Joy Quotes

Taking joy in living is a woman's best cosmetic.

~ Rosalind Russell

If Joy Behar or Sherri Shepherd was a dude, they'd be off TV. They're not funny enough for dudes. What if Roseanne Barr was a dude? Think we'd know who she was?

~ Adam Carolla

And remember, it's also very funny, because side by side with grief lies joy.

~ Fran Drescher

The imagination is the spur of delights... all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything; now, is it not by means of the imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?

~ Marquis De Sade

You think in a different way when you don't have any money. The joy of poverty is that you use your imagination to come up with stuff.

~ Amy Sedaris

Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.

~ Claude Monet

And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, till the Devil whispered behind the leaves 'It's pretty, but is it Art?'

~ Rudyard Kipling

Part of the joy of looking at art is getting in sync in some ways with the decision-making process that the artist used and the record that's embedded in the work.

~ Chuck Close

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

~ Henry Kissinger

There's room for the Gap, but the joy of dressing is an art.

~ John Galliano

I'm not gonna give the British Government the joy of keeping taxing me. They don't tax art. And all my cars are just a collection of art.

~ Jay Kay

Joy doesn't betray but sustains activism. And when you face a politics that aspires to make you fearful, alienated and isolated, joy is a fine initial act of insurrection.

~ Rebecca Solnit

I can tell you, dearest friend, that if it became known how much friendship, love and a world of human and spiritual references I have smuggled into these three movements, the adherents of programme music - should there be any left - would go mad with joy.

~ Alban Berg

Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

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

~ Jim Rohn

Nobody understands another's sorrow, and nobody another's joy.

~ Franz Schubert

If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough.

~ Audrey Hepburn

Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.

~ Joseph Campbell

Words are less needful to sorrow than to joy.

~ Helen Hunt Jackson

There are receptors to these molecules in your immune system, in your gut and in your heart. So when you say, 'I have a gut feeling' or 'my heart is sad' or 'I am bursting with joy,' you're not speaking metaphorically. You're speaking literally.

~ Deepak Chopra

We never taste a perfect joy our happiest successes are mixed with sadness.

~ Pierre Corneille

It's sad that grandkids show up at the end of obituaries, way behind the list of work place achievements, social clubs and survivors. Why last? If you've got grandkids, you know they're first when it comes to the joy in your life.

~ Regina Brett

The history of soccer is a sad voyage from beauty to duty. When the sport became an industry, the beauty that blossoms from the joy of play got torn out by its very roots.

~ Eduardo Galeano

When people come and see me, I want them to experience joy. I don't do any sad songs in my show. It's to lift the spirit.

~ Darlene Love

I have never had a current state of mind. My mind changes a great deal. I am very affected by any sorrow or sad thing, and I am very affected by joy and beauty.

~ Luise Rainer

I can see the humorous side of things and enjoy the fun when it comes; but look where I will, there seems to me always more sadness than joy in life.

~ Jerome K. Jerome

Despite our ever-connective technology, neither Skype nor Facebook - not even a telephone call - can come close to the joy of being with loved ones in person.

~ Marlo Thomas

When you've done the technical part, you're then into the joy, the zen, into being. Technology no longer exists for you. You're then into the mystery of the thing you're doing.

~ William Shatner

Technological society has succeeded in multiplying the opportunities for pleasure, but it has great difficulty in generating joy.

~ Pope Paul Vi

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.

~ George Leigh Mallory

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

~ Anatole France

The soul's joy lies in doing.

~ Percy Bysshe Shelley

That was my pride and joy - that I made it through all those years of minor hockey without losing any of my teeth; then, I ended up losing them in a car accident in New York when I was riding in a taxi. So, I end up losing my teeth, but not in the glamorous fashion I envisioned.

~ Tom Glavine

Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy and serenity.

~ Thich Nhat Hanh

Balance, peace, and joy are the fruit of a successful life. It starts with recognizing your talents and finding ways to serve others by using them.

~ Thomas Kinkade

Disappointment is a sticky one, because no one can steal contentment, joy, gratitude, or peace - we have to give it away.

~ Kristin Armstrong

Nothing has brought me more love, joy and peace than being a good husband and good daddy.

~ Frank Abagnale

Be good, keep your feet dry, your eyes open, your heart at peace and your soul in the joy of Christ.

~ Thomas Merton

Releasing the invisible ties to those who have left you, betrayed you, disappointed you or hurt you, you open up to higher realms of love, peace and joy.

~ Debbie Ford

I always wanted to see people's lives transformed from depression and anxiety to joy and peace.

~ David D. Burns