Joy Quotes · Page 178

May your Holidays be filled with joy and good cheer and the New Year bring you peace and happiness.

— Anonymous

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

— Henri Rousseau

Positive thoughts: joy, happiness, fulfillment, achievement, worthiness, have positive results: enthusiasm, calm, well-being, ease, energy, love…

— Peter McWilliams

Things and conditions can give you pleasure but they cannot give you joy- joy arises from within.

— Eckhart Tolle

Next to doing a good job yourself, the greatest joy is having someone else do a first class job under your direction.

— William Feather

I love acting, of course, but being with my husband and my children always brought me the greatest joy and happiness in…

— Meryl Streep

I discovered that joy is not the negation of pain, but rather acknowledging the presence of pain and feeling happiness in spite…

— Lupita Nyong'o

Perfume and incense bring joy to the heart, and the pleasantness of one's friend springs from his earnest counsel

— Bible

“...watching it with fascination, hypnotised, as if it were stroking with its silver fingers some sealed vessel in her brain whose bursting…

— Virginia Woolf

The domestic relations precede, and in our present existence are worth more than all our other social ties. They give the first…

— William Ellery Channing

I can tell you, dearest friend, that if it became known how much friendship, love and a world of human and spiritual…

— Alban Berg

'Find Me' I think, is brooding in a very literal sense of the word in that you have all of these sort…

— Laura van den Berg

Record stores are the hippest libraries. In these tired ole days of homogenized entertainment, where so much of the art of our…

— Elizabeth Cook

“Ave atque vale... Hail and farewell. He had never given much thought to the words before, he had never thought about why…

— Cassandra Clare

The materialistic pattern of life is that where money predominates over everything. The non-materialistic life is that where money is just a…

— Rajneesh

Empower me to be a bold participant, rather than a timid saint in waiting, in the difficult ordinariness of now; to exercise…

— Ted Loder

“The mind is more sensible than heart, if you are sure listen to your heart, if you are confuse listen to your…

— Amit Kalantri

The joy of surfing is so many things combined, from the physical exertion of it, to the challenge of it, to the…

— Kelly Slater

Reading has always been in the chief joy, a never-ending topic of conversation, and often a lifesaver, in my family.

— Elizabeth Borton de Trevino

“… a person who tries to use reasoning to explain faith gets lost in the wilderness of incomprehension.”

— Janvier Chando

“There are moments when I am pierced through by an inexplicable joy, as if, in having nothing, I have the world.”

— Sebastian Barry

“Happiness is a collection of joyful experiences shared with soul friends. Get together and have some fun!”

— Amy Leigh Mercree

I tend to find the ecstasy hidden in ordinary joys, because I did not expect those joys to be ordinary to me.

— Andrew Solomon

The garden of love is green without limit and yields many fruits other than sorrow or joy. Love is beyond either condition:…

— Rumi

Just follow your joy. Always. I think that if you do that, life will take you on the course that it's meant…

— Jonathan Groff

Life is about today, yesterday is gone and can not be changed, tomorrow has yet to arrive, so live for today and…

— Nishan Panwar

Life is like a roller-coaster you have some ups and downs in life but thats life theres nothing you can do about…

— Vanity_LEO

Arsene's a gift, he really is a gift. He's got his faults, like all of us, but he's a pure joy to…

— Tony Adams

books have been my greatest comfort, castle-building a never-failing delight, and scribbling a very profitable amusement.

— Louisa May Alcott

That sorrow which is the harbinger of joy is preferable to the joy which is followed by sorrow.

— Anonymous

Think of all the joy you'll find when you leave the world behind and bid your cares goodbye.

— Peter Pan

Life doesn't take itself seriously for long. Joy leaves an imprint even in the hardest sorrow.

— Deborah Smith

I see this quality [real interest and joy] in the work of [Pavel] Chekhov, of course, and [Alexei] Tolstoy and really just…

— George Saunders

Only God can forgive you, restore your joy, and fill you with the right desires. - 1 John 1:9

— Bible

To be in Christ is the source of the Christian life; to be like Christ is the sum of his excellence; to…

— Charles Hodge

Joy is based on the spiritual knowledge that, while the world in which we live is shrouded in darkness, God has overcome…

— Henri Nouwen

Only by living at the edge of death can you understand the indescribable joy of life - Shogun.

— James Clavell

What joy and adventure the youngsters of today are missing as they sit indoors mucking about with computer games and videos!

— Brian Clough

By letting our children lead us to their own special places we can rediscover the joy and wonder of nature.

— Richard Louv

“It is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed by someone wiser than oneself.”

— Marlene Dietrich