Joy Quotes

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Oh who can tell the range of joy
Or set the bounds of beauty?

I know that life is a doorway to eternity, and yet my heart so often gets lost in petty anxieties. It forgets the great way home that lies before it. Unprepared, given over to childish trivialities, it could be taken by surprise when the great hour comes and find that, for the sake of piffling pleasures, the one great joy has been missed. I am aware of this, but my heart is not. It seems unteachable; it continues its dreaming … always wavering between joy and depression.

The source of one's joy is also often the source of one's sorrow.

There may be Peace without Joy, and Joy without Peace, but the two combined make Happiness.

There are few joys to compare with the telling of a well-told tale.

Charles de Lint

I find, in being black, a thing of beauty: a joy; a strength; a secret cup of gladness.

In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.

Henry Ward Beecher

In the vastness of space and the immensity of time, it is my joy to share a planet and an epoch with Annie.

Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

To him who devotes his life to science nothing can give more happiness than increasing the number of discoveries, but his cup of joy is full when the results of his studies immediately find practical applications.

A Dionysian life task needs the hardness of the hammer and one of its first essentials is without doubt the joy to be found even in destruction.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Appreciate how rare and full of potential your situation is in this world, then take joy in it, and use it to your best advantage.

Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama

It means that God's Creation has not its source in any necessity; it comes from his fullness of joy; it is his love that creates, therefore in Creation is his own revealment.

Rabindranath Tagore

I have wrought my simple plan If I give one hour of joy To the boy who's half a man, Or the man who's half a boy.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Must we always talk for victory, and never once for truth, for comfort, and joy?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The plants... are the plainest speech of the earth; every new leaf, every remarkable flower is some mystery which is trying to reveal itself, and which remains motionless and dumb only because from very joy and love it can neither move nor speak.

Artisans, bureaucrats, that's what we writers are! The joys of creation! Novels dashed off in ecstasy in three weeks! Nonsense! Three thousand pages botched and wasted in order to produce two hundred and fifty polished ones.

This communicating of a man's self to his friend works two contrary effects; for it redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half.

What lasts in the reader's mind is not the phrase but the effect the phrase created: laughter, tears, pain, joy. If the phrase is not affecting the reader, what's it doing there? Make it do its job or cut it without mercy or remorse.

What is required of us is that we love the difficult and learn to deal with it. In the difficult are the friendly forces, the hands that work on us. Right in the difficult we must have our joys, our happiness, our dreams: there against the depth of this background, they stand out, there for the first time we see how beautiful they are.

Rainer Maria Rilke

In truth, the most important thing for curing illnesses and maintaining health is good humor and joy.

René Descartes

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

When we hear that Christ was made a curse for us, let us believe it with joy and assurance. By faith Christ changes places with us. He gets our sins, we get His holiness.

As soon as the soul has been made to perceive that a thing can conduct it to that which it loves supremely, it must inevitably embrace it with joy.

Joy must be one of the pivots of our life. It is the token of a generous personality. Sometimes it is also a mantle that clothes a life of sacrifice and self-giving. A person who has this gift often reaches high summits. He or she is like sun in a community.