Joy Quotes - page 3

Commissions suit me. They set limits. Jean Marais dared me to write play in which he would not speak in the first act, would weep for joy in the second and in the last would fall backward down a flight of stairs. (Jean Cocteau)
Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give. View quote
Eleanor Roosevelt
I have drunken deep of joy, And I will taste no other wine tonight. View quote
Percy Bysshe Shelley
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. View quote
Albert Einstein
Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift. View quote
Albert Einstein
Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow. View quote
Honoré de Balzac
Pleasant it is, when over a great sea the winds trouble the waters, to gaze from shore upon another's great tribulation; not because any man's troubles are a delectable joy, but because to perceive you are free of them yourself is pleasant. View quote
Lucretius
The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again. View quote
Charles Dickens
The poet's expression of joy conceals his despair at not having found the reality of joy. View quote
Max Jacob
Joy, happiness, are hopes and our dreams.... A place of peace and harmony... that's the kind of land I invision. View quote
Masashi Kishimoto
Gratitude helps you to grow and expand; gratitude brings joy and laughter into your life and into the lives of all those around you. (Eileen Caddy)
There is no joy equal to that of being able to work for all humanity and doing what you're doing well. View quote
Buckminster Fuller
The joy of losing consists in this: Where there are no expectations, there is no disappointment. View quote
Charles Krauthammer
Being, not doing, is my first joy. View quote
Theodore Roethke
If things don't come easy, there is no premium on effort. There should be joy in the chase, zest in the pursuit. View quote
Branch Rickey
Peace is the beauty of life. It is sunshine. It is the smile of a child, the love of a mother, the joy of a father, the togetherness of a family. It is the advancement of man, the victory of a just cause, the triumph of truth. Peace is all of these and more and more. View quote
Menachem Begin
It is in these acts called trivialities that the seeds of joy are forever wasted, until men and women look round with haggard faces at the devastation their own waste has made, and say, the earth bears no harvest of sweetness calling their denial knowled. View quote
George Eliot
My own experience and development deepen everyday my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy. View quote
George Eliot
Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another. View quote
Ayn Rand
Joy always came after pain. View quote
Guillaume Apollinaire
Something the heart must have to cherish, Must love and joy and sorrow learn Something with passion clasp, or perish And in itself to ashes burn. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life. View quote
Merle Shain
Time means a lot to me because, you see, I, too, am also a learner and am often lost in the joy of forever developing and simplifying. If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of. View quote
Bruce Lee
To the scientist there is the joy in pursuing truth which nearly counteracts the depressing revelations of truth. View quote
H. P. Lovecraft
Labour without joy is base. Labour without sorrow is base. Sorrow without labour is base. Joy without labour is base. View quote
John Ruskin
đŸ“– Joy Proverbs