Joy Quotes

Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures.

Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize.

That's the great paradox of living on this earth, that in the midst of great pain you can have great joy as well. If we didn't have those things we'd just be numb.

The kitchen really is the castle itself. This is where we spend our happiest moments and where we find the joy of being a family.

Money is a strange thing. It ranks with love as our greatest source of joy, and with death as our greatest source of anxiety.

Certainly Dracula did bring a hell of a lot of joy to a hell of a lot of women. And if this erotic quality hadn't come out we'd have been very disappointed.

It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us; in joy we face the storm and defy it.

Ever since I bought and started flying an airplane, it's been almost exclusively for business. I love to fly. It's a great joy to me. But rarely do I use it for any kind of pleasure, other than it is a pleasure to fly.

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

I've never had a divorce, but I've seen so many of my friends, my sister, my family go through that stuff, so I try to write for the people that can't write about it. I take on their sorrow, so I'm able to kind of express it, or their joy.

The pleasure of jogging and running is rather like that of wearing a fur coat in Texas in August: the true joy comes in being able to take the damn thing off.

A sense of humor... is needed armor. Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life.

My wife has brought great beauty into my life. And my daughter has brought me nothing but joy. Those qualities were greatly lacking.

I didn't think Comfort and Joy was going to be a box-office smash.

A garden must combine the poetic and he mysterious with a feeling of serenity and joy.

Part of the joy of dancing is conversation. Trouble is, some men can't talk and dance at the same time.

The only joy in the world is to begin.

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

I enjoy sports. I get a real joy from playing sports but I don't look for those movies. Oliver Stone wanted to know if I would do Any Given Sunday and it just didn't appeal to me.

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.

Pain is pain, joy is joy - you can't avoid bringing pieces of yourself into a role.

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

I don't want to compete. I want to skate for the joy. I get so nervous in competition. I get always sick. I had pressures enough in my life from skating.

The answer, of course, in the mouth of a Christian teacher is that in Christianity alone is there both present joy and future hope.

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

Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.

Children love and want to be loved and they very much prefer the joy of accomplishment to the triumph of hateful failure. Do not mistake a child for his symptom.

Why we play as children is not because it is our work or because it is how we learn, though both statements are true; we play because we are wired for joy, it is imperative as human beings.

Olympism is a philosophy which, by blending sport with culture, seeks to create a way of life based on the joy found in effort, the educational value of good example and respect for universal ethical principles.

There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.