Joy Quotes

When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy, And the dimpling stream runs laughing by; When the air does laugh with our merry wit, And the green hill laughs with the noise of it.
Lord Byron

Laugh, Voice, Green

God's plan for enlarging His kingdom is so simple - one person telling another about the Savior. Yet we're busy and full of excuses. Just remember, someone's eternal destiny is at stake. The joy you'll have when you meet that person in heaven will far exceed any discomfort you felt in sharing the gospel.
Charles Stanley

God, Simple, Someone

It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion; it is a joy of every moment.
Honore de Balzac

Woman, Fashion, Moment

Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.
Hosea Ballou

Rain, Summer, Tears

When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.
Maxim Gorky

Life, Work, Pleasure

Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how.
James Russell Lowell

Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.
Carl Sandburg

Keep, Hands, Reach

Use those talents you have. You will make it. You will give joy to the world. Take this tip from nature: The woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except those who sang best.
Bernard Meltzer

Nature, Best, Give

Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.
Henry A. Kissinger

Art, Expression, Labor

When you're happy you find pure joy in your life. There are no regrets in this state of happiness - and that's a goal worth striving for in all areas of your life.
Suze Orman

Life, Happiness, Happy

We never taste a perfect joy; our happiest successes are mixed with sadness.
Pierre Corneille

Sadness, Perfect, Happiest

Discovering the 'impossible' ending to a new book makes me sick with joy and relief.
Chuck Palahniuk

Book, Impossible, Sick

I have no name: I am but two days old. What shall I call thee? I happy am, Joy is my name. Sweet joy befall thee!
William Blake

Happy, Two, Old

For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Happiness, Spring, Flower

Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
Honore de Balzac

Sorrow, Bear, Harder

We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone - but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.
Walter Anderson

Love, Trust, Someone

Gratitude changes the pangs of memory into a tranquil joy.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Gratitude, Memory, Changes

Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.
P. J. O'Rourke

Politics, Hope, Failure

I love my children beyond all reason. They're my joy, even when they're wild with kid energy.
Christopher Meloni

Love, Children, Energy

The real joy is in constructing a sentence. But I see myself as an actor first because writing is what you do when you are ready and acting is what you do when someone else is ready.
Steve Martin

Someone, Writing, Real

Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You can't put on make-up, or dress yourself, or do you hair with any sort of fun or joy if you're doing it from a position of correction.
Kevyn Aucoin

Beauty, Fun, Yourself

We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.
E. B. White

Long, Run, Laundry

Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
William Butler Yeats

Knows, Obstacles, Triumph

To the scientist there is the joy in pursuing truth which nearly counteracts the depressing revelations of truth.
H. P. Lovecraft

Truth, Depressing, Scientist

I can see the humorous side of things and enjoy the fun when it comes; but look where I will, there seems to me always more sadness than joy in life.
Jerome K. Jerome

Life, Fun, Sadness

Whoever loves above all the approach of love will never know the joy of attaining it.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Love, Above, Loves

Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it; that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one.
Andre Gide

Beauty, Today, Mind

Pilots take no special joy in walking. Pilots like flying.
Neil Armstrong

Special, Walking, Flying

Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.
Jean Paul

Evening, Down, Dew

The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.
Stendhal

Work, Art, Alone

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