Joy Quotes

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.

It's very hard to put forth a film that's about love and the joy of love and for it not to be patronising and not make people nauseous or make them roll their eyes.

Did any artist ever bring more pure joy to more people than Fred Astaire?

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.

I want ordinary people to enjoy a decent standard of living, with ever increasing security, comfort and joy.

It's been a joy to be a part of other people's journey, to be able to inspire and be a part of new singers coming up in this business.

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.

The writer's joy is the thought that can become emotion, the emotion that can wholly become a thought.

I saw myself as an electronic joy rider.

I used to love watching him as a player, so it is a joy to play alongside him. I might take the mickey out of him, but deep down I have so much admiration for him.

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.

It is now possible to quantify people's levels of happiness pretty accurately by asking them, by observation, and by measuring electrical activity in the brain, in degrees from terrible pain to sublime joy.

A great free joy surges through me when I work... with tense slashes and a few thrusts the beautiful white fields receive their color and the work is finished in a few minutes.

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.