Joy Quotes

There is no such thing as the pursuit of happiness, but there is the discovery of joy.

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.

Joy is a subtle elf; I think one's happiest when he forgets himself.

Success turns a lot of people off. I have a pretty solid sense of joy and respect that irritates people, and can irritate me, too.

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.

My beautiful wife is dead. She meant everything to me. Her laughter, her tears and her joy will remain with me the rest of my life.

It has been an ache and a joy both to look over this big shoulder of mine at all my yesterdays.

Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.

The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let's face it, friends make life a lot more fun.

Because I actually find the next take after they've controlled it a little bit and repressed the laughter is actually a really interesting take, because that's still going on underneath the surface. That struggle to maintain composure becomes part of the joy of the scene.

We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone - but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.

Nobody understands another's sorrow, and nobody another's joy.

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

And I think a woman should find it a joy to be female because God made both male and female.

Anyway, he and I worked on the script together, and I must say he was a joy to work with. Very enthusiastic.

I guess I don't think there's any reason to feel guilty about having joy in your life, regardless of how bad things are in the world.

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.

Before the reward there must be labor. You plant before you harvest. You sow in tears before you reap joy.

Another night I dreamed I heard heavenly music sounding in my ears, and a flock of sheep was gathering round it. When the music ceased, the sheep leaped for joy, and ran together, shaking their heads; and one shook his head almost off, and seemed to have nothing but ears.

Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.

There are some people who have the quality of richness and joy in them and they communicate it to everything they touch. It is first of all a physical quality; then it is a quality of the spirit.

Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too.

I have drunken deep of joy, And I will taste no other wine tonight.

The girls are a complete joy and I love their passion. They argue with me like mad and I love that too.

If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.

I want to thank all the women who have worn my clothes, the famous and the unknown, who have been so faithful to me and given me so much joy.

The joy of the mind is the measure of its strength.

People who put my paintings on their walls are putting their values on their walls: faith, family, home, a simpler way of living, the beauty of nature, quiet, tranquillity, peace, joy, hope. They beckon you into this world that provides an alternative to your nightly news broadcast.

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.