Quotes

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
-Kahlil Gibran

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
-Thich Nhat Hanh

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.
-Marcus Tullius Cicero

We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.
-Helen Keller

There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behaviour, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.
-Albert Einstein

Understanding of our fellow human beings... becomes fruitful only when it is sustained by sympathetic feelings in joy and sorrow.
-Albert Einstein

If I take my whole, passionate, spiritual and physical love to the woman who in return loves me, that is how I serve God. And my hymn and my game of joy is my work.
-D.H. Lawrence

There is no hope of joy except in human relations.
-Antoine de Saint-Exupery

I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.
-John D. Rockefeller

Nothing I've ever done has given me more joys and rewards than being a father to my children.
-Bill Cosby

There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.
-Aeschylus

There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.
-Kahlil Gibran

There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
-Henry Ford

The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.
-Pearl S. Buck

He who has not looked on Sorrow will never see Joy.
-Kahlil Gibran

With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.
-William Wordsworth

It is a fine seasoning for joy to think of those we love.
-Moliere

I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let's face it, friends make life a lot more fun.
-Charles R. Swindoll

Count your joys instead of your woes, Count your friends instead of your foes.
-Irish Sayings

Happiness... it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.
-Franklin D. Roosevelt

Joy is the best makeup.
-Anne Lamott

A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
-John Keats

The deeper that sorrow carves into your being the more joy you can contain. Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter's oven?
-Kahlil Gibran

The soul's joy lies in doing.
-Percy Bysshe Shelley

Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.
-William Shakespeare

True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.
-Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof.
-Richard Bach

If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.... I get most joy in life out of music.
-Albert Einstein

We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.
-Helen Keller

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.
-Eleanor Roosevelt

Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.
-Kahlil Gibran

Friendship doubles our joy and divides our grief.
-Swedish Proverb

If the essence of my being has caused a smile to have appeared upon your face or a touch of joy within your heart.Then in living - I have made my mark.
-Thomas L. Odem, Jr

Thoughts give joy when they speak or act. Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them.
-Buddha

I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.
-Rabindranath Tagore