Joy Quotes

"Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid."
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

"This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. "
-George Bernard Shaw

"There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief."
-Aeschylus

"Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy."
-Sarah Ban Breathnach

"Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing."
-William Shakespeare

"Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls."
-Mother Teresa

"The most profound joy has more of gravity than of gaiety in it."
-Michel de Montaigne

"Talk of joy: there may be things better than beef stew and baked potatoes and home-made bread - there may be."
-David Gayson

"May your walls know joy; May every room hold laughter and every window open to great possibility."
-Maryanne Radmacher Hershey

"There is no time like the pleasant."
-Oliver Herford

"In a restaurant one is both observed and unobserved. Joy and sorrow can be displayed and observed "unwittingly," the writer scowling naively and the diners wondering, What the hell is he doing?"
-David Mamet

"When I'm on stage, I'm trying to do one thing: bring people joy. Just like church does. People don't go to church to find trouble, they go there to lose it."
-James Brown

"I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!"
-Jerry Van Amerongen

"Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile."
-Sir Wilfred Grenfell

"My mind to me a kingdom is, Such present joys therein I find, That it excels all other bliss."
-Sir Edward Dyer

"Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing."
-Phil Jackson

"I found more joy in sorrow than you could find in joy."
-Sara Teasdale

"Give not over thy soul to sorrow; and afflict not thyself in thy own counsel. Gladness of heart is the life of man and the joyfulness of man is length of days."
-Ecclesiastes

"Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings."
-Euripides

"There is no greater joy nor greater reward than to make a fundamental difference in someone's life."
-Sister Mary Rose McGeady

"When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet."
-Stanislaw J. Lec

"The only joy in the world is to begin."
-Cesare Pavese

"There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness."
-Pearl S. Buck

"Do not judge men by mere appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy."
-Edward Chapin

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

"Sorrow is brief but joy is endless."
-Friedrich von Schiller