Joy Quotes · Page 119

Friendship, love, health, energy, enthusiasm, and joy are the things that make life worth living and exploring.

— Denise Austin

“The more you genuinely praise people in your consciousness, the easier it is to tune into your own inner joy.”

— Christopher Dines

“... take the pain that is given, give thanks for it, and transform it into a joy that fulfills all emptiness.”

— Ann Voskamp

Happiness is the moment when you cease to make an inventory of joys; it is a glow, a brightness - never a…

— Elizabeth Bibesco

If you do anything well, it becomes enjoyable. To keep enjoying something, you need to increase its complexity.

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

“Deception can only live in the darkness and shadows. There is no place for it to hide once it is illuminated.”

— Molly Friedenfeld

“I see what the joy is; it is the joy of always loving, it is the joy of losing my own life…

— Andrew Murray

The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.

— Erica Jong

“I was beginning to see how central friendship, and relationship more generally, was in our experience of joy.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

For me, football is a quest. Quests entail overcoming hardship, trials of adversity in the pursuit of true joy.

— Steve Young

“You are a song like no other song God's ever sung. Let that song fill your part of His world with joy-sounds.”

— Joanne Otto

“You’ve gotta love yourself enough to look INSIDE you & not BESIDE you for your joy, confidence, & self worth.”

— Mandy Hale

All my joys resemble more a momentary intoxication than the real gold of happiness. It was all but an illusion.

— Anonymous

You can be happy if you know this secret: Some things are within your power to control and some things are not.

— Epictetus

It was a childish ignorance, But now 'tis little joy To know I'm further off from heaven Than when I was a…

— Thomas Hood

On with dance, let joy be unconfined, is my motto; whether there's any dance to dance or any joy to unconfined.

— Mark Twain

What can be added to the happiness of the man who is in health, who is out of debt, and has a…

— Adam Smith

I can get sad, I can get frustrated, I can get scared, but I never get depressed because theres joy in my…

— Michael J Fox

The joy of life is made up of obscure and seemingly mundane victories that give us our own small satisfactions.

— Billy Joel

We may not be able to give much but we can always give the joy that springs in a heart that is…

— Mother Teresa

Beauty is a harmonious relation between something in our nature and the quality of the object which delights us.

— Blaise Pascal

Instead of looking for the success in your life, look for the thing that is going to bring you the greatest joy.

— Oprah Winfrey

The more we seek gratitude, the more reason the angels will give us for gratitude and joy to exist in our lives.

— Terry Taylor

Whoever increases the sum of human joy, is a worshiper. He who adds to the sum of human misery, is a blasphemer.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Love is the key. Giving your children joy and happiness...when you give it to them, you will receive it as well.

— DJ Khaled

There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Music has infinite power to reach the gap between the heart and the soul to create infinite and ineffable joy.”

— Debasish Mridha

Instead of bracing yourself for the perils of the unknown, embrace the joy that is here, in your present moment.

— Anonymous

You're happy when you leave your concerns to the side and when you experience a pure moment of joy with friends.

— Pascal Bruckner

“Every pain is repeated in other places and other lives, every joy is repeated in other places and other lives.”

— Luis Alexandre Ribeiro Branco

Gratitude & joy drove them to do good works before the thought that they had to do them even crossed their mind.

— Herman Bavinck

One takes what the river offers, both good and bad. The joy of living by running water far outweighs the sorrow.

— Anonymous

“Every time my daughter smiles or calls me daddy, those are the sweetest sounds of my life. It is heavenly joy.”

— Debasish Mridha

Writing isn't about the process. It is about creating. The joy comes not from the process but from the creation.

— Harlan Coben

You have to learn where people's funnybone is before you can start to poke fun and work out where that joy lies.

— Chris Harris

“Everyone suffers and rejoices in his own body, it’s hard to really feel what joy or pain another person feels.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

The roadblocks to growth and joy come when we forget the bigness of God & instead make people bigger than He is.

— Mary E. DeMuth

As God loves a cheerful giver, so he also loves a cheerful taker. Who takes hold of his gifts with a glad…

— John Donne

In life, there are no shortcuts to joy. Anything that is worth pursuing requires us to suffer just a little bit.

— Chris Burkard

What if your purpose is to take impeccable care of yourself so that you have the energy and joy to serve others?

— Kris Carr