Joy Quotes

The joy of style lies not in how we look to other people, but in how we look to ourselves - and the most memorable and beautiful outfits are simply those that, in some rare moment of joy, we found the courage to share with the world.

~ Simon Van Booy

When everything goes wrong, what a joy to test your soul and see if it has endurance and courage. An invisible and all-powerful enemy - some call him God, others the Devil, seem to rush upon us to destroy us; but we are not destroyed.

~ Nikos Kazantzakis

For millions, Roger Ebert will be remembered as a writer and television personality who brought a sense of passion and excellence to his craft. For me, he is a man who fused joy and courage as few others ever have. My life was enriched by having such a friend; it is poorer for losing such a friend.

~ Jeff Greenfield

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

~ Aeschylus

Life seeks life and loves life. The opening of a catkin of a willow, in the flight of the butterfly, in the chirping of a tree-toad or the sweep of an eagle - my life loves to see how others live, exults in their joy, and so far is partner in their great concern.

~ Edward Everett Hale

I seem to be thinking rationally again in the style that is characteristic of scientists. However, this is not entirely a matter of joy, as if someone returned from physical disability to good physical health. One aspect of this is that rationality of thought imposes a limit on a person's concept of his relation to the cosmos.

~ John Forbes Nash

To make others less happy is a crime. To make ourselves unhappy is where all crime starts. We must try to contribute joy to the world. That is true no matter what our problems, our health, our circumstances. We must try. I didn't always know this, and am happy I lived long enough to find it out.

~ Roger Ebert

What a brutish master sin is, taking the joy from one's life, stealing money and health, giving promise of tomorrow's pleasures, and finally leading one onto the rotten planking that overlies the mouth of the pit.

~ Jim Elliot

I seem to be thinking rationally again in the style that is characteristic of scientists. However, this is not entirely a matter of joy as if someone returned from physical disability to good physical health.

~ John Forbes Nash

My good health, coupled with joy of tobogganing and my desire to be the best, has helped me stay in professional sport for so long.

~ Armin Zoggeler

Travel is hard, but entertaining is joy.

~ Debbie Reynolds

Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.

~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.

~ William Blake

There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.

~ Oscar Wilde

There is a joy in sorrow which none but a mourner can know.

~ Jean Paul

Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.

~ William Arthur Ward

Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.

~ Joseph Campbell

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.

~ Christopher Mccandless

The thrill of performing - that's something that hasn't changed for me. That simultaneous joy of creating something and sharing it with an audience - it's the same now as it was then, when it was just my cousins' birthday party.

~ Steve Buscemi

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.

~ Michael Bay

It's almost worth having been in the army for the joy your freedom gives you.

~ John Dos Passos

Confession has been my habitual homecoming since I was a child. It is a consolation and a joy, and such joy, our faith teaches us, is meant for everyone. It is our vocation to bring it to as many people as possible.

~ Donald Wuerl

For me, it's a great joy to be together with priests: in the end, the bishop of Rome is the bishop and brother of all priests. His mandate is to confirm the brothers in the faith.

~ Pope Benedict Xvi

So, to really execute design in its highest form and making people feel joy, that's a great reward.

~ Genevieve Gorder

We make no greater voluntary choice in this life than the selection of a marriage partner. This decision can bring eternal happiness and joy. To find sublime fulfillment in marriage, both partners need to be fully committed to the marriage.

~ James E. Faust

All of our sons and daughters ought to have the same opportunity to experience the joy and stability of marriage.

~ Rob Portman

There are seasons in life. Don't ever let anyone try to deny you the joy of one season because they believe you should stay in another season... Listen to yourself. Trust your instincts. Keep your perspective.

~ Jane Clayson

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

~ Elbert Hubbard

God makes it really clear that society and civilization is really held together by the glue of families... When a man and a woman come together and say 'I do,' they are committing for a lifetime to love each other and to model what love is and what forgiveness is and what joy is to their kids.

~ Kirk Cameron

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

~ Luis Barragán

Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You can't put on make-up, or dress yourself, or do you hair with any sort of fun or joy if you're doing it from a position of correction.

~ Kevyn Aucoin

Beauty is whatever gives joy.

~ Edna St. Vincent Millay

We all find joy and radiance and a reason to move on even in the most dire of circumstances. Even in chaos and madness, there's still a beauty that comes from just the vibrancy of another human spirit.

~ Ishmael Beah

'Green Garden' is about beauty and joy and lush green and dance and excitement and smiling from within.

~ Laura Mvula

Laughter and joy are part of the beauty of life.

~ Diogo Morgado

Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it; that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one.

~ André Gide

He who seeks truth shall find beauty. He who seeks beauty shall find vanity. He who seeks order shall find gratification. He who seeks gratification shall be disappointed. He who considers himself the servant of his fellow beings shall find the joy of self-expression. He who seeks self-expression shall fall into the pit of arrogance.

~ Moshe Safdie

I suppose one of the challenges of writing the word-side of music these days is trying to decipher and communicate how this planet is very overwhelming at this point. The difficulties we face are overwhelming. It's very difficult to give yourself the time to breathe and appreciate the joy and beauty that might be just right around us.

~ Eddie Vedder

This is so cliche and cheesy but so true - seeing how happy people get if you A. give them a beauty product or B. give them a tip that works. There's such joy in finding a good beauty product.

~ Eva Chen

There is little premium in poetry in a world that thinks of Pound and Whitman as a weight and a sampler, not an Ezra, a Walt, a thing of beauty, a joy forever.

~ Anna Quindlen