joy quotes

Some people would claim that things like love, joy and beauty belong to a different category from science and can’t be described in scientific terms, but I think they can now be explained by the theory of evolution.

Real joy seems to me almost as unlike security or prosperity as it is unlike agony.

The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.

The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.

The revealed Word awakened me, but it was the preached Word that saved me, and I must ever attach peculiar value to the hearing of the truth, for by it I received the joy and peace in which my soul delights.

But by reading them again and again finally I was able to grasp the essential part. What emotion, enthusiasm, enlightenment and confidence they communicated to me! I wept for joy.

When we tell the story of our own conversion, I would have it done with great sorrow, remembering what we used to be, and with great joy and gratitude, remembering how little we deserve these things.

The joy of doing well as a batsman for your country is much more than that little joy of going for a party and enjoying music. It is a completely different high, and I get high by performances. That’s what I enjoy now.

There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life’s sores the better.

If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough.

There’s nothing better than having a baby. I’ve always loved children. I used to work summers at the YMCA and be in charge of, like, 30 preschool kids. I knew that when I had a child, I’d be overwhelmed, and it’s true… I can’t tell you how much my attitude has changed since we’ve got Frances. Holding my baby is the best drug in the world.

Joy is the serious business of Heaven.

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

We fear that this moment will end, that we won’t get what we need, that we will lose what we love, or that we will not be safe. Often, our biggest fear is the knowledge that one day our bodies will cease functioning. So even when we are surrounded by all the conditions for happiness, our joy is not complete.

I spent a lot of years trying to outrun or outsmart vulnerability by making things certain and definite, black and white, good and bad. My inability to lean into the discomfort of vulnerability limited the fullness of those important experiences that are wrought with uncertainty: Love, belonging, trust, joy, and creativity to name a few.

Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.

I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.

I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.

Humor is mankind’s greatest blessing.

We don’t laugh because we’re happy – we’re happy because we laugh.

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy and serenity.

Perhaps one of the most difficult things for us to do is to choose a notable and joyous dress for men. There would be more joy in life if we were to accustom ourselves to use all the beautiful colours we can in fashioning our own clothes.

Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

Jesus lived a life that was full of joy and contradictions and fights, you know? If they were to paint a picture of Jesus without contradictions, the gospels would be fake, but the contradictions are a sign of authenticity.

I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.

The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.

It is a joy to be an artist, but it doesn’t mean very much unless that work is somehow useful in some way and contributes to others.

The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.

First and foremost comes my family and my life with Brad. We have so much joy in raising our children and teaching them about the world that nothing really compares to that.

Behold the child, by Nature’s kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

I’ve learned that men and women who are living wholehearted lives really allow themselves to soften into joy and happiness. They allow themselves to experience it.

If I am not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.

Let not a libation of tears be the only offering at the shrine of Jesus; let us also rejoice with joy unspeakable. If we have need to lament our sin, how much more to rejoice at our pardon!

My three children have brought me great joy.

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.

Nevertheless, whether in occurrences lasting days, hours or mere minutes at a time, I have experienced happiness often, and have had brief encounters with it in my later years, even in old age.

Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness – great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart, don’t know how to laugh either.

You can’t deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

The more in harmony with yourself you are, the more joyful you are and the more faithful you are. Faith is not to disconnect you from reality – it connects you to reality.

The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow; there is no humor in Heaven.

As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.

It was morning; through the high window I saw the pure, bright blue of the sky as it hovered cheerfully over the long roofs of the neighboring houses. It too seemed full of joy, as if it had special plans, and had put on its finest clothes for the occasion.

A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance.

I’m happiest with my family around me.

I think ABBA have a pure joy to their music and that’s what makes them extraordinary.

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

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

He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.

Anyone who’s looked into a newborn’s innocent eyes should realize how incredible it is to be blessed with a new life.

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

Joy in looking and comprehending is nature’s most beautiful gift.

Most of us experience a life full of wonderful moments and difficult moments. But for many of us, even when we are most joyful, there is fear behind our joy.

In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider.

Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!

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