Joy Quotes - page 98

Life is life, and one has experiences that are painful and some that are very pleasant, and one has reward and sacrifice and more reward and disappointment and joy and happiness, and it's always going to be the same. (Mel Gibson)
When the baptism of the penguins was known in Paradise, it caused neither joy nor sorrow, but an extreme surprise. View quote
Anatole France
Through their kisses and caresses they experienced a joy and wonder the equal of which has never been known or heard of. But I shall be silent...; for the rarest and most delectable pleasures are those which are hinted at, but never told. View quote
Chrétien de Troyes
Keep on knocking 'til the joy inside opens a window look to see who's there. View quote
Rumi
I'm filled with a new joy mixed with old grief. View quote
Sandra Cisneros
God is not accustomed to refusing a good gift to those who ask for one. Since he is good, and especially to those who are faithful to him, let us hold fast to him with all our soul, our heart, our strength, and so enjoy his light and see his glory and possess the grace of supernatural joy. View quote
Ambrose
Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past. View quote
Nikolai Gogol
Let us not believe that it is enough to read without unction, to speculate without devotion, to investigate without wonder, to observe without joy, to act without godly zeal, to know without love, to understand without humility, to strive without divine grace, or to reflect as a mirror without divinely inspired wisdom. View quote
Bonaventure
Part of the joy of music is listening to lots of different kinds of music and learning from it. Specifically for me, I like writing songs that move me, and what moves me are beautiful songs on the piano or the guitar and really, really heavy music. View quote
Ryan Adams
Collaboration has become really integral to my process. I play music so that I can spend time with my friends and communicate in that way. I experience so much joy in that process, because, you know, it's those times of getting together and playing music and all that comes with it that are the best for me. View quote
Ryan Adams
I confess, for my part, that it greatly delights me. I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing. Does it exalt dunderheads, cowards, trimmers, frauds, cads? Then the pain of seeing them go up is balanced and obliterated by the joy of seeing them come down. (H. L. Mencken)
For whoso dies for Christ, he is conqueror and is delivered from all misery and attains the eternal joy to which may it please our Saviour to bring us all. View quote
Jan Hus
Some poets still write about the hair and eyes and body of a beloved and depict scenes of joy when lovers meet to drink and dance and be merry. But that is not the kind of poetry that the Islamic movement, grown on the concept of jihad and martyrdom, wants. View quote
Amir Taheri
Be generous to the poor orphans and those in need. The man to whom our Lord has been liberal ought not to be stingy. We shall one day find in Heaven as much rest and joy as we ourselves have dispensed in this life. View quote
Ignatius of Loyola
Forsythia is pure joy. There is not an ounce, not a glimmer of sadness or even knowledge in forsythia. Pure, undiluted, untouched joy. View quote
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
To possess, is past the instant We achieve the Joy -- Immortality contented Were Anomaly. View quote
Emily Dickinson
'Tis so much joy 'Tis so much joy If I should fail, what poverty And yet, as poor as I Have ventured all upon a throw Have gained Yes Hesitated so this side the victory. View quote
Emily Dickinson
The joy of being a consumer is that it doesn't require thought, responsibility, self-awareness or shame: All you have to do is obey the first urge that gurgles up from your stomach. And then obey the next. And the next. And the next. View quote
Matt Taibbi
This work is a torture on the rump but a joy to the heart. View quote
Eduardo Galeano
Don't waste your life, Tom." "I think I already have, father." "You're just young. It seems like that when you're young. Life's nothing but joy or misery when you're young. View quote
Bernard Cornwell
Hell is wherever Love is not, and Heaven Is Love's location. No dogmatic creed, No austere faith based on ignoble fear Can lead thee into realms of joy and peace. Unless the humblest creatures on the earth Are bettered by thy loving sympathy Think not to find a Paradise beyond. (Ella Wheeler Wilcox)
And that's how it is in America. We look to our communities, our faiths, our families for our joy, our support, in good times and bad. It is both how we live our lives and why we live our lives. View quote
Mitt Romney
Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how; Everything is happy now, Everything is upward striving. View quote
James Russell Lowell
When I behold the skylark move in perfect joy towards its love the sun, when I behold the skylark, growing drunk with joy, forget the use of wings, so that it topples from the height of heavens, I envy the bird's fate. View quote
Bernart de Ventadorn
Every step, every effort, every test, every fall and every recovery has a sense within God's design for salvation, as He wants life – not death – and joy – not pain – for His people. View quote
Pope Francis