Joy Quotes

I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.

I cannot sleep - great joy is as restless as great sorrow.

If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same time, because a dose of joy is a spiritual cure. It transcends all barriers.

I don't really care how I am remembered as long as I bring happiness and joy to people.

Meditation is painful in the beginning but it bestows immortal Bliss and supreme joy in the end.

I love making stuff. There's a joy in having the first molecule of an idea, then testing it in front of audiences at secret shows that people only know about the day before. I videotape those, study them, enjoy being in the character and figuring out the movie.

The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.

I'm trying to stay as calm as possible and focus one day at a time, but when reality sets in, I feel everything: anxiety, excitement, nerves, pressure and joy.

You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.

Whoever loves above all the approach of love will never know the joy of attaining it.

Shared joy is increased, shared pain is lessened.

It's an ongoing joy being a dad.

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.

To not sing with an orchestra, to not be able to communicate through my voice, which I've done all my life, and not to be able to phrase lyrics and give people that kind of joy, I think I would be totally devastated.

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

What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they've taken away?

Joy, has no cost.

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

Joy is not the result of getting what you want; it is the way to get what you want. In the deepest sense, joy is what you want.

If things don't come easy, there is no premium on effort. There should be joy in the chase, zest in the pursuit.

I hate this fast growing tendency to chain men to machines in big factories and deprive them of all joy in their efforts - the plan will lead to cheap men and cheap products.

It doesn't matter if you have a desperate heart when you have to sing about joy; it doesn't matter if you're scared to death when the lights go on.

All beautiful and noble qualities have been united in me... I shall be the fruit which will leave eternal vitality behind even after its decay. How great must be your joy, therefore, to have given birth to me.

The joy is in the getting there. The beginning years of starting your business, the camaraderie when you're in the pit together, are the best years of your life. So rather than being so focused on when you get big and powerful, if you can just get the juice out of that... don't miss it.

We don't make movies for critics. I've done four movies; there's millions upon millions upon millions of people who've paid to see them. Somebody likes them. My greatest joy is to sit anonymously in a dark theater and watch it with an audience, a paying audience.

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

Grief, and an estate, is joy understood.

It's always wonderful to get to know women, with the mystery and the joy and the depth. If you can make a woman laugh, you're seeing the most beautiful thing on God's Earth.

It has worked great good in other communities in the state where it has been honestly and faithfully tried, and I feel confident it will do the same in Pitt, if we faithfully administer the law, and that it will bring gladness and joy into the homes of the people.

It's such a joy to work with different ensembles and create a collaboration. Rehearsing and building a performance is very interesting for me.