This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.
George Bernard Shaw
Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
Mother Teresa
Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.
William Shakespeare
The most profound joy has more of gravity than of gaiety in it.
Michel de Montaigne
Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Talk of joy: there may be things better than beef stew and baked potatoes and home-made bread - there may be.
David Gayson
There are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind them when they go.
Jean Paul Richter
May your walls know joy; May every room hold laughter and every window open to great possibility.
Maryanne Radmacher Hershey
There is no time like the pleasant.
Oliver Herford
In a restaurant one is both observed and unobserved. Joy and sorrow can be displayed and observed "unwittingly," the writer scowling naively and the diners wondering, What the hell is he doing?
David Mamet
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.
James Brown
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!
Jerry Van Amerongen
Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile.
Sir Wilfred Grenfell
My mind to me a kingdom is, Such present joys therein I find, That it excels all other bliss.
Sir Edward Dyer
Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing.
Phil Jackson
I'm delirious with joy. It proves that if you confront the universe with good intentions in your heart, it will reflect that and reward your intent. Usually. It just doesn't always do it in the way you expect.
J. Michael Straczynski
I found more joy in sorrow than you could find in joy.
Sara Teasdale
Give not over thy soul to sorrow; and afflict not thyself in thy own counsel. Gladness of heart is the life of man and the joyfulness of man is length of days.
Ecclesiastes
There is no greater joy nor greater reward than to make a fundamental difference in someone's life.
Sister Mary Rose McGeady
The only joy in the world is to begin.
Cesare Pavese
When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.
Stanislaw J. Lec
There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.
Pearl S. Buck
Do not judge men by mere appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy.
Edward Chapin
Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how.
James Russell Lowell
Never trust the man who tells you all his troubles but keeps from you all his joys.
Jewish Proverb
Sorrow is brief but joy is endless.
Friedrich von Schiller
Taking joy in life is a woman's best cosmetic.
Rosalind Russell
One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge.
Robert Lynd
Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
Mark Twain
Cease, every joy, to glimmer on my mind, But leave---oh! leave the light of Hope behind.
Thomas Campbell
Simplicity, clarity, singleness: These are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness and joy as they are also the marks of great art. They seem to be the purpose of God for his whole creation.
Richard Holloway
Joy is not in things; it is in us.
Richard Wagner
The joy of a spirit is the measure of its power.
Ninon de Lenclos
My mind to me a kingdom is; Such present joys therein I find that it excels all other bliss that earth affords or grows by kind.
Sir Edward Dyer
All human joys are swift of wing, For heaven doth so allot it; That when you get an easy thing, You find you haven't got it.
Eugene Field
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