JOY

Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart.
Martin Luther King Jr.

With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bent arm for a pillow -- I have still joy in the midst of all these things.
Confucius

Joys divided are increased.
Josiah Gilbert Holland

I sometimes wander whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.
C. S. Lewis

Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.
Christian Nevell Bovee

What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they've taken away?
Logan Pearsall Smith

Joy runs deeper than despair
Corrie Ten Boom

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

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.
R. W. Dale

Happy is the person who not only sings, but feels God's eye is on the sparrow, and knows He watches over me. To be simply ensconced in God is true joy.
Alfred A. Montapert

The primary joy of life is acceptance, approval, the sense of appreciation and companionship of our human comrades. Many men do not understand that the need for fellowship is really as deep as the need for food, and so they go through life accepting many substitutes for genuine, warm, simple.
Joshua Loth Liebman

I have no greater joy then to hear that my children walk in truth. [John 4]
Bible

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

Unexplained joy is always so keen that... it seems to hold enough to reconcile one to the inevitable.
Jessie B. Fremont

Joy is free, unrestrained passion
Eileen Stukane

Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others, cannot keep it from themselves.
Sir James M. Barrie

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.
Robert Browning

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
Mother Teresa

Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.
Jean Paul

Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life.
William Congreve

Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice! [Philippians 4:4]
Bible

Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.
Dr. Melba Colgrove

We French found it and called it joie de vivre -- the joy of living.
Renee Repound

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

In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.
Henry Ward Beecher

All human joys are swift of wing, For heaven doth so allot it; That when you get an easy thing, You find you haven't got it.
Eugene Field

The joy in life is to be used for a purpose. I want to be used up when I die.
George Bernard Shaw

The surest mark of a Christian is not faith, or even love, but joy.
Samuel M. Shoemaker

'Tis so much joy! 'Tis so much joy! If I should fail, what poverty! And yet, as poor as I Have ventured all upon a throw; Have gained! Yes! Hesitated so this side the victory!
Emily Dickinson

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

The most profound joy has more of gravity than of gaiety in it.
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

For one mother, joy is the quiet pleasure found in gently rubbing shampoo into her young child's hair. For another woman it's taking a long walk alone, while for yet another it's reviling in a much -- anticipated vacation.
Eileen Stukane

The joy is that we can take back our bodies, reclaim our health, and restore ourselves to balance. We can take power over what and how we eat. We can rejuvenate and recharge ourselves, bringing healing to the wounds we carry inside us, and bringing to fuller life the wonderful person that each of us can be.
John Robbins

One joy scatters a hundred grieves.
Chinese Proverbs

May your joys be as deep as the ocean, your sorrows as light as its foam.
Source Unknown

One can endure sorrow alone, but it takes two to be glad.
Elbert Hubbard

The end of life is life. Life is action, the use of one's powers. And to use them to their height is our joy of duty.
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