Joy Quotes

If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.

~ Joseph Wood Krutch

I cannot think that when God sent us into the world, he had irreversibly decreed that we should be perpetually miserable in it. If our taking up the Cross imply our bidding adieu to all joy and satisfaction, how is it reconcilable with what Solomon expressly affirms of religion, that 'her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace?'

~ John Wesley

The trouble with many men is that they have got just enough religion to make them miserable. If there is not joy in religion, you have got a leak in your religion.

~ Billy Sunday

Christianity is not about religion. It's about faith, about being held, about being forgiven. It's about finding joy and finding home.

~ Bear Grylls

I think people's perception of a rich girl is literal, but metaphorically I embrace it as being rich in love, spirit, joy and religion. So it's not about money.

~ Angie Stone

Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons, a possession for all eternity.

~ Oscar Wilde

We will be more successful in all our endeavors if we can let go of the habit of running all the time, and take little pauses to relax and re-center ourselves. And we'll also have a lot more joy in living.

~ Thich Nhat Hanh

I'm trying to stay as calm as possible and focus one day at a time, but when reality sets in, I feel everything: anxiety, excitement, nerves, pressure and joy.

~ Shawn Johnson

My life at home gives me absolute joy. There are some days when, as soon as you've finished cooking breakfast and cleaning up the kitchen, it's time to start lunch, and by the time you've done that, you're doing dinner and thinking, 'There has to be a menu we can order from.'

~ Julia Roberts

If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same time, because a dose of joy is a spiritual cure. It transcends all barriers.

~ Ed Sullivan

It's always wonderful to get to know women, with the mystery and the joy and the depth. If you can make a woman laugh, you're seeing the most beautiful thing on God's Earth.

~ Keanu Reeves

Being a mother and grandmother is the best of the best in my life. My grandchildren multiply the joy my daughters bring me.

~ Alexandra Stoddard

No matter how busy I get or how much pressure is on my shoulders, a good workout makes me feel at ease. I come off the treadmill feeling relaxed, full of joy and with a sense of perspective over the issues on my plate.

~ Robin S. Sharma

Football is about joy. It's about dribbling. I favour every idea that makes the game beautiful. Every good idea has to last.

~ Ronaldinho

Now, when I hear that Christians are getting together in order to defend the people of Israel, of course it brings joy to my heart. And it simply says, look, people have learned from history.

~ Elie Wiesel

Winning the Super Bowl was obviously a great one, but the joy I felt of going to the Super Bowl, it was what I felt about the Pittsburgh Steelers and where we came from, the history of us to that point.

~ Joe Greene

I'm proud that I have done so many different kinds of things and maintained an amazing family. And I think that's the joy: that I've been able to have everything.

~ Billy Crystal

I'll be singing with The Blind Boys of Alabama, which is a great joy to me. I've done some work with them before, and they truly are amazing.

~ Aaron Neville

Haiti is an amazing country. Even though the people there have so little, their attitudes resonate a crazy amount of love and joy. It is truly inspiring to see that. My love for the country starts with them.

~ Noah Munck

We needed something to express our joy, our beauty, our power. And the rainbow did that.

~ Gilbert Baker

Gratitude changes the pangs of memory into a tranquil joy.

~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer

My mother had abandoned the family, so grandmother raised me. And she was instrumental in that she taught me that the world is a glorious place. She taught me to embrace humanity. And she'd say there's never an excuse for joy. And to be thankful.

~ Jewell Parker Rhodes

I'm thankful I am able to continue to share the joy and the inspiration tap brings.

~ Savion Glover

It is the experiences, the great triumphant joy of living to the fullest extent in which real meaning is found. God it's great to be alive!

~ Christopher Mccandless

The Church is the new creation, it is life and joy, it is the sacramental fellowship in which we share the ultimate purpose of God, made real for us now in our hearing the Word and sharing the Sacrament.

~ Rowan Williams

When I took the habit, the Lord immediately showed me how He favours those who do violence to themselves in order to serve Him. No one saw what I endured... At the moment of my entrance into this new state I felt a joy so great that it has never failed me even to this day; and God converted the dryness of my soul into a very great tenderness.

~ Saint Teresa Of Avila

Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too.

~ Frederick Buechner

Nothing gives me quite so much joy as when people tell me they've had their pets spayed or neutered.

~ Bob Barker

The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.

~ Helen Keller

My purpose in performing is to communicate the joy I experience in living.

~ John Denver

A woman experiencing an unplanned pregnancy also deserves to experience unplanned joy.

~ Patricia Heaton

Most of us experience a life full of wonderful moments and difficult moments. But for many of us, even when we are most joyful, there is fear behind our joy.

~ Thich Nhat Hanh

The striking thing about the Precious Blood is the bond it establishes between love and suffering in our experience, a bond that has become so close that we have come to think of suffering accepted with joy as the most authentic sign of love with any depth at all.

~ Gabriel Marcel

There is that awful moment when you realize that you're falling in love. That should be the most joyful moment, and actually it's not. It's always a moment that's full of fear because you know, as night follows day, the joy is going to rapidly be followed by some pain or other. All the angst of a relationship.

~ Helen Mirren

Because the biological mechanisms that affect our health and well-being are so dynamic, when people change their diet and lifestyle, they usually feel so much better, so quickly; it reframes the reason for changing from fear of dying to joy of living. Also, the support that patients give each other is a powerful motivator.

~ Dean Ornish

When news of the first plane's hitting the World Trade Center reached them, bin Laden's followers exploded with joy. But shrewder members of al-Qaeda and the Taliban leadership in Afghanistan realized that the attacks might not be the stunning victory that bin Laden, and many in the West, took them to be.

~ Peter Bergen

Once you have to start counting calories, it takes away from the joy of eating.

~ Mireille Guiliano

The single overriding objective in wellness is creating constant personal renewal where we recognize and act on the truth that each day is a miraculous gift, and our job is to untie the ribbons. That's the Law of Esprit: living life with joy.

~ Greg Anderson

To the scientist there is the joy in pursuing truth which nearly counteracts the depressing revelations of truth.

~ H. P. Lovecraft

Fearlessness is not only possible, it is the ultimate joy. When you touch nonfear, you are free.

~ Thich Nhat Hanh