Joy Quotes

• When doubts haunt me, when disappointments stare me in the face, and I see not one ray of hope on the horizon, I turn to Bhagavad-gita and find a verse to comfort me; and I immediately begin to smile in the midst of overwhelming sorrow. Those who meditate on the Gita will derive fresh joy and new meanings from it every day.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Joy
  • Sorrow
  • Disappointments

• As a singer, the biggest joy I have are the arrangements.

  

  Mel Torme
  • 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

• I don't believe in unconditional love. In fact, I think it's unwise. My love has had a condition that if ever my love keeps you from you, from your growing, and realizing your personal potential, then I must step aside. No one has the right to stand in the way of another's joy, development, or unique perceptions.

  

  Leo Buscaglia
  • Believe
  • Growing
  • Unique

• LSD wanted to tell me something. … It gave me an inner joy, an open mindedness, a gratefulness, open eyes and an internal sensitivity for the miracles of creation.

  

  Albert Hofmann
  • Eyes
  • Joy

• The feeling of exultant joy that there is anyone like that in the world. I shall never see him again, and he did not notice me, or would ever, but there is such a person alive, there is such a life, and I am here on this earth, in this age, to know it!

  

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh
  • Life
  • World
  • Age

• Reflection is the business of man; a sense of his state is his first duty: but who remembereth himself in joy? Is it not in mercy then that sorrow is allotted unto us?

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Men
  • Reflection
  • Sorrow

• This is it no more fun the death of all joy has come.

  

  Jim Morrison The Doors
  • Fun
  • Death
  • Joy

• The people who influence us are those who have stood unconsciously for the right thing. They are like the stars and the lilies, and the joy of God flows through them all the time.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • People
  • Time
  • God

• The pleasures that give most joy are the ones that most rarely come.

  

  Democritus
  • Joy

• When we look at a child, we see that sense of fullness, of intrinsic aliveness, of joy in being, is not the result of something else. There is value in just being oneself, it is not because of something one does or doesn't do. It is there in the beginning, when we are children, but slowly it gets lost.

  

  A. H. Almaas
  • Children
  • Lost
  • Value

• Cooking is at once child's play and adult joy. And cooking done with care is an act of love.

  

  Craig Claiborne
  • Play
  • Child
  • Cooking

• God makes it really clear that society and civilization is really held together by the glue of families... When a man and a woman come together and say 'I do,' they are committing for a lifetime to love each other and to model what love is and what forgiveness is and what joy is to their kids.

  

  Kirk Cameron
  • God
  • Kids
  • Together

• A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty.

  

  David Hume
  • Real
  • Hope
  • Fear

• When Nelson Mandela walked free, the world sang with joy. Ever since, South Africa has stood as a beacon of hope for Africa.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • World
  • Hope
  • Free

• I would like to stress that the obligation of being Queen has always been driven by joy. The joy is rooted in the warmth that has met me and my family everywhere through every year, in celebration and joy as in sorrow, in the so-called 'big days', as well as in everyday life.

  

  Margrethe II of Denmark
  • Life
  • Family
  • Everyday

• Anything that activates the joy center in the brain makes you happy, and therefore protects you. Oddly enough, that's what they do in 'Harry Potter': The nurse gives the kids chocolates when they've been near the Dementors!

  

  Jane Siberry
  • Kids
  • Happy
  • Brain

• And I leave you now, not with sadness but with satisfaction and joy that we came together and walked, arm in arm, through this brief moment of eternity. Who could ask for more?

  

  Og Mandino
  • Together
  • Joy

• I'm very proud of New Order and Joy Division, that heritage of songs.

  

  Bernard Sumner Bad Lieutenant
  • Proud
  • Joy

• My wife has brought great beauty into my life. And my daughter has brought me nothing but joy. Those qualities were greatly lacking.

  

  Christopher Meloni
  • Life
  • Great
  • Wife

• When my husband and I first got married, I was so shocked at my own level of joy that I was convinced it was all going to come crashing down.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Joy
  • Husband
  • First

• I am one of the new characters in the brand new series of 'Postman Pat.' It has been a joy to do.

  

  Archie Panjabi
  • Joy

• We plucked down all His altars, left not oneSave where, perchance (and ah, the joy was fleet),We laid our garlands in the sunAt the white Sea-born's feet.

  

  Alfred Noyes
  • Joy
  • Sea

• With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Age
  • Happiness
  • Laughter

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