Joy Quotes
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When you think everything is someone else's fault, you will suffer a lot. When you realize that everything springs only from yourself, you will learn both peace and joy.
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Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
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Part of the joy of music is listening to lots of different kinds of music and learning from it. Specifically for me, I like writing songs that move me, and what moves me are beautiful songs on the piano or the guitar and really, really heavy music.
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Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow.
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I wanted to move away from Holland for my work because I felt that things would be better for me in England. But when I heard Joy Division's 'Unknown Pleasures', that pushed me towards making the move and making it real. I met them within 12 days of moving to England.
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Disappointment is a sticky one, because no one can steal contentment, joy, gratitude, or peace - we have to give it away.
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I think what we owe each other is a celebration of life and to replace fear and hopelessness with fearlessness and joy.
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Happiness is about what happens to you; and, to an extent, it's dependent on your circumstances, your behaviors, and your attitudes. But the joy of Christ is much, much bigger. The joy of Christ is about relationship with a person. It's something you have access to, but it's also something you must choose. Christian joy shows up not only in the happy times but also in times of trial and discouragement.
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Love and food are very similar in many ways. We can't survive without them, and they bring us great joy, and just as there is junk food, and you can become obese, there's also junk love.
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You are a set of deceitful scoundrels! But bless you! I give in. I will take Gildor's advice. If the danger were not so dark, I should dance for joy. Even so, I cannot help feeling happy; happier than I have felt for a long time.
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The greatest joys of life are happy memories. Your job is to create as many of them as possible.
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We resist Joy on this planet more than we resist war.
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Look for joy in your life; it's not always easy to find.
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I never thought it was fair for an 8-year-old child not to be able to afford shoes, or to wander the streets having to beg for money. To know that child's joy would end soon, when they realised there was no future.
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It’s a liberating experience to think of God as an Artist. The joy He felt in creation. The care that was taken in the formation of the cosmos. The thoughtfulness and energy it would take to sculpt the mountains…
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Over all, I want you to discover the joy of creation by your own hand. ... The possibility of creation from paper is infinite.
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The demand of the loveless and the self-imprisoned that they should be allowed to blackmail the universe: that till they consent to be happy (on their own terms) no one else shall taste joy: that theirs should be the final power; that Hell should be able to veto Heaven.
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Christ is sufficient. We do not need "support groups" for each and every separate tribulation. The most widely divergent sorrows may all be taken to the foot of the same old rugged cross and find there cleansing, peace, and joy.
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If we want to find happiness, let's stop thinking about gratitude or ingratitude and give for the inner joy of giving.
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Joy is a light that fills you with hope and faith and love.
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London, thou art the flower of cities all! Gemme of all joy, jasper of jocunditie.
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When great depths of unrelenting sorrow are punctuated by great peaks of joy and liberation, the result is delicious.
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Music has always been a great solace for me. It's still something that gives me far more joy than movies, I must say. I love movies, too. But somehow, music can transport you. There are so many different kinds of experiences you can have with music.
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It is time for you to make a commitment to create joy, creativity and love for yourself, only then will you benefit others, for if you do not evolve yourself, you do not serve others. By becoming a living example, by following what is in your heart, you show the way for others to follow with courage, what is in their hearts.
