Joy Quotes

No one feels another's grief, no one understands another's joy. People imagine they can reach one another. In reality they only pass each other by.

I am an optimist. I think, as bad as life sometimes gets, there is so much joy and so much good stuff, that there is a balance.

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

I've worked with very few that I considered unpleasant. Dennis the Menace was a joy to work on.

You know what? Joy is the only guide. I'm going to have fun regardless.

I loved words. I love to sing them and speak them and even now, I must admit, I have fallen into the joy of writing them.

Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one's liberty.

What we get from this adventure is just sheer joy. And joy is, after all, the end of life. We do not live to eat and make money.

It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion; it is a joy of every moment.

To be honest I live among the English and have always found them to be very honest in their business dealings. They are noble, hard-working and anxious to do the right thing. But joy eludes them, they lack the joy that the Irish have.

Thy love is singular when all thy delight is in Jesus Christ and in no other thing finds joy and comfort.

No one is drawn to writing about being happy or feelings of joy.

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!

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

To love the one who loves you, To admire the one who admires you, In a word, to be the idol of one's idol, Is exceeding the limit of human joy; It is stealing fire from heaven.

To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy.

Joy is like restless day; but peace divine like quiet night; Lead me, O Lord, till perfect Day shall shine through Peace to Light.

The time to read is any time: no apparatus, no appointment of time and place, is necessary. It is the only art which can be practiced at any hour of the day or night, whenever the time and inclination comes, that is your time for reading; in joy or sorrow, health or illness.

Sometimes it is a great joy just to listen to someone we love talking.

It is a simple but sometimes forgotten truth that the greatest enemy to present joy and high hopes is the cultivation of retrospective bitterness.

I don't have joy in watching myself, whereas, actually, I quite like listening to my own music.

Safin, in his way, is very talented. It is a joy to watch them play; it is tennis of a very high quality.

That was the big lesson for all of us. Everything was going great on paper, but we all became miserable because we were so caught up in the machinery of how you make that happen, it took away the sheer joy.

A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.

So I never spend a lot of time analyzing why people respond to my work. But I think that it's just the joy, a passion for life, that I think has always been in my characters. Beyond that, I'm just grateful for it.

Joy always came after pain.

The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.

Talk of joy: there may be things better than beef stew and baked potatoes and home-made bread - there may be.

The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.

Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.