Joy Quotes · Page 122

Joy comes not through possession or ownership but through a wise and loving heart.

— Gautama Buddha

“You can’t shower happiness on others without getting few drops back on yourself.”

— Israelmore Ayivor

We take no pleasure in permitted joys, But what's forbidden is more keenly sought.

— Ovid

When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.

— Anonymous

Sex is a game, a weapon, a toy, a joy, a trance, an enlightenment, a loss, a hope.

— Sallie Tisdale

“The path of joy involves valuing yourself and monitoring where you put your time”

— Sonaya Roman

Those who do not know the torment of the unknown cannot have the joy of discovery.

— Claude Bernard

I think there's a real joy in going to see movies when you discover them yourself.

— Jeff Bridges

“As the psalmists cry out in joy or grief, they stir us as we identify similar emotions in ourselves.”

— Tremper Longman III

This is a delicious evening, when the whole body is one sense, and imbibes delight through every pore.

— Henry David Thoreau

When all within is peace How nature seems to smile Delights that never cease The live-long day beguile

— William Cowper

Joy is realized as the natural by-product of the passionate pursuit of something other than happiness.

— Marc Gafni

Cheerfulness is also an excellent wearing quality. It has been called the bright weather of the heart.

— Samuel Smiles

When I'm onstage the joy is to try to be the best I can be, I'm there because I want it to…

— Dennis DeYoung

Let us relish life as we live it, find joy in the journey, and share our love with family and friends.

— Thomas S. Monson

Tears of joy, Tears of sad, tears of good, Tears of bad, We cry these tears, To get through the years.

— Amber Cassel

The gayety of life, like the beauty and the moral worth of life, is a saving grace, which to ignore is folly,…

— Agnes Repplier

Sensual pleasure passes and vanishes, but the friendship between us, the mutual confidence, the delight of the heart, the enchantment of the…

— Voltaire

I feel myself part of something. Not only being part of a community but part of an actual moment and a movement…

— Seamus Heaney

The delight we find in art amounts to recognition of a saving grace, to an acknowledgment that the problem of life has…

— Rebecca West

Do not look for rest in any pleasure, because you were not created for pleasure: you were created for joy. And if…

— Thomas Merton

A lot of people seem to feel that joy is only the most intense version of pleasure, arrived at by the same…

— Zadie Smith

The joy and love that I get from playing football are unbelievable. It is such a feeling that I want to give…

— Sunil Chhetri

The real joy is in discovering that the twigs and branches of my practice are all firmly rooted in a single tree,…

— James Nares

The function of a book or a poem or a story is to delight, to enchant, to beguile.

— Philip Pullman

I couldn't imagine somebody like Osama bin Laden understanding the joy of Chanukah.

— George W. Bush

I try to live in a little bit of my own joy and not let people steal it or take it.

— Hoda Kotb

“You are the light of the world. Shine brightly. Smile beautifully! Rejoice daily!”

— Brenda M. McGraw

No grief has a right to immortality. That ground belongs to joy, to hope, to faith.

— Henry Ward Beecher

We have a tendency to obscure the forest of simple joys with the trees of problems.

— Christiane Collange

True education flowers at the point when delight falls in love with responsibility.

— Philip Pullman

“Amid the joy of raising children will be some of the hardest work you’ll ever do.”

— Elizabeth George

“[S]tudy has never been a burden for me but always an inexhaustible source of joy.”

— Kató Lomb

Pain is pain, joy is joy - you can't avoid bringing pieces of yourself into a role.

— Joshua Leonard

Perhaps in nearly every joy, as certainly in every pleasure, cruelty has its place.

— Oscar Wilde

Those who say only sunshine brings happiness, has obviously not danced in the rain.

— Anonymous

Unalloyed satisfactions are joys too heavenly to fall to many mens shares on earth.

— Robert Boyle

“Shout out for Joy! Don`t scream out in fear for victors shout and victims scream.”

— Agu Jaachynma N E

“as a well-spent day gives, joy in sleep so a well-spent life brings, joy in dying”

— Leonardo da Vinci

What brings joy to the heart is not so much the friend's gift as the friend's love.

— Saint Alfred