Joy Quotes - Page 36

• John B. Tabb / Poet

Alas! dear Joy, the merriest, is dead. But I have wed Peace ; and our babe, a boy, New-born, is Joy.

• John Assaraf / Author

I drive a lot of joy from being able to help others and helping put them on the path that they want.

• Victor Hugo / Poet

These are true felicities. No joy beyond these joys. Love is the only ecstasy, everything else weeps

• Mark Hart / Christian Speaker, Author

Christ always calls us to life and constantly to greater joy, but rarely does He call us to comfort.

• Henri Rousseau / Artist

The happiest is he who suffers the least pain; the most miserable, he who enjoys the least pleasure.

• Gaston Bachelard / Philosopher

Air is the very substance of our freedom, the substance of superhuman joy.... aerial joy is freedom.

• Patricia Arquette / Film Actress

There's no doubt that there's a struggling in birth, and a beauty and a horror and fear and joy too.

• Anne Frank / Author

I hid myself within myself ... and quietly wrote down all my joys, sorrows and contempt in my diary.

• Jack Kerouac / Novelist

The more ups and downs, the more joy I feel. The greater the fear, the greater the happiness I feel.

• Lev Yashin / Soccer Player

The joy of seeing Yuri Gagarin flying in space is only superseded by the joy of a good penalty save.

• Akira Yoshizawa / Origamist

Geometry alone is not enough to portray human desires, expressions, aspirations, joys. We need more.

• Mother Teresa / Saint

A joyful heart is the normal result of a heart burning with love. She gives most who gives with joy.

• George Thorogood / Vocalist

On the day I was born, the nurses gathered around, to gaze in wide wonder at the joy they had found.

• Pope Francis /

A Christian is never bored or sad. Rather, the one who loves Christ is full of joy and radiates joy.

• Sri Sri Ravi Shankar / Spiritual Leader

If you are a taker of happiness you get misery, if you are a giver of happiness you get joy and love.

• Thomas Carlyle / Philosopher

A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.

• Joseph Wood Krutch / Writer

If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.

• Tobias Wolff / Author

There's a joy in writing short stories, a wonderful sense of reward when you pull certain things off.

• Susan L. Taylor / Editor

Any joy, creativity or wisdom our next moment brings will ensue from the way we live our present one.

• Alan Seeger / Poet

At Earth's great market where Joy is trafficked in, Buy while thy purse yet swells with golden Youth.

• Dan Colen / Artist

All of these mechanisms we have for celebrating are so double-edged. So much sorrow comes out of joy.

• Adoniram Judson / Missionary

Thanks be to God, not--only for 'rivers of endless joys above, but for 'rills of comfort here below.'

• Gautama Buddha / Founding Figure

Once you know the nature of anger and joy is empty and you let them go, you free yourself from karma.

• Carol Emshwiller / Writer

May we all soon go about as our real selves and take joy in it, saying, yes, yes, to whatever we are.

• Rabindranath Tagore / Author

And joy is everywhere; it is in the earth's green covering of grass; in the blue serenity of the sky.

• Torkom Saraydarian / Author

The future, higher evolution will belong to those who live in joy, who share joy, and who spread joy.

• Oscar Wilde / Writer

A virtuous abstinence from the joys of pederasty comes most easily to those who have no taste for it.

• Sara Teasdale / Poet

Joy was a flame in me Too steady to destroy. Lithe as a bending reed, Loving the storm that sways her

• Patricia Briggs / Writer

She tried to imagine what Charles would do if another man came up to him and said, "You bring me joy.

• Anthony Ray Hinton /

I have too much to live for to allow a bunch of cowards to take my joy. I refuse to give them my joy.

• Charles Stross / Writer

Time is a corrosive fluid, dissolving motivation, destroying novelty, and leaching the joy from life.

• Frederick Tennyson / Poet

Softly the loud peal dies, In passing winds it drowns, But breathes, like perfect joys, Tender tones.

• William Shakespeare / Poet

My joy is death- Death, at whose name I oft have been afeard, Because I wish'd this world's eternity.

• Diane Ackerman / Author

Nature is also great fun. To pretend that nature isn't fun is to miss much of the joy of being alive.

• Guru Nanak / Sikh Guru

Sing the songs of joy to the Lord, serve the Name of the Lord, and become the servant of His servants.

• Ernest Holmes / Writer

Life is not just something to be endured. It is to be lived in joy, in a fullness without limit (p.82)

• Robert Farrar Capon / Author

Every real thing is a joy, if only you have eyes and ears to relish it, a nose and tongue to taste it.

• Richard Bach / Writer

The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.

• Ovid / Poet

Every delay that postpones our joys, is long. [Lat., Longa mora est nobis omnis, quae gaudia differt.]

• R. Buckminster Fuller / Architect

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

• Marc Gafni / Author

Joy is realized as the natural by-product of the passionate pursuit of something other than happiness.

• Jane Austen / Novelist

She was sensible and clever, but eager in everything; her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation.

• T. B. Joshua / Pastor

If your actions are motivated by selfish interests rather than God, you are mortgaging tomorrow's joy.

• Ralph Marston / Football Player

What a joy it is that the road ahead is an uphill climb. For where it leads is all the way to the top.

• William Wordsworth / Poet

O joy! that in our embers Is something that doth live, That nature yet remembers What was so fugitive!

• Jiddu Krishnamurti / Writer

It is only when the mind is free from the old that it meets everything anew, and in that there is joy.

• Nancy Farmer / Author

But I also know that to ignore joy while it lasts, in favor of lamenting one's fate, is a great crime.

• Tom Robbins / Author

Hard times and funky living can season the soul, true enough, but joy is the yeast that makes it rise.

• Thomas S. Monson / Author

Let us relish life as we live it, find joy in the journey, and share our love with family and friends.

• Norman Vincent Peale / Author

Christmas is the season of joy, of holiday greetings exchanged, of gift-giving,and of families united.