Quotes About Joy

Joy was a flame in me Too steady to destroy. Lithe as a bending reed, Loving the storm that sways her - I found more joy in sorrow Than you could find in joy.

When you win, nothing hurts.

It is in games that many men discover their paradise.

Strong hope is a much greater stimulant of life than any single realized joy could be.

We only do well the things we like doing.

Happiness is not a station to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.

He has achieved success, who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much; who has gained the respect of intelligent men and the love of little children.

Great men have not been concerned with fame. The joy of achievement that comes from finding something new in the universe is by far their greatest joy.

You think that upon the score of fore-knowledge and divining I am infinitely inferior to the swans. When they perceive approaching death they sing more merrily than before, because of the joy they have in going to the God they serve.

A sense of humor is the ability to laugh at your own jokes when your friends tell them.

How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace.

Be of good cheer. Do not think of today's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourselves a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere; and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles. Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost.

The biggest thing in today's sorrow is the memory of yesterday's joy.

This is the day which the Lord has made. Let us rejoice and be glad in it.

He growled at morning, noon, and night, And trouble sought to borrow; Although today the sky was bright, He knew t'would storm tomorrow; A thought of joy he could not stand, And struggled to resist it; Though sunshine dappled all the land This sorry pessimist it.

J. C. F. von Schiller

Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it; that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one.

Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys.

T'were too absurd to slight for the hereafter, the day's delight!

If you are as happy, my dear sir, on entering this house as I am in leaving it and returning home, you are the happiest man in the country.

The bliss e'en of a moment still is bliss.

I have the happiness of the passing moment, and what more can mortal ask?

The trouble is not that we are never happy-it is that happiness is so episodical.

The mere sense of living is joy enough.