Joy Quotes · Page 117

The Scythians take kannabis seed, creep in under the felts, and throw it on the red-hot stones. It smolders and sends up…

— Herodotus

When I am with a group of human beings committed to hanging in there through both the agony and the joy of…

— M. Scott Peck

...we must also acknowledge that the majority of the men and women of our time continue to live daily in situations of…

— Pope Francis

When we fully understand the brevity of life, its fleeting joys and unavoidable pains; when we accept the facts that all men…

— Clarence Darrow

When a character has so many secrets and so much inner life, it's a joy to play those characters because you can…

— Viola Davis

I was in a dark place for so many years. There was no joy.

— Nigel Benn

My very first memory of being alive is being tossed in the air by my father and laughing and knowing, really knowing,…

— Eileen Atkins

“You must come home with and be my guest; You will give joy to me, and I will do all that is…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

The teachings on love given by the Buddha are clear, scientific, and applicable... Love, compassion, joy, and equanimity are the very nature…

— Nhat Hanh

The heart of myself has always been something just wanting so bad. I have had an empty center, black as a basement,…

— Elizabeth Berg

“Along the way, my Heavenly Father has taught me that the fruit of the Spirit - love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, gentleness,…

— Jeremy Camp

But here's the joy: my friend and I are one, Sweet flattery!

— William Shakespeare

“Call the Sabbath a delight: 13 a delight to the soul and a delight to the body. Since there are so many…

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

If you've never experienced the joy of accomplishing more than you can imagine, plant a garden.

— Anonymous

Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Without Christ there would be no Christmas and without Christ there can be no fulness of JOY

— Ezra Taft Benson

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 time to read is any time: no apparatus, no appointment of time and place, is necessary. It is the only art…

— Holbrook Jackson

“Ferocity occurs in all conditions save in joy. Schadenfreude, malicious joy, is a misrepresentation. To do evil is a pleasure, not a…

— Emil M. Cioran

In the midst of excitement, grief, joy, and solitude, I remind myself every moment that the sole mission of my life is…

— Kedar Joshi

“Danders Anders squealed with joy. The most malodorous sound in the world.”

— Justine Larbalestier

I know that. I'm having a ball. I'm not slap happy. I'm just filled up with joy and with peace and with…

— Liza Minnelli

I'll have all of the thoughts, from anxiety and fear to confidence, excitement, exhilaration, joy, celebration with my teammates and my coaches.…

— Justin Tucker

He who is full of joy is full of love.

— Baal Shem Tov

Too many think lightly of sin, and therefore think lightly of the Savior. He who has stood before his God, convicted and…

— Charles Spurgeon

Have the will to be well, to be happy, and to live in joy.

— Ernest Holmes

“Alas my love you do me wrong To cast me off discourteously; And I have loved you oh so longer Delighting in…

— Paula Brackston

Poetry is as necessary to comprehension as science. It is as impossible to live without reverence as it is without joy.

— Henry Beston

A really spiritual person will live life as an art, will create a deep harmony between the body and the consciousness. And…

— Rajneesh

Enthusiasm reaches out with joy, for there is nothing depressing about it; it reaches out in faith, for there is no fear…

— Ernest Holmes

During the 80s and 90s, we all became consumed with ourselves. In the 21st century, we've come back to simpler times. People…

— Julia Roberts

How do I wake up to joy and grace and beauty and all that is the fullest life when I must stay…

— Ann Voskamp

“Through their kisses and caresses they experienced a joy and wonder the equal of which has never been known or heard of.…

— Chrétien de Troyes

Children are overbearing, supercilious, passionate, envious, inquisitive, egotistical, idle, fickle, timid, intemperate, liars, and dissemblers; they laugh and weep easily, are excessive…

— Jean de la Bruyere

A man laments, Oh, that my joy could be a little longer, and a woman laments, Oh, that my joy could be…

— Chuck Palahniuk

One morning as I lay sleeping on the floor, a cockroach crawled over my foot. And I opened my eyes out of…

— Byron Katie

It is because I had so much joy that I came to have so much hate.

— Amy Tan

I can't imagine anything that would signal more clearly that life goes on and joy can follow tragedy than your having a…

— Emily Yoffe

“The dance is over, the applause subsided, but the joy and feeling will stay with you forever.”

— W.M. Tory

When we work hard, we must eat well. What a joy, that you can receive Holy Communion often! It's our life and…

— Peter Julian Eymard