Joy Quotes
28 quotations about Joy
Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others, cannot keep it from themselves.
In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.
I have no greater joy then to hear that my children walk in truth. [John 4]
Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice! [Philippians 4:4]
Joy runs deeper than despair
Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.
I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river.
Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.
Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life.
For present joys are more to flesh and blood than a dull prospect of a distant good.
Joys divided are increased.
One can endure sorrow alone, but it takes two to be glad.
I sometimes wander whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.
The most profound joy has more of gravity than of gaiety in it.
Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.
Joy has this in common with pain, that it robs people of reason.
One joy scatters a hundred grieves.
The joys we expect are not so bright, nor the troubles so dark as we fancy they will be.
We French found it and called it joie de vivre -- the joy of living.
The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.
The joy in life is to be used for a purpose. I want to be used up when I die.
The surest mark of a Christian is not faith, or even love, but joy.
What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they've taken away?
Joy is free, unrestrained passion
Joy is a subtle elf; I think one's happiest when he forgets himself.
Authors on Joy
Sir James M. Barrie
Henry Ward Beecher
Bible
Corrie Ten Boom
Christian Nevell Bovee
Chinese Proverb
Chuang Tzu
Dr. Melba Colgrove
William Congreve
John Dryden
Josiah Gilbert Holland
Elbert Hubbard
C. S. Lewis
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
Jean Paul
Platen
Charles Reade
Renee Repound
Jim Rohn
George Bernard Shaw