Joy Quotes
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A little quiet reflection will remind me that yes to God always leads in the end to joy.
Elisabeth Elliot
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You have been oriented that you must pay a price in order to get somewhere, and in the process, you've come to believe that getting there must be really important, therefore, it must be your purpose. And we say, but if you're not getting to joy, then you've gotten nowhere. Joy is really where you're going.
Esther Hicks
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Scientists have discovered that the small, brave act of cooperating with another person, of choosing trust over cynicism, generosity over selfishness, makes the brain light up with quiet joy.
Natalie Angier
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True joy is to take pleasure in one's own accomplishments.
Kazuo Koike
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Marriage. . . is the most glorious and most exalting principle of the gospel of Jesus Christ. No ordinance is of more importance and none more sacred and more necessary to the eternal joy of man. Faithfulness to the marriage covenant brings the fullest joy here and glorious rewards hereafter.
Ezra Taft Benson
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Faith brings into our lives such freedom, such love, such peace, and such joy that there are no words in any language that can explain it. You have to have it in order to know it. You have to experience it in order to understand it. Faith liberates. It liberates love and hope. If I am free to love and free to hope, what more do I want of life?
Catherine Doherty
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The truth is life is full of joy and full of great sorrow, but you can't have one without the other.
Andre Dubus
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Some of the happiest people I know have none of the things the world insists are necessary for satisfaction and joy.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
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The God of Christians is a God of love and comfort, a God who fills the soul and heart of those whom he possesses, a God who makes them conscious of their inward wretchedness, and his infinite mercy; who unites himself to their inmost soul, who fills it with humility and joy, with confidence and love, who renders them incapable of any other end than himself.
Blaise Pascal
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Blest pair of Sirens, pledges of Heaven's joy,
John Milton
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I felt a sensation that later in my life was often repeated: the joy of the new.
Elena Ferrante
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The true poetry of life: the poetry of the commonplace, of the ordinary man, of the plain, toil-worn woman, with their loves and their joys, their sorrows and their griefs.
William Osler
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Success, I would find out, is interior. It has to do with self-fulfillment and the joy of living.
Sofia Villani Scicolone
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Laughter is eternity if joy is real.
Bono U2
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Music is one of those things that brings great joy to people, singing is a sort of unifier of people, no matter what political place or original place you come from.
Brian Viglione
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My deepest gratitude to the Creator for His gift to me...the joy I receive in creating my music.
Michael Jackson
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You've just had the most imponderable joy of watching charlieissocoollike, which makes you, like, cool.
Stephen Fry
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T hanks for time to be together, turkey, talk, and tangy weather. H for harvest stored away, home, and hearth, and holiday. A for autumn's frosty art, and abundance in the heart. N for neighbors, and November, nice things, new things to remember. K for kitchen, kettles' croon, kith and kin expected soon. S for sizzles, sights, and sounds, and something special that about. That spells THANKS for joy in living and a jolly good Thanksgiving.
Aileen Fisher
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Don't go to work to make money; go to work to spread joy.
Marianne Williamson
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The living word awakened my soul, gave it light, hope, joy, set it free!
Helen Keller
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I would not give one moment of heaven for all the joy and riches of the world, even if it lasted for thousands and thousands of years.
Martin Luther
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It's such a joy to be able to play someone who is angry. It's a joy and a relief.
Sandra Bullock
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I'm so, so full of joy that America elected Obama.
Estelle
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The woods of Arcady are dead, And over is their antique joy; Of old the world on dreaming fed Gray Truth is now her painted toy.
William Butler Yeats