Quotes About Joy

The course led them to the moment when, in answer to the highest of one's values, one's spirit makes one's body become the tribute, recasting it--as proof, as sanction, as reward--into a single sensation of such intensity of joy that no other sanction of one's existence is necessary.

We do not know why, when we think of them, we feel all of a sudden that the earth is good and that it is not a burden to live.

The statue was of a young man with a tall, gaunt body and an angular face. He held his head as if he faced a challenge and found joy in his capacity to meet it.

I have, let's say, sixty years to live. Most of that time will be spent working. I've chosen the work I want to do. If I find no joy in it, then I'm only condemning myself to sixty years of torture. And I can find the joy only if I do my work in the best way possible to me. But the best is a matter of standards—and I set my own standards. I inherit nothing. I stand at the end of no tradition. I may, perhaps, stand at the beginning of one.

I was thinking of people who say that happiness is impossible on earth. Look how hard they all try to find some joy in life. Look how they struggle for it. Why should any living creature exist in pain? By what conceivable right can anyone demand that a human being exist for anything but for his own joy? Every one of them wants it. Every part of him wants it. But they never find it. I wonder why.

Shared joy is increased; Shared pain is lessened.

He smiled like a sun lamp.

shared joy is multiplied, shared grief is diminished

God save us from gloomy saints!

Entertainment is one of the most important things in people's lives. Without it, they might go off the deep end.

The rest of the day they spent blowing soap bubbles from the veranda.

The satisfaction with which you parade your proof of the lottery origin of human nature is not pure. It is, besides the joy of knowledge, a pleasure in befouling that which others consider lovely and hold dear.

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

The mystery of the feminine heart was meant to be a good thing, by the way. A source of joy.

When you like yourself, you are free to enjoy others, and in your presence people experience an invitation to become and enjoy who they truly are.

Defiant joy does not depend on feeling happy. Defiant joy is solely based on the victory of Jesus Christ and all that He has won for you.

You must cultivate your hope if you are to live in joy. You need to think on what is coming. Remember the words of Peter: "Set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ" (1 Peter 1:13 ESV).

That is why we must remember that though happiness is rooted in our circumstances, joy is rooted in eternity.

Hope is the nutrient-rich soil in which joy flourishes.

Joy and hope have a symbiotic relationship. Hope is the nutrient-rich soil in which joy flourishes. Without hope, there is no joy. And joy nourishes our hope. It is the fertilizer that helps us to cultivate ecstatic blooms.

The secret to joy is to keep seeking God where we doubt He is."5

A grateful heart is a heart that is free. An ungrateful heart is a heart that is bound. Gratitude inevitably leads to freedom.

Sotto la cenere della mia tristezza Non troverete il freddo e il buio Ma la fiamma ardente Di una grande gioia di vivere

Ogni notte è meravigliosa quando torni vivo da un campo di battaglia, o esci da un ospedale, o lasci una prigione, bella è la gioia degli scampati, dei guariti, dei salvi, anche se sarà breve.