Joy Quotes

Our children change us.. whether they live or not.
Lois McMaster Bujold

Earth laughs in flowers.

Live your life and forget your age.

There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.

All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.

As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled.

I hope the departure is joyful and I hope never to return.
Frida Kahlo

My mother told me I was dancing before I was born. She could feel my toes tapping wildly inside her for months.
Ginger Rogers

All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.
Marie Curie

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.

Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.

Poor David Hume is dying fast, but with more real cheerfulness and good humor and with more real resignation to the necessary course of things, than any whining Christian ever dyed with pretended resignation to the will of God.

Happiness is the longing for repetition.
Milan Kundera

Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything.
Aesop

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

The whole world is about three drinks behind.
Humphrey Bogart

Eureka! - I have found it
Archimedes

Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.

A day without laughter is a day wasted.

Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.

There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make us rejoice.
John Calvin

I love that feeling of being in love, the effect of having butterflies when you wake up in the morning. That is special.
Jennifer Aniston

I just want to live happily ever after, every now and then.
Jimmy Buffett

One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.
Maria Montessori

I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

There are few things more fundamentally encouraging and stimulating than seeing someone else die.
Stanley Kubrick

Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.

Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts inevitably bring about right results.
James Allen

Zest is the secret of all beauty. There is no beauty that is attractive without zest.
Christian Dior

Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.

They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
Herman Melville

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.
Marianne Williamson

Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.

I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.
Abigail Adams

Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.

The exciting part of acting, I don't know how else to explain it, are those moments when you surprise yourself.
Tom Cruise

I started being really proud of the fact that I was gay even though I wasn't.

There, in the chords and melodies, is everything I want to say. The words just jolly it along. It's always been my way of expressing what for me is inexpressible by any other means.
David Bowie

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

Get excited and enthusiastic about you own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire - you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away.

The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.
Carl Sagan

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.

But by reading them again and again finally I was able to grasp the essential part. What emotion, enthusiasm, enlightenment and confidence they communicated to me! I wept for joy.
Ho Chi Minh

A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pleasant belongs to dreams.

Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it.

I was elated, ecstatic and extremely surprised that we were successful.
Neil Armstrong

My favorite thing is to go where I've never been.
Diane Arbus