Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jack Kerouac

The more ups and downs, the more joy I feel. The greater the fear, the greater the happiness I feel.

Jack Kerouac

The first sip [of tea] is joy, the second is gladness, the third is serenity, the fourth is madness, the fifth is ecstasy.

Me and Joyous always work really well together. We can just read each other.

Kelsey Grammer

It is always a joy to be nominated,

I'm speechless. I'm so overwhelmed with joy that I get this opportunity.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

There is no hope of joy except in human relations.

C. S. Lewis

Pity was meant to be a spur that drives joy to help misery. But it can be used the wrong way round. It can be used for a kind of blackmailing. Those who choose misery can hold joy up to ransom, by pity.

C. S. Lewis

Praise is the mode of love which always has some element of joy in it.

Cathy Rigby

Flying is such a joy. You just want to hoot.

Bill Vaughan

Sorrows when shared are less burdensome, though joys divided are increased.

Mira Nair

That's the joy I have as a filmmaker, that's what I love to do. I'm very fortunate.

William Shakespeare

I wish you all the joy you can wish.

Jane Roberts

I will be unneeded, and gladly so, when you realize that the vitality and reinforcement and joy are your own, and rise from the fountain of your own beings; when you realize that you do not need me for protection, for there is nothing you need protect yourself against.

Fulton J. Sheen

Help someone in distress and you lighten your own burden; the very joy of alleviating the sorrow of another is the lessening of one's own.

Christian Lous Lange

Within each such social group, a feeling of solidarity prevails, a compelling need to work together and a joy in doing so that represent a high moral value.

Chris Hemsworth

Any time you have someone come up and say they love what you do and they get great joy from it is a very humbling experience.

Gertrude Stein

This joy you feel is life.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Don't be gloomy. Even if you are not happy, put a smile on your face. [Life is about] joy,... something to be happy and excited about.

Herman Melville

The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.

Herman Melville

But even so, amid the tornadoed Atlantic of my being, do I myself still for ever centrally disport in mute calm; and while ponderous planets of unwaning woe revolve round me, deep down and deep inland there I still bathe me in eternal mildness of joy.

Henry David Thoreau

We are superior to the joy we experience.

Jeff Smith

Most seafoods should be simply threatened with heat and then celebrated with joy.

Goldie Hawn

We have to embrace obstacles to reach the next stage of joy

Goldie Hawn

We are born with the seed of joy; it is up to us to nurture it.

Golda Meir

Being seventy is not a sin. It's not a joy, either.

Girolamo Savonarola

The gloom of the world is but a shadow; behind it, yet within our reach, is joy. Take joy.

Harriet Lerner

Pretending can be a bold form of experimentation and inventiveness. In pretending joy or happiness, we may discover or enhance our capacity for it.

Harper Lee

As a reader I loathe introductions...Introductions inhibit pleasure, they kill the joy of anticipation, they frustrate curiosity.

Ignatius of Loyola

As for joy, as little as one can have of it in this life, experience shows that it is not the idle who possess it, but those who are zealous in the service of God.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Joy makes us giddy, dizzy.

James Broughton

The most astonishing joy is to receive from the muses the gift of a whole lyric.

James Broughton

The quietest poetry can be an explosion of joy.

We are all strings in the concert of God's joy.