Joy Quotes

• Persuasion is effected through the medium of the hearers, when they shall have been brought to a state of excitement under the influence of speech; for we do not, when influenced by pain or joy, or partiality or dislike, award our decisions in the same way; about which means of persuasion alone, I declare that the system-mongers of the present day busy themselves.

  

  Aristotle
  • Present
  • Decisions
  • Excitement

• Well, I don't think everything necessarily that I touch turns to gold, but I think I get great joy out of it regardless of whether it is successful or not.

  

  Kenny Rogers
  • Great
  • Joy
  • Gold

• I'm no expert. I have no psychic powers, and I sure don't possess any secret wisdom. I'm just Janet. I have strengths, weaknesses, fears, happiness, sadness. I experience joy and I experience pain. I'm highly emotional. I'm very vulnerable.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • Experience
  • Pain
  • Wisdom

• Joy Division finished the 1970s on a high. Our debut album, 'Unknown Pleasures,' was doing well; we'd just finished a hugely enjoyable and successful tour. The band's profile was higher than it had ever been, and it seemed to be growing by the day.

  

  Bernard Sumner New Order
  • High
  • Growing
  • Band

• When I design, I always pull from things that are significant to me. In my work, I search for happiness and then try to convey that joy in the clothes.

  

  Jeremy Scott
  • Work
  • Design
  • Search

• I think all the songs at Moth are about different things, but if we were to speak about it as a whole, it's really about, it's about joy, and about sensuality and vulnerability and also fun, energy, living in New York in 2015, being out of control, wanting to be in control, failing! It's a sort of story of our lives.

  

  Caroline Polachek Chairlift
  • Different
  • Thinking
  • Fun

• When people in stadiums do the Wave, it's the group-mind collective organism spontaneously organizing itself to express an emotion, pass time, and reflect the joy of seeing the rhythms of many as one, a visual rhyming or music in which everyone senses where the motion is going.

  

  Jerry Saltz
  • People
  • Time
  • Music

• When we are centered in joy, we attain our wisdom.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Joy
  • Wisdom
  • Centered

• While some people are apprehensive that meditation may conflict with their beliefs, the usual experience is that it leads to a heightened appreciation of their particular religious leanings and a greater level of personal joy

  

  Ian Gawler
  • People
  • May
  • Experience

• For every moment of joy Every hour of fear For every winding road that brought me here For every breath, for every day of living This is my Thanksgiving...

  

  Don Henley The Eagles
  • Fear
  • Moment
  • Hour

• Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.

  

  Leo Tolstoy
  • Joy

• 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
  • People
  • World
  • Happy

• With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Age
  • Happiness
  • Laughter

• Negative thinking patterns can be immensely deceptive and persuasive, and change is rarely easy. But with patience and persistence, I believe that nearly all individuals suffering from depression can improve and experience a sense of joy and self-esteem once again.

  

  David D. Burns
  • Believe
  • Thinking
  • Experience

• Love is the fire that warms our lives with unparalleled joy and divine hope. Love should be our walk and our talk.

  

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf
  • Hope
  • Joy
  • Fire

• Plant flowers in others' gardens and your life becomes a bouquet! Submitted by Lisa Letto, Coordinator, Nutrition Resource and Volunteer Centre, College of Pharmacy and Nutrition, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatchewan, Canada I slept and I dreamed that life is all joy, I woke and I saw that life is all service. I served and I saw that service is joy.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Life
  • College
  • Service

• We do not hate, nor grieve, nor joy, nor despair in our thirties like we did in our teens. Disappointment does not suggest suicide, and we quaff success without intoxication.

  

  Jerome K. Jerome
  • Success
  • Hate
  • Suicide

• I hope life treats you kind And I hope you have all you've dreamed of. And I wish to you, joy and happiness. But above all this, I wish you love.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Life
  • Hope
  • Wish

• Every night is a joy; you get an hour and a half of all these hits. It's a lot of fun.

  

  Phil Collen Def Leppard
  • Night
  • Joy
  • Hits

• Sadly, this picture [ Joy] does not go from strength to strength. It sinks into a morass of tedious obstacles to this woman's success. Joy the person may be able to surmount all barriers, but the film with her name on it is not so fortunate.

  

  David O. Russell
  • May
  • Success
  • Film

• 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

• The momentary thrill of getting rarely equals the lasting joy of giving.

  

  William Arthur Ward
  • Giving
  • Thrill
  • Lasting

• Reading is a joy for my kids, and to swing in a hammock on a lazy summer day reading a good book just goes with summer.

  

  Marcia Gay Harden
  • Good
  • Book
  • Kids

• I have to confess that I have so rarely experienced triumph that I cannot claim to know it well enough to judge, but it seems to be at best a momentary joy followed instantly by sadness, and, then, of necessity, by wariness.

  

  Mark Helprin
  • Joy
  • Judge

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