Joy Quotes

• When I was younger, I looked at getting older as this process of getting less interested in things and becoming colder, and of finding less joy in the mystery of things. And I've found the exact opposite to be true. I find that I'm getting warmer, and that I'm more mystified by human interactions.

  

  Jon Brion
  • True
  • Joy

• In the Woodstock movie, you see Justin, my son, who is now a filmmaker, being carried off by my wife at the time to the helicopter. He's just this little bundle of joy in her arms. And it's 1969.

  

  Bill Kreutzmann Grateful Dead
  • Time
  • Movie
  • Wife

• For millions, Roger Ebert will be remembered as a writer and television personality who brought a sense of passion and excellence to his craft. For me, he is a man who fused joy and courage as few others ever have. My life was enriched by having such a friend; it is poorer for losing such a friend.

  

  Jeff Greenfield
  • Life
  • Friend
  • Passion

• 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

• If we will build righteous traditions in our families, the light of the gospel can grow ever brighter in the lives of our children from generation to generation. We can look forward to that glorious day when we will all be united together as eternal family units to reap the everlasting joy promised by our Eternal Father for His righteous children.

  

  L. Tom Perry
  • Children
  • Family
  • Together

• At the highest level of awareness, the greatest gift given and received when you give someone flowers, is the joy of living a life based on love.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Life
  • Awareness
  • Received

• Part of the joy of looking at art is getting in sync in some ways with the decision-making process that the artist used and the record that's embedded in the work.

  

  Chuck Close
  • Work
  • Art
  • Decision

• Whoever commits to paper what he suffers becomes a melancholy author: but he becomes a serious author when he tells us what he suffered and why he now reposes in joy.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Joy
  • Suffer
  • Melancholy

• I can honestly say I am the luckiest man around to be able to have worked at a job I love for so many years. It's truly been a joy for me.

  

  Carl Kasell
  • Job
  • Joy

• 'Trading Places' did more for my career than anything I'd ever done. It was a zonking great hit, and it was also just a joy to do.

  

  Denholm Elliott
  • Great
  • Done
  • Career

• I place us where we are a happy couple who are madly in love, and we are kissing the way people kiss on their wedding day. With joy and relief and love. Without guilt. Without Shame.

  

  Amy Sarig King
  • People
  • Happy
  • Couple

• Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing.

  

  Phil Jackson
  • Important
  • Real
  • Experience

• My life at home gives me absolute joy. There are some days when, as soon as you've finished cooking breakfast and cleaning up the kitchen, it's time to start lunch, and by the time you've done that, you're doing dinner and thinking, 'There has to be a menu we can order from.'

  

  Julia Roberts
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• See golden days, fruitful of golden deeds, With joy and love triumphing.

  

  John Milton
  • Golden
  • Fruitful
  • Triumphing

• Jesus lived a life that was full of joy and contradictions and fights, you know? If they were to paint a picture of Jesus without contradictions, the gospels would be fake, but the contradictions are a sign of authenticity.

  

  Paulo Coelho
  • Life
  • Jesus
  • Picture

• Yes, all my illusions will burn into illumination of joy, and all my desires ripen into fruits of love.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Desire
  • Joy
  • Illumination

• The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.

  

  Christopher McCandless
  • Life
  • Different
  • Sun

• Most REAL change is slow. Happiness and joy are the purpose of life. If we know that the future will be very dark or painful, then we lose our determination to live. Therefore, life is something based on hope.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Life
  • Live
  • Real

• Labour without joy is base. Labour without sorrow is base. Sorrow without labour is base. Joy without labour is base.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Joy

• When the shadow of death blots out my joy And erases the face of the sun Give me strength to endure, hope to believe That living and dying are one.

  

  William Wallace
  • Believe
  • Giving
  • Shadow

• We can't wait until everything is OK-with us or with the rest of the world-to feel thankful, or we will never experience joy at all.

  

  M. J. Ryan
  • World
  • Experience
  • Rest

• If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in.

  

  Rachel Carson
  • World
  • Live
  • Wonder

• Pleasure usually takes the form of me and now; joy is us and always.

  

  Marvin J. Ashton
  • Joy

• 'Grigory Petrovitch, let us weep, let us weep with joy!' he said in a thin voice, and then at once burst out laughing in a loud bass guffaw. 'Ho-ho-ho! This is a fine daughter-in-law for you too! Everything is in its place in her; all runs smoothly, no creaking, the mechanism works well, lots of screws in it.'

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • Law
  • Joy
  • Daughter

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