Joy Quotes

My children are my greatest blessings in my life, and they bring me great joy.

Gross National Product measures neither the health of our children, the quality of their education, nor the joy of their play. It measures neither the beauty of our poetry, nor the strength of our marriages. It is indifferent to the decency of our factories and the safety of our streets alike. It measures neither our wisdom nor our learning, neither our wit nor our courage, neither our compassion nor our devotion to our country. It measures everything in short, except that which makes life worth living. It can tell us everything about our country, except those things that make us proud to be a part of it.

My heart is singing for joy this morning! A miracle has happened! The light of understanding has shone upon my little pupil's mind, and behold, all things are changed!

Joy and sorrow are next door neighbors.

I don't quite jump for joy, but I am awfully glad to see him.

I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.

I don't understand people whose gratification is a BMW. You don't know what joy is until you see a kid who was tortured get adopted by a family.

He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sun rise.

Before the reward there must be labor. You plant before you harvest. You sow in tears before you reap joy.

We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.

I love being on stage or in front of the camera. My work brings me a lot of joy. It helps me figure out who I am. I'm really lucky that I get to make a living at acting.

If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive.

Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.

I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.

Be good, keep your feet dry, your eyes open, your heart at peace and your soul in the joy of Christ.

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow; there is no humor in Heaven.

A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live.

Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment. To such an extent indeed that one day, finding myself at the deathbed of a woman who had been and still was very dear to me, I caught myself in the act of focusing on her temples and automatically analyzing the succession of appropriately graded colors which death was imposing on her motionless face.

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

No person can be a great leader unless he takes genuine joy in the successes of those under him.

[Depending on how their homes appear in the photos on computer screens, evacuees have expressed either joy or sorrow at the business center of Panama City, Fla.'s Marriott Bay Point Resort Village, which is home to many hurricane evacuees and also serves as a base for the NOAA team taking aerial photos of the devastation.] There were just numerous people that were so happy, ... And there was actually people crying. It was very emotional.

To see that, it brings a different joy. It's a great feeling to witness it and spectate and be a part of this. That's what I'm happy about. Having the chance to root for this team.

If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same time, because a dose of joy is a spiritual cure.