Joy Quotes · Page 121

No matter how you look, we all hurt the same, cry the same, and feel joy the same.

— Paula Patton

“Relationships are painful when they are not working and so joyful when they are.”

— Pamela Cummins

“There is sanctity in knowing, being, wanting, feeling all of everything for you.”

— Truth Devour

“Returning to life was not easy, for joy had to find its long unused paths again.”

— Väinö Linna

The joy of the Brazilians in football is a wonderful thing no matter where you go.

— Joachim Low

“A smile is one of the best ways we can express the joy God has placed within us.”

— Karol Ladd

For malice will with joy the lie receive, Report, and what it wishes true believe.

— Thomas Yalden

Beauty is such a fleeting blossom, how can wisdom rely upon its momentary delight?

— Seneca the Younger

Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past.

— Nikolai Gogol

There is unspeakable joy... for the person who knows release from guilt and the relief of forgiveness.

— Stuart Briscoe

The joys of friendship inert the heart and fizzy home bouncing jubilantly with laughter-buttered love.

— Bradley Chicho

Trouble is a thing that will come without our call, but true joy will not spring up without ourselves.

— Simon Patrick

“And with pain and joy, their hearts learned to hear that double lesson which leads to a happy death.”

— Albert Camus

Impermanence is the very essence of joy-the drop of bitterness that enables one to perceive the sweet.

— Myrtle Reed

The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each others lives.

— Anonymous

JOY in the LORD puts our mouths out of taste for the pleasures with which the tempter baits his hooks.

— Matthew Henry

The joy I felt as the prospect before me of being the instrument destined to take away from the world one of…

— Edward Jenner

On a feeling and sensitive mind a demolished forest impresses unmingled sadness, whereas its primeval grandeur must inspire anyone to immeasurable delight,…

— Ferdinand von Mueller

If you practice in accord with your individual capacity, little by little you will find more pleasure and joy in it. As…

— Dalai Lama

Joy gives us wings! In times of joy our strength is more vital, our intellect keener, and our understanding less clouded. We…

— Abdu'l-Bahá

You cannot be too gentle, too kind. Shun even to appear harsh in your treatment of each other. Joy, radiant joy, streams…

— Seraphim of Sarov

Stay up and listen to lightening. If there is no lightening around, stay up and listen to nothing. Just listen to the…

— Perry Brass

One reason we have children I think is to learn that parts of ourselves we had given up for dead are merely…

— Anne Fadiman

Your fervent wishes can only find fulfillment if you succeed in attaining love and understanding of men, and animals, and plants, and…

— Albert Einstein

Love much dear friends for love will bring the healing joy and hope of Spring. . .

— John McLeod

We play with energy, we play with intensity - we love that. That brings joy to us.

— Jaren Jackson, Jr

“An obligation is rarely done out of joy. But, joy is the obligation of the soul.”

— Andrew Pacholyk

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

— Helen Keller

Happiness is only the threshold to misery. When a friend refuses to share in joys.

— Georg Ebers

Laughter is a sense of proportion and a power of seeing yourself from the outside.

— Zero Mostel

Don't postpone joy until you have learned all of your lessons. Joy is your lesson.

— Alan Cohen

Stop searching for happiness all over the world, your happiness dwells within you.

— Ore Abayomi

The melancholy joys of evils pass'd, For he who much has suffer'd, much will know.

— Homer

The joys of love...last only a moment. The sorrows of love last all the life long.

— Madeleine L'Engle

...[P]eople who shout joy from the rooftops are often the saddest of all... (p.24)

— Milan Kundera

“Life is full of ups and downs be brave to ride the crest of joy with gay abandon”

— P. Dinakara Rao

The true spirit of delight...is to be found in mathematics as surely as in poetry.

— Bertrand Russell

“Seek joyfulness when you can, for seeking joy leads to an auspicious atmosphere.”

— Jonathan D. Spence

Life always offers you a second chance, and that second chance is called tomorrow.

— Anonymous

How do we cultivate the conditions for joy to expand? We train in staying present.

— Pema Chodron