Joy Quotes

• We have been so long in a downward spin, the angels are calling us up. We are meant to fly and with our spirits we can. We are meant to ascend, to transmute the negative mass of the worlds corrupted thought forms. No one asked us to stay so long away from heaven, away from joy.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Up
  • Long
  • Heaven

• Begin to build up confidence and joy in your own richness. That richness is the essence of generosity. It is the essence of resourcefulness ; that you can deal with whatever is available around you and not feel poverty stricken.

  

  Chogyam Trungpa
  • Up
  • Confidence
  • Poverty

• Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • You
  • Joy
  • Hands

• Part of the reason I joined Joy Division was so that I really wouldn't have to grow up.

  

  Bernard Sumner Bad Lieutenant
  • Up
  • Joy

• My literary heroes were mostly women writers and thinkers - Joy Williams, Joan Didion, Anne Sexton, June Jordan, Sarah Schulman, Audre Lorde, Cherrie Moraga, Christa Wolf - and much of this writing was political as well as literary.

  

  Alexander Chee
  • Writing
  • Women
  • Political

• 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

• I like the joy when you feed people and they're happy and full and enjoying themselves.

  

  Keshia Knight Pulliam
  • People
  • Happy
  • Joy

• If I'm bringing joy to people and entertaining people as an actor, then I should be grateful for that and act accordingly, you know?

  

  Ellen Pompeo
  • People
  • Joy

• There is no joy equal to that of being able to work for all humanity and doing what you're doing well.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Work
  • Humanity
  • Able

• When I read out loud in class, it was a joy for everyone else because I would mispronounce things so badly. I used to try to count how many people were in front of me and then work out which paragraph I would have to read out and start trying to learn it. And I would sit there thinking, 'Please let the bell go so that it doesn't get round to me.'

  

  James William Middleton
  • People
  • Work
  • Thinking

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

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Joy
  • Wisdom
  • Centered

• Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Life
  • Joy
  • Sense

• Perhaps in nearly every joy, as certainly in every pleasure, cruelty has its place.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Place
  • Pleasure
  • Cruelty

• Why did children seem to be so often spontaneous, joy-filled and concentrated while adults seemed controlled, anxiety-filled and diffused? It was the Goddam sense of having a self.

  

  Luke Rhinehart
  • Children
  • Why
  • Anxiety

• Paris just exudes love and romance and, for me personally, hope and joy and faith, too; it just means so much to me. That place made me feel so happy and so safe, and my spirit was just so full of joy.

  

  Ally Brooke Fifth Harmony
  • Happy
  • Hope
  • Faith

• That's the joy of art - it should be dangerous and challenging but it's just art - it's safe.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Art
  • Joy
  • Dangerous

• One of the greatest joys of doing 'Comic Book Men' - I was so thankful - was that my wife Carol was able to appear with me. Being able to share that experience with Carol was such a monumental joy for me.

  

  George Perez
  • Men
  • Experience
  • Book

• Joy, confidence, and security can't begin until we are able to just be ourselves.

  

  Chelsea Manning
  • Joy
  • Confidence

• We need to discover all over again that worship is natural to the Christian, as it was to the godly Israelites who wrote the psalms, and that the habit of celebrating the greatness and graciousness of God yields an endless flow of thankfulness, joy, and zeal.

  

  J. I. Packer
  • God
  • Christian
  • Habit

• I'm so happy that James Baraz's AWAKENING JOY class is now available in book form. His class has been helpful to thousands of people. I plan to give it to all my clients who are struggling with creating a life of meaning and happiness. Joyfulness is our birthright. This book shows you how to reclaim it.

  

  M. J. Ryan
  • People
  • Life
  • Book

• I'm not a big believer in trying to jam stuff down somebody's throat: 'You're going to do it my way.' I'd rather show by example and live my life and have people say, 'You know what, I want to live like Joel has. He's got peace and joy, and he seems content.'

  

  Joel Osteen
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• It happens that all those who have something of mine, painting, mobile, or static statue, say that it makes them very happy. For example, children adore mobile statues and understand their meaning immediately. I have seen children, here in France, in America or in Great Britain, run and shout with joy in my exhibitions. They like it instinctively.

  

  Alexander Calder
  • Great
  • Children
  • America

• Live for today, but hold your hands open to tomorrow. Anticipate the future and its changes with joy. There is a seed of God's love in every event, every unpleasant situation in which you may find yourself.

  

  Barbara Johnson
  • God
  • Love
  • Future

• 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
  • Lost
  • Rose
  • Faithful

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