JOY QUOTES
quotations about joy
Grief can take care of itself; but to get the full value of a joy you must have someone to divide it with.
MARK TWAIN
The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson
He who has once been happy is for aye
Out of destruction's reach. His fortune then
Holds nothing secret; and Eternity,
Which is a mystery to other men,
Has like a woman given him its joy.
WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT
With Esther
The very society of joy redoubles it; so that whilst it lights upon my friend it rebounds upon myself, and the brighter his candle burns the more easily will it light mine.
ROBERT SOUTH
attributed, Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing
Pleasure's a Moth, that sleeps by day
And dances by false glare at night;
But Joy's a Butterfly, that loves
To spread its wings in Nature's light.
WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES
Joy and Pleasure
When you are joyful, when you say yes to life and have fun and project positivity all around you, you become a sun in the center of every constellation, and people want to be near you.
SHANNON L. ALDER
attributed, goodreads
For present joys are more to flesh and blood
Than a dull prospect of a distant good.
JOHN DRYDEN
The Hind and the Panther
I have drunken deep of joy,
And I will taste no other wine tonight.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
The Cenci
All recurring joy is pain refined.
AMY LOWELL
"A Fixed Idea", A Dome of Many-coloured Glass
Joy is our goal, our destiny. We cannot know who we are except in joy.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON
A Woman's Worth
A man who lives a virtuous life and in the pursuit of knowledge, may have great joy with only coarse rice to eat, water to drink, and his bended arm for a pillow.
CONFUCIUS
attributed, Day's Collacon
The fine art of Life is to make
Another Soul vibrate with a song of joy.
EDWIN LEIBFREED
"The Song of the Soul"
Joyful, all ye nations, rise.
Join the triumph of the skies.
CHARLES WESLEY
"Hark! The Herald Angels Sing"
Remember the wheel is always in motion, and the spoke that is uppermost will be under, and therefore mix trembling always with your joy.
PHILIP HENRY
The Life of the Rev. Philip Henry
Within your own house dwells the treasury of joy; so why do you go begging from door to door?
SUFI PROVERB
Joy and sorrow are like milk and cookies. That's how well they go together.
NEIL GAIMAN
American Gods
There are moments when I wish I could roll back the clock and take all the sadness away, but I have the feeling that if I did, the joy would be gone as well.
NICHOLAS SPARKS
A Walk to Remember
Joy is the vital air of the soul.
HENRI-FREDERIC AMIEL
Journal Intime
And shall I clutch at dear departing things
While leaf and tree in silent splendor part?
Go, little joys! and welcome, fluttering wings
That brush my clinging sorrows from my heart!
KARLE WILSON BAKER
"Heart's October", Blue Smoke
Joy to the world
All the boys and girls, now,
Joy to the fishes in the deep blue sea
Joy to you and me.
HOYT ACTON
"Joy to the World"
Joy is the best makeup.
ANNE LAMOTT
Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith