Joy Quotes
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
Don't lie to me! Don't seem so normal when I know you have cut yourself off from me in your heart! If you can put on our affectionate closeness like a mask, then I'll never be able to take joy in it again.
Orson Scott Card
Here's the truth about telling stories with your life. It's going to sound like a great idea, and you're going to get excited about it, and then when it comes time to do the work, you're not going to want to do it. It's like that with writing books, and it's like that with life. People love to have lived a great story, but few people like the work it takes to make it happen. But joy costs pain.
Donald Miller
The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just recently fallen in love is undisguisable.
John Cheever
Loving and parenting a dog as a single parent can create all sorts of new and unusual problems, but also new sources of joy.
Jenna Morasca
As I look out there and see the culture of baseball, a lot of blacks and Latins, it's given me a lot of joy to know that Jackie started that. If Jackie hadn't come in '47, me and Ron Santo wouldn't have played in Double-A and all those years in the big leagues.
Billy Williams
I still paint. I love the joy that color can give to our lives and to our communities. I try to bring something of the artist in me to my politics.
Edi Rama
Ultimately, the joy of sports is social and psychological, both in the ballpark and around a television on Super Bowl Sunday.
Mary Pilon
When I come out of my dressing room, I go to my heart and say a little prayer and go out on stage. There I am, coming to lift you up and to motivate you. I want to bring joy. It's gospel, and gospel is the truth. It's what I do. I'm going to bring you the truth and lift up your spirit.
Mavis Staples
I have a faithful joy and a joy that is lost. One is like a rose, the other, a thorn. The one that was stolen I have not lost.
Gabriela Mistral
From the great trees the locusts cry In quavering ecstatic duo-a boy Shouts a wild call-a mourning dove In the blue distance sobs-the wind Wanders by, heavy with odors Of corn and wheat and melon vines; The trees tremble with delirious joy as the breeze Greets them, one by one-now the oak Now the great sycamore, now the elm.
Hamlin Garland
I find, in being black, a thing of beauty: a joy; a strength; a secret cup of gladness.
Ossie Davis
The year has held its ups and downs for me; I'm sure it has for you, too. I'm counting on the year ending on a note of joy (and gingerbread!) and look forward to a new year brimming with promise and peace.
Kirby Larson
If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive.
Eleonora Duse
'Freedom' awakens your rage against everything that is not you; 'egoism' calls you to joy over yourselves, to self-enjoyment.
Max Stirner
The highest earthly enjoyments are but a shadow of the joy I find in reading God's Word.
Lady Jane Grey
Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.
Mahatma Gandhi
Every device there is in language is there to be used, if you will. Poets have got to enjoy themselves sometimes, and the twistings and convolutions of words, the inventions and contrivances, are all part of the joy that is part of the painful, voluntary work.
Dylan Thomas
