Joy Quotes

I don't quite jump for joy, but I am awfully glad to see him.

The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy.

Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.

I have no name: I am but two days old. What shall I call thee? I happy am, Joy is my name. Sweet joy befall thee!

He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sun rise.

The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.

Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all - that has been my religion.

Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.

When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy, And the dimpling stream runs laughing by; When the air does laugh with our merry wit, And the green hill laughs with the noise of it.

All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.

Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.

You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy.

Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.

Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

The certainty that our football, the football of Spain, is recognised, that's very important to us - perhaps more important than the successes and the joy that you can create. Football hasn't always been appreciated, and luckily our football is appreciated now, at all levels of society.

The joy about the recording is that you are your own boss. You don't have a director telling you how to do it.

For pure joy, I look at a small painting by Arbit Blatas. An ocean liner is at the center of the composition, perhaps ready to depart. It holds the promise of discovery.

I'm not complaining about doing 20-hour days. It's a joy to be able to work on yet another film.

The world is full of a lot of fear and a lot of negativity, and a lot of judgment. I just think people need to start shifting into joy and happiness. As corny as it sounds, we need to make a shift.

Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow.

The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.

Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.

I've had the joy of spending thousands of hours under the sea. I wish I could take people along to see what I see, and to know what I know.

I think it's tragic that we have this human capacity, which appears to be hardwired, or so the evolutionary biologists say, for collective joy. We have these techniques for generating it that go back thousands of years, and yet we tend not to use this.

The joy of acting for me is to be able to experience emotions in a safe environment. You can't scream and cry in the street because everybody will look. If you do it on a movie set, you get applauded.

This is going to sound completely absurd, but I do sometimes feel like the enjoyment of an awards ceremony or the pride in the finished article hasn't ever surpassed the joy of doing the work, of making it. The doing it is really the bit I'm there for.

Each mind is pressed, and open every ear, to hear new tidings, though they no way joy us.

I feel that it means a lot to the people of Iran that my film is represented at the Oscars, and it makes me happy to bring them that joy, that I'm representing them and that I'm able to give them that element of pleasure to be the envoy from Iran. It's a very pleasant thing.

When you get pure joy out of 'being' rather than 'doing' or 'seeing,' that's when you realize how big and unexplainable some things are and being a dad is one of those very few things.

And of course, pop music is all about memorability and simplicity and positive messages and a little dash of joy.

For me, comedy should have a certain amount of joy in it. It should be about attacking the powerful - the politicians, the Trumps, the blowhards - going after them. We shouldn't be attacking the vulnerable.

There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Those who prepared for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themselves at the expense of joy.

Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.

Hollywood is the kind of place that takes what you do well in one thing and manufactures it so the joy can be taken out of it.

This work is a torture on the rump but a joy to the heart.

There's room for the Gap, but the joy of dressing is an art.

Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.

Your intuition will tell you where you need to go; it will connect you with people you should meet; it will guide you toward work that is meaningful for you - work that brings you joy, work that feels right for you.

Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.

But I think there's a genuine joy, too, a sense that no matter what, even if my stomach's growling, I'm going to dance. That's what I want to leave people with at the end of the play. After all this, people still know how to live.

The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.

Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.

Words are less needful to sorrow than to joy.

Michael has a connection with children, just like Mickey Mouse does, and he brings happiness to them, and joy.

If there are occasions when my grape turned into a raisin and my joy bell lost its resonance, please forgive me. Charge it to my head and not to my heart.

There was a lot of Southern Baptist preachers and some yelling ones but mostly we had a pastor who didn't scream and I found a lot of comfort and joy and peace as a child hearing the Bible.

The poet's expression of joy conceals his despair at not having found the reality of joy.

A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.

A good newspaper is never nearly good enough but a lousy newspaper is a joy forever.

Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.

Northern Sweden holds a special kind of magic. It's cold, lonely, and the people are tough and silent, or so the stereotype says. This is Asa Larsson's home turf and I find as much joy in reading her closely observed descriptions of the environment, as in following her intriguing plots.

Although we hardly see each other off the set, Joy and I get along well when we do. As far as the marriage between Nathan and Haley, I think they are young and will see the reality of the situation eventually.

These days cry out, as never before, for us to pay attention, so we can move through them and get our joy and pride back.

But I do love horses. They are such an expression of joy.

The only nice thing about being imperfect is the joy it brings to others.

For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair.

Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor's nose.

The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic, or intellectual, forms a bridge between the sharers which can be the basis for understanding much of what is not shared between them, and lessens the threat of their difference.

To the scientist there is the joy in pursuing truth which nearly counteracts the depressing revelations of truth.

Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how.

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.

The only joy I had was writing what was. That book was. It no longer amuses me to be all the things I was when I wrote that. But it is my story as I was then.

Life is a tragedy full of joy.

Whatever I do is done out of sheer joy; I drop my fruits like a ripe tree. What the general reader or the critic makes of them is not my concern.

Instead of asking 'How much damage will the work in question bring about?' why not ask 'How much good? How much joy?'

Sing the songs of joy to the Lord, serve the Name of the Lord, and become the servant of His servants.

It's an ongoing joy being a dad.

For my whole career, I've been a singer-slash-songwriter, even though I'm very thankfully known for my voice. Songwriting has always been a joy in my life, and to be recognized for it is extremely validating.

I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by which I cannot live in, make love to, possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy.

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.

My professional life in Hollywood has been filled with joy and laughter.

I think the joy of wanting to direct is having that nervous anxiety knowing your film is about to be shown and you're sitting right there with everyone.

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.