gaiety over his sorrows and one of sadness, boredom, or indifference over his inward joy. View quote
Gaston Leroux
Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it. View quote
Greg Anderson