Quotes about Joy

“Joy, has no cost.”

“Joys divided are increased.”

“Joy runs deeper than despair”

“Joy is free, unrestrained passion”

“Joy is not in things, it is in us.”

“One joy scatters a hundred grieves.”

“Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.”

“Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.”

“Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life.”

“One can endure sorrow alone, but it takes two to be glad.”

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

“Joy has this in common with pain, that it robs people of reason.”

“The surest mark of a Christian is not faith, or even love, but joy.”

“joy's a subtle elf, I think man's happiest when he forgets himself.”

“We French found it and called it joie de vivre -- the joy of living.”

“I sometimes wander whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.”

“The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.”

“The joy in life is to be used for a purpose. I want to be used up when I die.”

“What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they've taken away?”

“Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others, cannot keep it from themselves.”

“For present joys are more to flesh and blood than a dull prospect of a distant good.”

“In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.”

“Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.”

“The joys we expect are not so bright, nor the troubles so dark as we fancy they will be.”

“I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river.”

“Unexplained joy is always so keen that... it seems to hold enough to reconcile one to the inevitable.”

“Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile.”

“Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. A joyful heart is the inevitable result of a heart burning with love”

“We ask God to forgive us for our evil thoughts and evil temper, but rarely, if ever ask Him to forgive us for our sadness.”

“Oh the wild joys of living! The leaping from rock to rock ... the cool silver shock of the plunge in a pool's living waters.”