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Joy Quotes

Someone rightly said that joy is the absence of struggles in life. All the endless struggles that a man undergoes are in his attempt to experience joy. But what most people forget that life is the way you take it and creating a life of joy depends completely on your strategies and approach towards situations. The joy, which comes from personal satisfaction and love, not only multiplies with success or achievements but with true pleasure of giving, caring and most importantly letting others live. Read the following joy quotes to feel spirit of it.

Leonardo da Vinci

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

Jonathan Groff

Just follow your joy. Always. I think that if you do that, life will take you on the course that it's meant to take you.

Charles Dickens

The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.

William Blake

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.

Life Sun
Lao Tzu

Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.

Pearl S. Buck

The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.

The thrill of performing - that's something that hasn't changed for me. That simultaneous joy of creating something and sharing it with an audience - it's the same now as it was then, when it was just my cousins' birthday party.

Life had stopped for her a long time ago. She was so out of touch with her feelings that she had no joy in her life and no concept of the fact that she could be wrong. She delivered her care of her insane patients in a killing manner, but she was convinced she was right.

William Blake

When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy, And the dimpling stream runs laughing by; When the air does laugh with our merry wit, And the green hill laughs with the noise of it.

Walter Scott

Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.

Pearl S. Buck

To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.

I lost that excitement I had when I first started out. It was all about the need to just get a job, and so I found the joy again when I was writing Deuce Bigelow. I was laughing so hard and along with my writing partner at the time, simply laughing until we cried.

William Butler Yeats

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

Thomas Merton

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

William Arthur Ward

Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.

We made our entrance into Paris. As for honors, we received all that we could possibly imagine; but they, though very well in their way, were not what touched me most. What was really affecting was the tenderness and earnestness of the poor people, who, in spite of the taxes with which they are overwhelmed, were transported with joy at seeing us.

Lord Byron

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

Joseph Campbell

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

Rabindranath Tagore

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

Jonathan Groff

Make sure that you always follow your heart and your gut, and let yourself be who you want to be, and who you know you are. And don't let anyone steal your joy.

Joseph Campbell

Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.

Pearl S. Buck

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

Eudora Welty

The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.

Liam Neeson

Every cliche about kids is true; they grow up so quickly, you blink and they're gone, and you have to spend the time with them now. But that's a joy.

Time Parenting
James Brown

When I'm on stage, I'm trying to do one thing: bring people joy. Just like church does. People don't go to church to find trouble, they go there to lose it.

Emily Dickinson

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

Living Life
Tim Curry

There's nothing more daunting than a musical, but there's also no more direct line to joy. Getting there, though, is like pushing treacle up stairs.

Ellen DeGeneres

We need more kindness, more compassion, more joy, more laughter. I definitely want to contribute to that.

Salvador Dali

Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali.

Sarah Jessica Parker

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.

Why a musician loves playing jazz or classical music or what makes them happy, and why an artist likes to paint - it's so hard to actually put into words what that feeling is of joy that we get, but that is what I get: a feeling of joy when the camera is rolling, even if I'm doing something that is not joyous.

Denis Villeneuve

I have joy. Canadians have the reputation of making dark movies because we are in this society where we have the space to explore darkness. That's the way I see it.

Mackenzie Davis

I'm not a runner, and I always dreamed about just throwing on my sneakers and really knocking everyone's socks off with my joy of traversing the world by foot.

Robert Burns

The joy of my heart is to 'study men, their manners, and their ways,' and for this darling object I cheerfully sacrifice every other consideration.

Osama bin Laden

I heard about the bombings the same way everyone else heard about them, from the television or radio. I did not order them but was very glad for what happened to the Americans there.

Terri Guillemets

Angels sail back to God on the sea of joy.

Neil Armstrong

Pilots take no special joy in walking. Pilots like flying.

Amanda Holden

I am an optimist. I think, as bad as life sometimes gets, there is so much joy and so much good stuff, that there is a balance.

Salvador Dali

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

Sandra Day O'Connor

Justice Ginsburg is a very competent justice, and it is a joy to have her on the court, but particularly for me it is a pleasure to have a second woman on the court.

Halsey

I write songs very quickly, so the 20 minutes of joy I get out of writing a song doesn't compare to the two months of joy I get engaging with the people who like my music.

James Stewart

I'd like to do Harvey again. I did it two years ago with Helen Hayes in New York. It was a joy. I was so glad to do it again because I never thought I did it right the first time.

Mel Gibson

Life is life, and one has experiences that are painful and some that are very pleasant, and one has reward and sacrifice and more reward and disappointment and joy and happiness, and it's always going to be the same.

Soren Kierkegaard

There are, as is known, insects that die in the moment of fertilization. So it is with all joy: life's highest, most splendid moment of enjoyment is accompanied by death.

Anais Nin

I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by which I cannot live in, make love to, possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy.

Albert Einstein

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

James M. Barrie

I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.

Mike Wallace

It's astonishing what you learn and feel and see along the way. That's why a reporter's job, as you know, is such a joy.

Liam Neeson

It's an ongoing joy being a dad.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.

Walter Scott

One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.

Kevin Costner

I enjoy sports. I get a real joy from playing sports but I don't look for those movies. Oliver Stone wanted to know if I would do Any Given Sunday and it just didn't appeal to me.

W. H. Auden

In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.

Reese Witherspoon

The joy we get as actors is out of transforming ourselves into something that's not necessarily anything true to ourselves. And it's a power - not being yourself, and being in the role; it's just like another prop.

Garrison Keillor

A good newspaper is never nearly good enough but a lousy newspaper is a joy forever.

Henry Ward Beecher

The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy.

World Sun
Pierce Brosnan

The spy genre is something which, as a fan of movies, a movie geek myself, I just love that cinematic joy that they bring.

Love Movies
Jean-Claude Van Damme

I'm not complaining about doing 20-hour days. It's a joy to be able to work on yet another film.

William Wordsworth

With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.

Ilaiyaraaja

Good music is made with the help of many musicians who express their joy in the swaras.

Jonathan Groff

It's so easy to get the joy sucked out of you.

Audre Lorde

The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic, or intellectual, forms a bridge between the sharers which can be the basis for understanding much of what is not shared between them, and lessens the threat of their difference.

Edinson Cavani

When you reach the moment to score, it is like liberating different emotions such as joy, happiness, and also satisfaction.

Pope Francis

Christmas is joy, religious joy, an inner joy of light and peace.

Henry Ford

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

Helen Keller

The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.

Chris Pine

Musical theater is great; you get painted up, you get to play princesses and witches, and you sing. The joy alone of that can really carry a lot.

Greatness Lonliness
Val Kilmer

That's the joy of art - it should be dangerous and challenging but it's just art - it's safe.

William Butler Yeats

Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.

Obstacles
Anatole France

Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.

Laurence Sterne

So much of motion, is so much of life, and so much of joy, and to stand still, or get on but slowly, is death and the devil.

Camila Alves

My most joy that I have is dancing.

Jeff Bridges

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.

Helen Keller

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

Disney, who brought joy, arguably, to billions of people, was, perhaps, or had some... racist proclivities. He formed and supported an anti-Semitic industry lobby. And he was certainly, on the evidence of his company's policies, a gender bigot.

Debbie Reynolds

We didn't have any real proper school. We did not have a place to go to learn to dance and the joy of dancing.

Dancing
William Blake

Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind.

Henry Miller

Whatever I do is done out of sheer joy; I drop my fruits like a ripe tree. What the general reader or the critic makes of them is not my concern.

Tree
William Blake

Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.

John Dryden

Seek not to know what must not be reveal, for joy only flows where fate is most concealed. A busy person would find their sorrows much more; if future fortunes were known before!

Tom Stoppard

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.

Sandra Bullock

False expectations take away joy.

C. S. Lewis

Joy is the serious business of Heaven.

Khalil Gibran

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

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Whoever loves above all the approach of love will never know the joy of attaining it.

H. P. Lovecraft

To the scientist there is the joy in pursuing truth which nearly counteracts the depressing revelations of truth.

Steve Carell

For me, at least, all of my career goals, all of my focus, everything just shifted and the importance was my children, and that's where all the joy came from as well.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor's nose.

Elbert Hubbard

The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.

Rosamund Pike

Acting is about communicating what it is like to be human: the pain, the laughs, the misery, the joy. I suppose I am searching to have it all.

William Blake

I have no name: I am but two days old. What shall I call thee? I happy am, Joy is my name. Sweet joy befall thee!

James Russell Lowell

Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how.

Stellan Skarsgard

Of course, working with Halle Berry is fantastic. Every day, you're looking at a performance that you would be prepared to pay to watch. She's truly great and truthful, and it's a joy.

Virginia Woolf

Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.

Chuck Palahniuk

Discovering the 'impossible' ending to a new book makes me sick with joy and relief.

Bertrand Russell

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.

Carl Sandburg

Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.

Mel Brooks

Dom DeLuise was a big man in every way. He was big in size and created big laughter and joy.

Honoré de Balzac

Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.