Joy Quotes

• The conscious mind is the editor, and the subconscious mind is the writer. And the joy of writing, when you're writing from your subconscious, is beautiful - it's thrilling. When you're editing, which is your conscious mind, it's like torture.

  

  Steve Martin
  • Writing
  • Mind
  • Beautiful

• Now no joy but lacks salt .That is not dashed with pain and weariness and fault; I crave the stain Of tears, the aftermark Of almost too much love, The sweet of bitter bark And burning clove.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Joy
  • Pain
  • Weariness

• Always remember, joy is not incidental to spiritual quest. It is vital.

  

  Nachman of Breslov
  • Remember
  • Spiritual
  • Quests

• Her shoulders sagging, her back hunched, her eyelids tired, Rose-Anna sewed for the feast, not daring even to sing for fear of frightening off her joy.

  

  Gabrielle Roy
  • Fear
  • Tired
  • Rose

• I spent a lot of years trying to outrun or outsmart vulnerability by making things certain and definite, black and white, good and bad. My inability to lean into the discomfort of vulnerability limited the fullness of those important experiences that are wrought with uncertainty: Love, belonging, trust, joy, and creativity to name a few.

  

  Brené Brown
  • Good
  • Important
  • Trying

• There is no desire that anyone holds for any other reason than that they believe they will feel better in the achievement of it. Whether it is a material object, a physical state of being, a relationship, a condition, or a circumstance - at the heart of every desire is the desire to feel good. And so, the standard of success in life is not the things or the money - the standard of success is absolutely the amount of joy you feel.

  

  Esther Hicks
  • Believe
  • Heart
  • Desire

• When you sit in meditation, feel the joy in your soul.

  

  Ma Jaya
  • Soul
  • Joy
  • Meditation

• 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
  • Giving
  • Christian
  • Religious

• For quite a while, it didn't feel right. How could I feel joy when I lost the love of my life? I'm learning that those two things can co-exist. It will never be the same joy, but it doesn't mean there won't be joy.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • Life
  • Lost
  • Feel

• 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
  • Home
  • Faith
  • Joy

• I always had an inferiority complex, like I wasn't good enough. I was shy. But dancing gave me so much joy, and I was good at it. I felt like a whole person because I could dance.

  

  Patricia McBride
  • Good
  • Joy
  • Dance

• Joy is our goal, our destiny. We cannot know who we are except in joy. Not knowing joy, we do not know ourselves.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Joy
  • Goal
  • Destiny

• You have to create little pockets of joy in your life to take care of yourself.

  

  Jonathan Van Ness
  • Life
  • Joy

• I baked the coffee cake recipe from 'The Joy of Cooking' over and over again when I was a kid.

  

  Alex Guarnaschelli
  • Joy
  • Cooking
  • Coffee

• I have a tattoo of Joy Division on my chest, and I like One Direction.

  

  Jamie Blackley
  • Joy
  • Tattoo

• I certainly don't delude myself that there aren't certainly more important things to do in life than make people laugh, but I can't imagine anything that would bring me more joy.

  

  Bob Newhart
  • People
  • Life
  • Important

• For my whole career, I've been a singer-slash-songwriter, even though I'm very thankfully known for my voice. Songwriting has always been a joy in my life, and to be recognized for it is extremely validating.

  

  Jennifer Nettles Sugarland
  • Life
  • Career
  • Joy

• Until now I have never really lived! Life on earth is a creeping, crawling business. It is in the air that one feels the glory of being a man and of conquering the elements. There is an exquisite smoothness of motion and the joy of gliding through space. It is wonderful!

  

  Gabriele D'Annunzio
  • Life
  • Business
  • Earth

• The fun for me is to mix it all up. I would actually like to do something as far away from what I've just done, just for my own personal joy and growth, for what I want to do.

  

  Don Cheadle
  • Up
  • Done
  • Fun

• 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
  • Time
  • Morning
  • Color

• Way back when I was working at the dump, I saw that, even when living among the trash, that some people would decide to choose joy in their lives.

  

  Luis Alberto Urrea
  • People
  • Joy

• There’s a joy without canker or cark,There’s a pleasure eternally new,’T is to gloat on the glaze and the markOf china that’s ancient and blue.

  

  Andrew Lang
  • Joy
  • Blue

• Ah, life is a gate, a way, a path to Paradise anyway, why not live for fun and joy and love or some sort of girl by a fireside, why not go to your desire and LAUGH…

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Life
  • Live
  • Why

• There 's not a joy the world can give like that it takes away.

  

  Lord Byron
  • World
  • Joy

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