Joy Quotes

Pierre had for the first time experienced that strange and fascinating feeling in the Slobodsky palace, when he suddenly felt that wealth and power and life, all that men build up and guard with such effort ,is only worth anything through the joy with which it can all be cast away.

~ Leo Tolstoy

She tips back her head and howls: Moooooown! Oh wonderful moooooowwwwwyyyn!

~ Carol Emshwiller

And what else could we have come here for, except to sense these tiny victories? Not the big victories that crush and kill the victor. Not the wars and civil ructions, but the saving grace of a Hollandaise sauce that has escaped all the possibilities of culinary disaster and is being spread like a yellow prayer on a plump cod steak - victoriously.

~ Sebastian Barry

The faithful of Shiva or Dionysus seek contact with those forces which...lead to a refusal of the politics, ambitions and limitations of ordinary social life. This does not involve simply a recognition of world harmony, but also an active participation in an experience which surpasses and upsets the order of material life.

~ Alain Daniélou

We lose our life by serving and lifting others. By so doing we experience the only true and lasting happiness. Service is not something we endure on this earth so we can earn the right to live in the celestial kingdom. Service is the very fiber of which an exalted life in the celestial kingdom is made. Oh, for the glorious day when these things all come naturally because of the purity of our hearts... We are truly happy only when we are engaged in unselfish service. Service is what godhood is all about.

~ Marion G. Romney

She was crouched in the corner of the room, eating something off the floor. It was the old woman dressed in endless black. When she looked up this time there was no question she was there for me. She had the face of my mother but much older, her ancient decayed mouth coming closer for her good-night kiss. I steeled myself against her putrid smell, the mouthful of bitter dust, but as her lips touched mine it was like biting into a purple black plum whose fruit was brilliant red, like an explosion of intense joy. Its childhood smell wrinkled my nose with pleasure, its sweet juices ran down my chin, turning into a beautiful black ocean where I floated safely, not lost as I had imagined, but securely tucked away deep in space.

~ Mary Woronov

One should dance while one still can.

~ Marty Rubin

Worthy or not, you will receive your destiny. Awake or not you will notice.

~ Julieanne O'connor

The examined life: nothing is more futile or counterproductive. The active, joyous, spontaneous life: that is what one should aim for.

~ Marty Rubin

Jesus Christ is my joy.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I was delighted to see you again, and forgot for the moment that all happiness is fleeting.

~ Alexandre Dumas

My teachers told me: Question everything; take nothing for granted. I question nothing, I take everything for granted.

~ Marty Rubin

I don't travel to learn about the world. I travel for the joy of traveling.

~ Marty Rubin

As long as there is thirst in you, water can quench it; but you can live a kind of life in which you never feel thirsty; do not go in the sun, do no manual work, stay at home and relax and you will not feel the thirst. But then you will find no joy in drinking water. He who toils all day, enjoys the bliss of a good night’s rest. This is ironical: if you want to enjoy the pleasure of a good night’s sleep you have to work like a labourer all day. The trouble is that you want to spend your days like an emperor and your nights like a labourer.

~ Osho

Don't let fear swallow all your happiness. Don't forget to take joy. Dag gulped. Both of their grounds were nearly closed. It was Arkady's voice alone that hinted how hard-bought this bit of wisdom might've been, yet the words had been nearly toneless.

~ Lois Mcmaster Bujold

O happy wound, full of delight, He whom You wound Is joyous indeed.

~ Jacopone Da Todi

Our lives are bound up with the lives of others. Our joy is bound up with the joy of others.

~ Ken Wytsma

There is a real joy in being truer version of yourself.

~ Mahrukh

Sing, laugh and be merry because today you're alive.

~ Marty Rubin

Suffering is the sorrow of joy.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

When this world totally fails, the ground for joy remains.

~ John Piper

Taking trips tore all of us up inside, for they seemed, each journey away from home, something that might have been less selfishly undertaken, or something that would test us, or something that had better be momentous, to justify such a leap into the dark. The torment and guilt - the torment of having the loved one go, the guilt of being the loved one gone - comes into my fiction as it did and does in my life. And most of all the guilt then was because it was true: I had left to arrive at some future and secret joy, at what was unknown, and what was no in New York, waiting to be discovered. My joy was connected with my writing; that was as much as I knew.

~ Eudora Welty

There is a madness that is joy, and there is a madness that is just madness.

~ Marty Rubin

for though life can have its unspeakable tragedies, there is simply too much joy out there for those who'd seek it.

~ P.s. Clinen

How often one goes to sleep troubled and full of pain, not knowing what causes the travail, and in the morning a whole new direction and clearness is there, maybe the result of the black reasoning. And again there are mornings when ecstasy bubbles in the blood, and the stomach and chest are tight and electric with joy, and nothing in the thoughts to justify it or cause it.

~ John Steinbeck

It is the length of the journey that ripens the joy of the outcome.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

The sweet sorrow is tears of joy.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Enjoyment of Jesus is not like icing on the cake, it’s like powder in the shell.

~ John Piper

Nowists are more likely to experience joy because they embrace the uncertainty of existence. They are switched on by the uncertain stuff of human life and come alive when faced with life at its most uncontrollable.

~ Max Mckeown

As long as the eyes of our faith are fixed upon our troubles we will not find joy. Until our minds consciously move the Lord from our peripheral vision into the narrow corridor of our focus, joy will elude us.

~ Paul Tautges

Pause & Remember- If you empty yourself of yesterday's sorrows, you will have much more room for today's joy.

~ Jenni Young

Looking in the mirror, I saw a joyful face. And this happy girl was just about to go on a trip, with a one way ticket in her bag. Life was a never ending journey.

~ Nico J. Genes

The little white bundle—toddling dutifully down the hall to the front door—froze. Then a high-pitched scream as he began to run as fast as he could (which was not very fast at all, any more) and Boris—whooping with laughter—dropped to his knees.“Oh!” snatching him up, as Popchik wriggled and struggled. “You got fat! He got fat!” he said indignantly as Popchik jumped up and kissed him on the face. “You let him get fat! Yes, hello, poustyshka, little bit of fluff you, hello! You remember me, don’t you?” He had toppled over on his back, stretched out and laughing, as Popchik—still screaming with joy—jumped all over him. “He remembers me!

~ Donna Tartt

Even ripples have a rhythmTo feel it, listen to their soundTap your feet as they directAnd joy shall abound…

~ Neelam Saxena Chandra

I was glad to hear that you were to be confirmed.

~ Theodore Roosevelt

I have better understanding how difficult and complex life can be, fortunately I know when not to take things so seriously and just enjoy every moment

~ Shellie Palmer

In other words, when all the supports of human life and earthly happiness are taken away, God will be our delight, our joy. This experience is humanly impossible. No ordinary person can speak in truth like this. If God alone is enough to support joy when all else is lost, it is a miracle of grace.

~ John Piper

Indeed the devil thinks more true thoughts about God in one day than a saint does in a lifetime, and God is not honored by it. The problem with the devil is not his theology, but his desires. Our chief end is to glorify God, the great Object. We do so most fully when we treasure him, desire him, delight in him so supremely that we let goods and kindred go and display his love to the poor and the lost.

~ John Piper

Dear Lord, I ask that you help me make it through today with patience, understanding, and calmness in my heart. I ask that you replace any darkness in my life with light and my frustrations with joy. I ask these things in Jesus’s name, amen.

~ Ron Baratono

The joy of knowing a foreign language is inexpressible. I find it really difficult to express such joy in my mother tongue.

~ Munia Khan