Joy Quotes

Wait for that wisest of all counselores, Time.

~ Pericles

Although not a very old man, I have yet lived a great deal in my life, and I have known sorrow too bitter and joy too keen to allow me to become either cast down or elated for more than a very brief period over any success or defeat.

~ Theodore Roosevelt

The joy you find as a teen, however frivolous and dumb, is pure and meaningful.

~ Goldy Moldavsky

The things that brought me the most comfort now were too small to list. Raspberries in cream. Sparrows with cocked heads. Shadows of bare limbs making for sidewalk filigrees. Roses past their prime with their petals loose about them. The shouts of children at play in the neighborhood, Ginger Rogers on the black-and-white screen.

~ Elizabeth Berg

The wisest were just the poor and simple people. They knew the war to be a misfortune, whereas those who were better off, and should have been able to see more clearly what the consequences would be, were beside themselves with joy.

~ Erich Maria Remarque

There are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind them when they go.

~ Frederick William Faber

I am going to hold a pistol to the head of the Modern Man. But I shall not use it to kill him–only to bring him to life.

~ G.k. Chesterton

To rejoice in temporal comforts is dangerous, to rejoice in self is foolish, to rejoice in sin is fatal, but to rejoice in God is heavenly.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.

~ Denis Waitley

And all the host laughed and wept, and in the midst of their merriment and tears the clear voice of the minstrel rose like silver and gold, and all men were hushed. And he sang to them, now in the Elven-tongue, now in the speech of the West, until their hearts, wounded with sweet words, overflowed, and their joy was like swords, and they passed in thought out to regions where pain and delight flow together and tears are the very wine of blessedness.

~ J.r.r. Tolkien

When we lay the soil of our hard lives open to the rain of grace and let joy penetrate our cracked and dry places, let joy soak into our broken skin and deep crevices, life grows. How can this not be the best thing for the world? For us?

~ Ann Voskamp

We must never expect discretion in first love: it is accompanied by such excessive joy that unless the joy is allowed to overflow, it will choke you.

~ Alexandre Dumas

The essence of life is not in the great victories and grand failures, but in the simple joys.

~ Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Stress isn't only a joy stealer. The way we respond to it can be sin.

~ Ann Voskamp

Embrace fanaticism. Harness joie de vivre by pursuing insane interests, consuming passions, and constant sources of gratification that do not depend on the approval of others

~ Elizabeth Wurtzel

There was still no likelihood that we could make a living from dance. We were doing it because we loved it... We realized how full we felt, we were surrounded by music and dancing and joy.

~ Alvin Ailey

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

~ Pearl Bailey

We all struggle alone through the ten thousand joys and ten thousand sorrows of our lives.

~ Elizabeth Kim

I trust all joy

~ Theodore Roethke

I like joy, I want to be joyous. I want to smile and I want to make people laugh. And that`s all I want. I like being happy. I want to make others happy.

~ Doris Day

She was becoming sad. There is no joy involved in following others' expectations of yourself.

~ Miriam Toews

She had had her momentary flowering, a year, perhaps, of wildrose beauty, and then she had suddenly swollen like a fertilized fruit and grown hard and red and coarse, and then her life had been laundering, scrubbing, laundering, first for children, then for grandchildren, over thirty years. At the end of it she was still singing.

~ George Orwell

There is nothing dreary or doubtful about (the life). It is meant to be continually joyful...We are called to a settled happiness in the Lord whose joy is our strength.

~ Amy Carmichael

Is the height of my chara joy dependent on the depths of my eucharisteo thanks?

~ Ann Voskamp

These are the hands of Rachel Joy Scott and one day, will touch millions of people's hearts.

~ Rachel Scott

When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.

~ Stanisław Jerzy Lec

As to the mouth, it delights at times in laughter; it is disposed to impart all that the brain conceives; though I daresay it would be silent on much the heart experiences. Mobile and flexible, it was never intended to be compressed in the eternal silence of solitude: it is a mouth which should speak much and smile often, and have human affection for its interlocutor.

~ Charlotte Brontë

A person can drop dead even while singing. But that's no reason to stop singing.

~ Marty Rubin

Something in the air this morning made me feel like flying. . . Spring Flight

~ Eileen Granfors

The most beautiful is to see the joy in your eyes.

~ Gregor Golob

The true purpose of life is the perfection of humanity through individual effort, under the guidance of God's inspiration. Real life is response to the best within us. To be alive only to appetite, pleasure, pride, money-making, and not to goodness and kindness, purity and love, poetry, music, flowers, stars, God and eternal hopes, is to deprive one's self of the real joy of living.

~ David O. Mckay

Because beyond their practical function, all gestures have a meaning that exceeds the intention of those who make them; when people in bathing suits fling themselves into the water, it is joy itself that shows in the gesture, notwithstanding any sadness the divers may actually feel. When someone jumps into the water fully clothed, it is another thing entirely: the only person who jumps into the water fully clothed is a person trying to drown; and a person trying to drown does not dive headfirst; he lets himself fall: thus speaks the immemorial language of gestures.

~ Milan Kundera

Good is not the opposite of evil, joy is the opposite of evil.

~ Michael Ventura

My joy was ghostly, like something not quite realized.

~ Roshani Chokshi

All joy... emphasizes our pilgrim status; always reminds, beckons, awakens desire. Our best havings are wantings.

~ C.s. Lewis

If ever you have had a romantic, uncalculating friendship, - a boundless worship and belief in some hero of your soul, - if ever you have so loved, that all cold prudence, all selfish worldly considerations have gone down like drift-wood before a river flooded with new rain from heaven, so that you even forgot yourself, and were ready to cast your whole being into the chasm of existence, as an offering before the feet of another, and all for nothing, - if you awoke bitterly betrayed and deceived, still give thanks to God that you have had one glimpse of heaven. The door now shut will open again. Rejoice that the noblest capability of your eternal inheritance has been made known to you; treasure it, as the highest honor of your being, that ever you could so feel, -that so divine a guest ever possessed your soul.

~ Harriet Beecher Stowe

He imagines a necessary joy in things that must fly to eat.

~ Wendell Berry

Joy is a marvelous increasing of what exists, a pure addition out of nothingness.

~ Rainer Maria Rilke

Joys impregnate. Sorrows bring forth.

~ William Blake

Suffering has its place in the scheme of things. It serves a purpose even though the sufferer may be entirely free from the taint of sin... Among the gentlest and sweetest souls are sometimes found those who suffer much. A person that accepts his lot, does his best, loving both God and man, is a success and will experience a joy in living.

~ Joseph F. Merrill