Joyful Quotes
418 Joyful quotes by 312 unique authors
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But all night, Aslan and the Moon gazed upon each other with joyful and unblinking eyes.
— C.S. Lewis
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Seeing him again after so long awakened something inside me. I was surprised to find myself feeling sad rather than joyful, as I would have…
— Arthur Golden
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i do it for the joy it brings because i'm a joyful girl because the world owes me nothing and we owe each other the…
— Ani DiFranco
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If the library in the morning suggests an echo of the severe and reasonable wishful order of the world, the library at night seems to…
— Alberto Manguel
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Hold up your head! You were not made for failure, you were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful confidence.
— George Eliot
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She seemed to know, to accept, to welcome her position, the citadel of the family, the strong place that could not be taken. And since…
— John Steinbeck
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God is pursuing with omnipotent passion a worldwide purpose of gathering joyful worshipers for Himself from every tribe and tongue and people and nation. He…
— John Piper
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Everything in the world is beautiful, but Man only recognizes beauty if he sees it either seldom or from afar. Listen, today we are gods!…
— Vladimir Nabokov
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Darkness was and darkness was good. As with light. Light and Darkness dancing together, born together, born of each other, neither preceding, neither following, both…
— Madeleine L'Engle
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The future teachers I try to recruit are those show have refused to let themselves be neutered in this way, either in their private lives…
— Jonathan Kozol
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Never before had I known the sudden quiver of understanding that travels from word to brain to heart, the way a new language can move,…
— Elizabeth Kostova
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How joyful to be together, alone as when we first were joined in our little house by the river long ago, except that now we…
— Wendell Berry
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I came to a clear conclusion, and it is a universal one: To live, to struggle, to be in love with life--in love with all…
— Betty Smith
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Writing isn't just a job that stops at six thirty... It's a mad, sexy, sad, scary, ruthless, joyful, and utterly, utterly personal thing. There's not…
— Russell T Davies
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Gratitude is a mark of a noble soul and a refined character. We like to be around those who are grateful. They tend to brighten…
— Joseph B. Wirthlin
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It was, at last, real life, with my heart safe and condemned to die of happy love in the joyful agony of any day after…
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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It's that moon again, slung so fat and low in the tropical night, calling out across a curdled sky and into the quivering ears of…
— Jeff Lindsay
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For if joyful is the fountain that rises in the sun, its springs are in the wells of sorrow unfathomable at the foundations of the…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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Autumn is as joyful and sweet as an untimely end.
— Remy de Gourmont
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Had they known at these moments to be quietly joyful? Most likely not. People mostly did not know enough when they were living life that…
— Elizabeth Strout
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The goal of prayer is to live all of my life and speak all of my words in the joyful awareness of the presence of…
— John Ortberg
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Fair as the moon and joyful as the light; Tot wan with waiting, not with sorrow dim; Not as she is, but was when hope…
— Christina Rossetti
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A joyful heart is the normal result of a heart burning with love. She gives most who gives with joy.
— Mother Teresa
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And the world cannot be discovered by a journey of miles, no matter how long, but only by a spiritual journey, a journey of one…
— Wendell Berry
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There were days - she could remember this - when Henry would hold her hand as they walked home, middle-aged people, in their prime. Had…
— Elizabeth Strout
Who Wrote These Joyful Quotes
312 authors contributed a total of 418 Joyful Quotes, led by these top contributors: