Joy Quotes

I always was one who didn't take things for granted. But I think I do appreciate things more now. The small moments of joy that we find each day are so much more precious now than when I looked at them before.
Chris LeDoux

Small, Find, Before

Balance, peace, and joy are the fruit of a successful life. It starts with recognizing your talents and finding ways to serve others by using them.
Thomas Kinkade

Life, Peace, Successful

I have drunken deep of joy, And I will taste no other wine tonight.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Deep, Wine, Taste

Learning should be a joy and full of excitement. It is life's greatest adventure; it is an illustrated excursion into the minds of the noble and the learned.
Taylor Caldwell

Life, Learning, Greatest

If you want to have sustained joy, you have to not only make sure that you think right, but you also have to make decisions now that are going to guarantee some joy in the future.
Joyce Meyer

Future, Decisions, Sure

Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one's liberty.
Henri Frederic Amiel

Liberty, Secret, Means

When people in stadiums do the Wave, it's the group-mind collective organism spontaneously organizing itself to express an emotion, pass time, and reflect the joy of seeing the rhythms of many as one, a visual rhyming or music in which everyone senses where the motion is going.
Jerry Saltz

Music, Time, Everyone

There's a joy and a pain about directing where the dreams you have are becoming concrete but the attention to detail, the need for time is such that it's overwhelming at times, and the stream of responsibility.
William Shatner

Dreams, Time, Pain

My beautiful wife is dead. She meant everything to me. Her laughter, her tears and her joy will remain with me the rest of my life.
William Shatner

Life, Beautiful, Laughter

The only joy in the world is to begin.
Cesare Pavese

During the 80s and 90s, we all became consumed with ourselves. In the 21st century, we've come back to simpler times. People are struggling economically and this has forced them to scale back the material aspects of their lives and realise the beauty of finding the simple joy in being with the people we love.
Julia Roberts

Love, Beauty, Simple

There are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind them when they go.
Jean Paul

Leaving, Gift, Behind

We're always experiencing joy or sadness. But there are lots of people who've closed down. And there are times in one's life when one has to close down just to regroup.
Leonard Cohen

Life, Sadness, Down

So I never spend a lot of time analyzing why people respond to my work. But I think that it's just the joy, a passion for life, that I think has always been in my characters. Beyond that, I'm just grateful for it.
Michael J. Fox

Life, Work, Time

Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Win, Striving, Toy

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!
Anne Sullivan

Morning, Mind, Heart

Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy.
Arthur Helps

Strength, Deep, Silence

My wife, whenever I'd go off to work and I'd be kind of anxious, she'll say, 'Remember, have fun.' Oh, I forgot, thanks for the reminder. Because sometimes we do forget. We take it all too seriously and there's a lot of joy to be had wherever you are.
Jeff Bridges

Work, Fun, Wife

There is a joy in sorrow which none but a mourner can know.
Jean Paul

If you carry joy in your heart, you can heal any moment.
Carlos Santana

Heart, Moment, Carry

To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.
Pearl S. Buck

Beautiful, Mind, Heart

The only nice thing about being imperfect is the joy it brings to others.
Doug Larson

Nice, Others, Imperfect

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.
Eleonora Duse

Nature, Power, Simple

I've never felt like I was in the cookie business. I've always been in a feel good feeling business. My job is to sell joy. My job is to sell happiness. My job is to sell an experience.
Debbi Fields

Happiness, Good, Business

Sure, I get the blues. But what I try to do, is apply joy to the blues, you know? I don't know if it's a technique, or just being bent that way, being raised by the folks I was raised by.
Jeff Bridges

Try, Sure, Blues

I think there's a real joy in going to see movies when you discover them yourself.
Jeff Bridges

Movies, Yourself, Real

Eating is not merely a material pleasure. Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill and happy companionship. It is of great importance to the morale.
Elsa Schiaparelli

Life, Great, Happy

Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.
Karl Barth

Gratitude, Simplest

So we strive for perfection in the areas in which we can control, and that isn't necessarily what provides contentment and joy for ourselves and, more importantly, for our children.
Sarah Jessica Parker

Children, Control, Ourselves

Off with you! You're a happy fellow, for you'll give happiness and joy to many other people. There is nothing better or greater than that!
Ludwig van Beethoven

Happiness, Happy, Nothing

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