The gloom of the world is but a shadow; behind it, yet within our reach, is joy. Take joy.

Seeing the world through the eyes of a child is the purest joy that anyone can experience.

I call for a collective adventure in generalized joy and freely interdependent exuberance.

So few the grains of happiness measured against all the dark and still the scales balance.

The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in a time of pain or joy.

Keep puffing on the bubble until it breaks its confining walls and becomes the sea of joy.

Love sweetens pain; and when one loves God, one suffers for His sake with joy and courage.

Most of my work is comedy; it's meant to inspire empathy in people and help them find joy.

You are certainly one of the joys of life for all who have ever come within a mile of you.

Setting is my primary joy as a writer, building a world and watching people respond to it.

Defeat is for the valiant. Only they will know the honor of losing and the joy of winning.

Pools of sorrow waves of joy are drifting thorough my open mind possessing and caressing m

Work is my joy... Work is my therapy, I don't know anybody who loves work as much as I do.

Every cell in your body is seeking fulfillment through joy, beauty, love and appreciation.

The more you give yourself to others, the more joy and peace will flow into your own life.

... in the long run, there can be no joy for anybody until there is joy finally for us all

My only joys therefore are that when God has given me a work to do, I have not refused it.

You'll never experience the joy and tenderness of a lifelong love unless you fight for it.

Silence is the perfectest herault of joy. I were but little happy if I could say how much.

Joy isn't grounded in our circumstances; it is grounded in the unchanging character of God.

Be full of sorrow, that you may become hill of joy; weep, that you may break into laughter.

To no man make yourself a boon companion: Your joy will be less but less will be your grief

The best way to secure future happiness is to be as happy as is rightfully possible to-day.

The feeling of love is a rich feeling, but the expression of love in word or deed is a joy.

Joy is not an alternative to opposition; it is part of a compound that includes opposition.

I learned that gratitude is the best feeling I would ever have, the ultimate joy of living.

When our lives are filled with peace, faith and joy, people will want to know what we have.

Even his griefs are a joy long after to one that remembers all that he wrought and endured.

Fly with me, touch the face of the true God. And then cry with joy at the depth of my love.

Joy lies in the fight, in the attempt, in the suffering involved, not in the victory itself

I can't imagine my life without my kids. Raising them has been the greatest joy in my life.

The very nature of Joy makes nonsense of our common distinction between having and wanting.

Where others see but the dawn coming over the hill, I see the soul of God shouting for joy.

Sometimes we become so focused on the finish line, that we fail to find joy in the journey.

Gratitude is the joy that arises in response to God’s good will toward us in all his gifts.

It is sufficient for you that the one who envies you is distressed at the time of your joy.

Life and love would go on. Even though it would happen without me, the idea brought me joy.

Once the joy of intimacy with God has been experienced, life becomes unbearable without it.

Peace is joy at rest. Joy is peace on its feet. quoting her pastor in Salon, April 25, 2003

To pursue joy is to lose it. The only way to get it is to follow steadily the path of duty.

It's the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy.

Humility accepts the very nature of a human being is complete, unadulterated, ecstatic joy.

When people doubt your abilities, the greatest joy on earth is making them eat their words.

Do not look for joy anywhere else. It is living in you, and gives meaning to all Existence.

She, as no other ever could, reached every corner of his heart. His joy, and his salvation.

If thou do ill, the joy fades, not the pains. If well, the pain doth fade, the joy remains.

There may be peace without joy, and joy without peace, but the two combined make happiness.

I believe if we can wait long enough that every honorable sorrow will become a kind of joy.

Both the ancestry and posterity of Grief go further than the ancestry and posterity of Joy.

The greatest thing that will please God is that you maintain an attitude of unshakable joy.

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