Quotes About Joy

So that's the balance that we want to see—honesty, urgency, and joy. Honesty and urgency with no joy gives us a grim determination (read Philippians). Honesty and joy with no urgency gives us a carelessness about time (read 2 Peter). And urgency and joy with no honesty leads us into distorted claims about immediate benefits of the gospel (read 1 Peter).

Whatsoever we give the supremacy of the inward man to, whatsoever we love most, whatsoever we trust most, whatsoever we fear most, whatsoever we joy and delight most, whatsoever we obey most—that is our god."117 In the end, one's love indicates one's God118—for no human lives without loving.119

Our identity is not in our joy, and our identity is not in our suffering. Our identity is in Christ, whether we have joy or are suffering.

All present life is but an interjection, An "Oh!" or "Ah!" of joy or misery Or a "Ha, ha!" or "Bah!"—a yawn, or "Pooh!" Of which perhaps the latter is most true. —LORD BYRON

One of the greatest joys to me is making every single person in the audience laugh and forget their worries.

Vladimir allegedly noting that "drinking is the joy of all Rus'. We cannot exist without that pleasure." (Some stereotypes have a long pedigree, it seems.)

The middle mammal brain is the seat of your emotions. (Call it your inner drama queen.) It's where powerful feelings—love, joy, sadness, anger, grief, jealousy, pleasure—arise.

Live like you were dying, Love because you are.

People need people and the happiest people are surrounded with friendly flesh. If you have ten kids they'll be so sweet -- ten really sweet kids! Have twelve! What if there were 48 pro baseball teams, you could see a damn lot more games! And in this fashion we get away from tragedy. Because tragedy comes when someone gets too special.

to be paid for one's joy is to steal.

Where there's chocolate, there's hope.

Afternoons were whiled away playing guitars to records, singing, reveling in the joy of chords, finding out how almost every rock song they knew could be played with C, F and G or G7.

The Beatles' music still lifts the spirit and is passed joyfully from generation to generation.

joy is not just about being happy. Joy is a rigorous spiritual practice of saying yes to life on life's terms

The further I wake into this life, the more I realize that God is everywhere and the extraordinary is waiting quietly beneath the skin of all that is ordinary. Light is in both the broken bottle and the diamond, and music is in both the flowing violin and the water dripping from the drainage pipe. Yes, God is under the porch as well as on top of the mountain, and joy is in both the front row and the bleachers, if we are willing to be where we are.

The key to knowing joy is being easily pleased.

Drunk and smart--twice blessed.

If you write for money or fame you will be disappointed. If you do so for the love of it, you will be rich in satisfaction.

suffering borne by two is nearly joy.

Laughter is an orgasm triggered by the intercourse of sense and nonsense.

There is no happiness like the pounding of so many horses into one. I imagine I hear the horses laugh. I think it every time. I think that running is the way a horse may laugh out loud. When I am older I will believe that following in their wake has filled me with the inconsolable joy of animals.

There is no happiness like mine. I have been eating poetry.

women chained in place with bike locks, leading their arresting officers in a round of "Amazing Grace." "This is the manufactured division that keeps us separated," Ethan told me. "And separation is the source of how we're in this position." What if he could re-create the joy and song and theater of the protesters but without a demonstration?

How do you find happiness?" Anna paused, then said, "You start by looking right around you for the blessings you have.