Joy Quotes

When I look back at that freedom of childhood, which is in a way infinite, and at all the joy and the intense happiness, now lost, I sometimes think that childhood is where the real meaning of life is located, and that we, adults, are its servants - that that's our purpose.

~ Karl Ove Knausgaard

Life is life, and one has experiences that are painful and some that are very pleasant, and one has reward and sacrifice and more reward and disappointment and joy and happiness, and it's always going to be the same.

~ Mel Gibson

Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.

~ Eleanor Roosevelt

In South Korea, they believe that when you turn 60, you've become a baby again and the rest of your life should be totally about joy and happiness, and people should leave you alone, and I just think that that's the height of intelligence.

~ Alice Walker

The world is full of a lot of fear and a lot of negativity, and a lot of judgment. I just think people need to start shifting into joy and happiness. As corny as it sounds, we need to make a shift.

~ Ellen Degeneres

Genuine happiness comes from within, and often it comes in spontaneous feelings of joy.

~ Andrew Weil

I've learned that men and women who are living wholehearted lives really allow themselves to soften into joy and happiness. They allow themselves to experience it.

~ Brené Brown

The mission of my company is to bring three things to the world through entertainment: joy, happiness, and change. We must believe our precious time is being used to make a product worth more than anything else we could be doing.

~ Charlie Ebersol

The wretched and miserable would rise into plenty of joy and happiness as soon as they climb the steps of my mosque.

~ Sai Baba

Joy can only be real if people look upon their life as a service and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.

~ Leo Tolstoy

If you really want to receive joy and happiness, then serve others with all your heart. Lift their burden, and your own burden will be lighter.

~ Ezra Taft Benson

When I get on stage, my first goal is not to show my expertise, but on the contrary, to give a bit of happiness, of joy, of cheerfulness. I am firmly convinced that in order to sing well, you must love your neighbor and be passionate about life.

~ Andrea Bocelli

I don't really care how I am remembered as long as I bring happiness and joy to people.

~ Eddie Albert

I discovered that joy is not the negation of pain, but rather acknowledging the presence of pain and feeling happiness in spite of it.

~ Lupita Nyong'o

I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river.

~ Zhuangzi

When I design, I always pull from things that are significant to me. In my work, I search for happiness and then try to convey that joy in the clothes.

~ Jeremy Scott

I'm no expert. I have no psychic powers, and I sure don't possess any secret wisdom. I'm just Janet. I have strengths, weaknesses, fears, happiness, sadness. I experience joy and I experience pain. I'm highly emotional. I'm very vulnerable.

~ Janet Jackson

Most people in the Western world grow up with the received wisdom that Mozart was a genius. But few people necessarily know why. More than anyone else, he captured this something which is the human condition, the fine line that we all constantly dance between joy and pain, between absolute happiness and absolute heartbreak.

~ Charles Hazlewood

I think people should know more of Africa in terms of its joie de vivre, its feeling for life. In spite of the images that one knows about Africa - the economic poverty, the corruption - there's a joy to living and a happiness in community, living together, in community life, which may be missing here in America.

~ Youssou N'dour

Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one's identity as a being of worth and dignity.

~ Rollo May

All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.

~ Lord Byron

I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.

~ Malcolm Muggeridge

There may be Peace without Joy, and Joy without Peace, but the two combined make Happiness.

~ John Buchan

Off with you! You're a happy fellow, for you'll give happiness and joy to many other people. There is nothing better or greater than that!

~ Ludwig Van Beethoven

I wanted Jesus in 'A.D.' to be very, very, very human - to have those qualities of vulnerability and doubt and pain and sadness and loneliness. Once the resurrection happens and we see that Jesus has risen, it's almost complete, right? It's all about the joy and the smile and the happiness and the closeness to the disciples.

~ Juan Pablo Di Pace

I'm trying to find a little joy and happiness, a lot of giggles - and maybe some pretty shoes.

~ Tracee Ellis Ross

For me, music is my joy. It's my happiness. As long as this medicine, this chemo is in my body, I didn't have my love, my joy.

~ Sharon Jones

A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked.

~ Anaïs Nin

When I wake up every morning, I smile and say, 'Thank you.' Because out of my window I can see the mountains, then go hiking with my dog and share her bounding joy in the world.

~ Carole King

It was morning; through the high window I saw the pure, bright blue of the sky as it hovered cheerfully over the long roofs of the neighboring houses. It too seemed full of joy, as if it had special plans, and had put on its finest clothes for the occasion.

~ Herman Hesse

Then there is a still higher type of courage - the courage to brave pain, to live with it, to never let others know of it and to still find joy in life; to wake up in the morning with an enthusiasm for the day ahead.

~ Howard Cosell

I went to visit Alcatraz years ago when I was on tour with the Pistols, and I really liked the atmosphere of the place. I genuinely, really, thoroughly enjoyed the whole morning there. I just liked the quietness and stillness of what is basically a cruel prison complex. I still found some kind of joy in that. That's how I am.

~ John Lydon

Fruit in the morning is such a big joy for me. I like to grab fruit from the tree, et cetera. I don't feel that way with vegetables. Fruit, you can eat it at any time, any moment, in any type of situation. I like everything about fruit; I like the color.

~ Christian Louboutin

It's always such a joy that you wake up in the morning and there's work to do.

~ Jerome Lawrence

The kitchen really is the castle itself. This is where we spend our happiest moments and where we find the joy of being a family.

~ Mario Batali

I wanted to deliver babies and become a midwife. I think childbirth is one of the most amazing things you could ever experience, and I loved working with people and seeing the joys in family when they welcome a new member to it. It really brought me joy to be around that.

~ Natalie Martinez

It's the sense of what family is at the dinner table. It was the joy of knowing mother was in the kitchen making our favorite dish. I wish more people would do this and recall the joy of life.

~ Paul Prudhomme

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.

~ Dolly Parton

First and foremost comes my family and my life with Brad. We have so much joy in raising our children and teaching them about the world that nothing really compares to that.

~ Angelina Jolie

Learning should be a joy and full of excitement. It is life's greatest adventure it is an illustrated excursion into the minds of the noble and the learned.

~ Taylor Caldwell