Joy Quotes
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Come, let us mount on the wings of the morning, Flying for joy of the flight, Wild with all longing, now soaring, now staying, Mingling like day and dawn, swinging and swaying, Hung like a cloud in the light: I am immortal! I feel it! I feel it! Love bears me up, love is might!
Margaret Fuller -
Even his griefs are a joy long after to one that remembers all that he wrought and endured.
Homer
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I've seen that many times in rural African villages where people have nothing but a hut and a bowl. The joy in the children's eyes is something you wish you could package and bring back to America.
Oprah Winfrey -
Beauty comes first. Victory is secondary. What matters is joy.
Socrates -
Always remember, joy is not incidental to spiritual quest. It is vital.
Nachman of Breslov -
Whenever I do get to work with John Barrowman, it is absolutely a joy. We just crack each other up.
Katrina Law -
She gave up beauty in her tender youth, gave all her hope and joy and pleasant ways; she covered up her eyes lest they should gaze on vanity, and chose the bitter truth.
Christina Rossetti -
Foolish talking and jesting are not the ways in which Christian cheerfulness should express itself, but rather "giving of thanks" (Eph. 5:4). Religion is the source of joy and gladness, but its joy is expressed in a religious way, in thanksgiving and praise.
Charles Hodge
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There's a certain amount of joy in playing a character in the moment and not knowing what's going to roll out as it goes on. It's a bit like life, in a way.
Liam Cunningham -
I just want other people to know the kind of joy that I have in my life. I want other people to be able to have fun.
Mandy Patinkin -
You must keep people happy backstage because that affects what's onstage. During a run, the playwright feels like the mayor of a small town filled with noble creatures who have to get out there and make it brand new every night. When a production works, it's unlike any other joy in the world.
John Guare -
Why, then, if expensive things cannot bring us remarkable joy, are we so powerfully drawn to them?
Alain de Botton -
If atheism solved all human woe, then the Soviet Union would have been an empire of joy and dancing bunnies instead of the land of corpses.
John C. Wright -
Andy Griffith His pursuit of excellence and the joy he took in creating served generations & shaped my life I'm forever grateful RIP Andy.
Andy Griffith
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There are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind them when they go.
Jean Paul -
Pleasures flit by - they are only for yourself; work leaves a mark of long-lasting joy, work is for others.
Dmitri Mendeleev -
The hard work of sowing seed in what looks like perfectly empty earth has a time of harvest. All suffering, pain, emptiness, disappointment is seed: sow it in God and He will, finally, bring a crop of joy from it.
Eugene H. Peterson -
With our producer, Greg Fidelman, it was really a joy to work with him and to try different things and experiment.
Robert Trujillo Metallica -
'If your actions are motivated by selfish interests rather than God, you are mortgaging tomorrow's joy.'
T. B. Joshua -
Did my infancy succeed another age of mine that dies before it? Was it that which I spent within my mother's womb?... And what before that life again, O God of my joy, was I anywhere or in any body?
Saint Augustine
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Jazz, to me, is one of the inherent expressions of Negro life in America: the eternal tom-tom beating in the Negro soul - the tom-tom of revolt against weariness in a white world, a world of subway trains, and work, work, work; the tom-tom of joy and laughter, and pain swallowed in a smile.
Langston Hughes -
To-day, whatever may annoy,The word for me is Joy, just simple Joy.
John Kendrick Bangs -
The blessing of my mother is that she is so interested, she is so bright, she never complains - the joy of the Lord just bubbles out of her. Anybody who's in her presence is blessed to be there.
Anne Graham Lotz -
Karaoke was my family's happy secret. In those early years in America, like many immigrants, my parents struggled with poverty and loneliness, but they also built provisional families, and inside our bubble there was joy, understanding, an intimate language I could never translate - and above all there was song.
Jenny Zhang