Joy Quotes

When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.

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.

Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.

May your walls know joy; May every room hold laughter and every window open to great possibility.

I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.

During [these] periods of relaxation after concentrated intellectual activity, the intuitive mind seems to take over and can produce the sudden clarifying insights which give so much joy and delight.

I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!

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.

The most profound joy has more of gravity than of gaiety in it.

Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

My mind to me a kingdom is,
Such present joys therein I find,
That it excels all other bliss.

Cease, every joy, to glimmer on my mind,
But leave---oh! leave the light of Hope behind.