Joy Quotes

• It is my greatest joy to live a really good part, even though it imposes great strain. An artist is tired but proud when he has created a great work of art. So it is with the actor who really lives a great role and is proud of the part he played.

  

  Conrad Veidt
  • Good
  • Work
  • Great

• They kissed each other with a deep joy. What greater thing is there for two human souls, than to feel that they are joined for life - to strengthen each other in all labour, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to each other in all pain, to be one with each other in silent unspeakable memories at the moment of the last parting?

  

  George Eliot
  • Life
  • Pain
  • Rest

• One's emotions are intensified in Paris—one can be more happy and also more unhappy here than in any other place. But it is always a positive source of joy to live here, and there is nobody so miserable as a Parisian in exile from his town.

  

  Jessica Mitford
  • Happy
  • Emotions
  • Parisian

• I think what we owe each other is a celebration of life and to replace fear and hopelessness with fearlessness and joy.

  

  Vandana Shiva
  • Life
  • Fear
  • Celebration

• I did find Calypso hotdog - but only once, far in the depths of the very wildest of Canadian dark woods, near those high, cold, moss-covered swamps. … I felt as if I were in the presence of superior beings who loved me and beckoned me to come. I sat down beside them and wept for joy.

  

  John Muir
  • High
  • Dark
  • Cold

• My own experience and development deepen everyday my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.

  

  George Eliot
  • May
  • Experience
  • Suffering

• Why do what you will regret? Why bring tears upon yourself? Do only what you do not regret, And fill yourself with joy.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Joy
  • Tears
  • Regret

• The Marvel world is a pure joy to be a part of.

  

  Cobie Smulders
  • World
  • Joy

• When a loved one disappears, you continue to live with the accompaniment of that person. One has to find a balance between joy and sorrow.

  

  Philippe Petit
  • Live
  • Joy
  • Balance

• I had no fear of the stream's perils, and I listened with the greatest contentment to the quiet slap of water on rocks, the running whisper of the current, and the taps and creaks and croaks that rose with the mist around me. Overhead swing the glittering stars, and the bright moon shone down and lit the curling ripples of the water. At no time in my life had I been in greater danger from the elements, and yet if I learned that heaven is such as that night was, I should deem it a joy worth the dying.

  

  Clare B. Dunkle
  • Night
  • Running
  • Water

• Instead of looking for the success in your life, look for the thing that is going to bring you the greatest joy.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
  • Success
  • Joy

• I have a heart with room for every joy.

  

  Philip James Bailey
  • Heart
  • Joy
  • Room

• It's been an adventure just getting out to Saturn, .. Saturn is such an alluring photographic target. It's a joy, really, to be able to take our images and composite them in an artful way, which is one of my cardinal working goals. It's about poetry and beauty and science all mixed together.

  

  Carolyn Porco
  • Together
  • Goal
  • Adventure

• Singing is the thing apart from my family that gives me the most joy in the world. I don't ever spend a day without singing.

  

  Maria Doyle Kennedy
  • World
  • Family
  • Singing

• If anyone should want to know my name, I am called Leah. And I spend all my time weaving garlands of flowers with my fair hands, t o please me when I stand before the mirror; my sister Rachel sits all the day long before her own, and never moves away. She loves to contemplate her lovely eyes; I love to use my hands to adorn myself: her joy is in reflection, mine in act.

  

  Dante Alighieri
  • Mirror
  • I Love
  • Knowing

• 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.

  

  Barbara Marciniak
  • Time
  • Love
  • Courage

• I've worked with Nails Inc. for years, and it's been a joy. I love their products. I have two baskets of Nails Inc. polishes upside down to read the names, colour coded.

  

  Poppy Delevingne
  • Joy

• Where there is the Infinite there is joy. There is no joy in the finite. —THE CHANDOGYA UPANISHAD

  

  Charles Seife
  • Infinite
  • Finite
  • No Joy

• The wretched are in this respect fortunate, that they have the strongest yearning after happiness; and to desire is in some sense to enjoy.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Desire
  • Happiness
  • Enjoy

• There is only one way to bring peace to the heart, joy to the mind, and beauty to the life; it is to accept and do the will of God.

  

  William Barclay
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Accepting

• The end of consumerism and accumulation is the beginning of the joy of living.

  

  Vandana Shiva
  • Joy
  • Beginning

• For many women - myself included - pregnancy brings on tremendous anxiety and confusion, along with the joy.

  

  Emily Oster
  • Women
  • Anxiety
  • Pregnancy

• Judgment is very easy, but I think, on the whole, professional critics maybe see too much, and compare too much, and forget the joy of actually looking and contemplating for its own sake.

  

  Antony Gormley
  • Joy
  • Professional

• In life, there are no shortcuts to joy. Anything that is worth pursuing requires us to suffer just a little bit.

  

  Chris Burkard
  • Suffer
  • Worth
  • Pursuing

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