Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gene Robinson

What a joy it is to have you here,

Edgar Guest

Tomorrow--there's no day so fair, It knows no sorrow; A day that banishes despair, Joy rules tomorrow.

Benjamin Franklin

Joy doesn't exist in the world, it exists in us.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Great sorrow or great joy should bring intense hunger--not abstinence from food, as our novelists will have it.

Arundhati Roy

Anything's possible in Human Nature ...Love. Madness. Hope. Infinite joy.

Diana Vreeland

I wonder about prisoners. They're told, "You are free, you are innocent, you can go anywhere." I'm sure they usually feel nothing. They don't burst into tears or hysterics or joy or "I told you so." It's nothing. To be on the straight path isn't a bloody thing. It's just ordinary.

Work life has taken over normal life, yet it's been stripped of humor, joy and pleasure.

Alexandre Dumas

...joy takes a strange effect at times, it seems to oppress us almost the same as sorrow.

Albert Schweitzer

If you truly desire happiness, seek and learn how to serve.

Albert Schweitzer

There is within each of us a modulation, an inner exaltation, which lifts us above the buffetings with which events assail us. Likewise, it lifts us above dependence upon the gifts of events for our joy.

Madam Ambassador, it's been a joy to work with you while you were at the United Nations.

Greg Boyle

The poor evangelize you about what's important and what is the Gospel, and that that's where the joy is.

Brian Weiss

The more you go within, the more you understand your true nature, and the more joy and happiness you feel in your life.

Bodhidharma

All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.

Joy comes to us in moments--ordina ry moments. We risk missing out on joy when we get too busy chasing down the extraordinary.

If we don’t allow ourselves to experience joy and love, we will definitely miss out on filling our reservoir with what we need when. . . . hard things happen.

When we lose our tolerance for vulnerability, joy becomes foreboding.

Charles Spurgeon

Obedience to the will of God is the pathway to perpetual honor and everlasting joy.

Dennis Prager

The more things that can bring you joy in life, the better

Denholm Elliott

The conventionality of the English is something I find unattractive - the whole lack of joy in the physical.

Dean Ornish

Joy of living is sustainable; fear of dying is not.

Dean Koontz

No one's life should be rooted in fear. We are born for wonder, for joy, for hope, for love, to marvel at the mystery of existence, to be ravished by the beauty of the world, to seek truth and meaning, to acquire wisdom, and by our treatment of others to brighten the corner where we are.

Daniel Handler

Grammar is the greatest joy in life, don't you find?

Dan Barker

There is joy in rationality, happiness in clarity of mind. Freethought is thrilling and fulfilling - absolutely essential to mental health and happiness.

Elizabeth I

The doubt of future foes exiles my present joy.

Brandon Sanderson

Joy was more than just an absence of discomfort.

Barbara Mertz

a church ought to express the joy of religion as well as its majesty.

Ayn Rand

It was the joy of admiration and of one's own ability, growing together.

Charles Fillmore

We shall serve for the joy of serving, prosperity shall flow to us and through us in unending streams of plenty.

Edward Abbey

Has joy any survival value in the operations of evolution? I suspect that it does; I suspect that the morose and fearful are doomed to quick extinction. Where there is no joy there can be no courage; and without courage all other virtues are useless.

Edward Abbey

A giant thirst is a great joy when quenched in time.

Ben Jonson

True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.

Elizabeth Bibesco

Talk about the joys of the unexpected, can they compare with the joys of the expected, of finding everything delightfully and completely what you knew it was going to be?