Where there is joy there is creation. Where there is no joy there is no creation: know the nature of joy. ~ Veda
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them. ~ Kahlil Gibran Quotes
Troubles loom up big when they’re ahead, and joys seem always sweeter when they’re past. ~ Edgar Guest
This is a catastrophic universe, always; and subject to hidden reversals, upheavals, changes, cataclysms, with joy never anything but the song of substance under pressure forced into new forms and shapes. ~ Doris Lessing
They that sow in tears shall reap in joy. ~ The Holy Bible
There is no hope of joy except in human relations. ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something. ~ Henry Ford Quotes
The soul’s joy lies in doing. ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
The slave must be content with the joys of his master. ~ Arabian Proverbs
The less souls, the more joy. ~ Yiddish Proverbs
The joy of a poor man does not last long. ~ Brazilian Proverbs
The fear of death takes away the joy of living. ~ Ukrainian Proverbs
The fact is always obvious much too late, but the most singular difference between happiness and joy is that happiness is a solid and joy a liquid. ~ J. D. Salinger
The bridge between joy and sorrow is not long. ~ German Proverbs
The bitterness of joy lies in the knowledge that it cannot last. Nor should joy last beyond a certain season, for, after that season, even joy would become merely habit. ~ Tanith Lee
Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams. ~ Hosea Ballou
Sorrow is the child of too much joy. ~ Chinese Proverbs
Pleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within. ~ Eckhart Tolle
Perhaps there could be no joy on this planet without an equal weight of pain to balance it out on some unknown scale. ~ Stephanie Meyer
People come and go, pain comes and goes. But so does joy. And if our hearts are closed because we don’t want to suffer, they won’t be open enough to recognize the joy as it flies by. ~ Geneen Roth
Peace is the well from which the stream of joy runs. ~ Scottish Proverbs
Optimists find joy in small things. They enjoy sunsets, a good conversation with a close friend; and they enjoy life in general. They are more concerned with having many small joys rather than having one huge joy. ~ Robert M. Sherfield
One joy can drive away a hundred sorrows. ~ Japanese Proverbs
One does not live on joy or die of sorrow. ~ Yiddish Proverbs
Nothing equals the joy of the drinker, except the joy of the wine in being drunk. ~ French Proverbs
No joy without wine. ~ Hebrew Proverbs
Men are not put into this world to be everlastingly played on by the harping fingers of joy. ~ Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
Life itself cannot give you joy unless you really will it. Life just gives you time and space — It’s up to you to fill it. ~ Chinese Proverbs
Joy’s recollection is no longer joy, while Sorrow’s memory is a sorrow still. ~ Lord Byron Quotes
Joyfulness is half your health. ~ Czech Proverbs
Joy may be a miser, but Sorrow’s purse is free. ~ Richard Henry Stoddard
Joy is the best wine. ~ George Eliot Quotes
Joy is more divine than sorrow; for joy is bread, and sorrow is medicine. ~ Henry Ward Beecher
Joy is good–the angel’s food. ~ Caroline Spencer
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 Quotes
Joy and sorrow sleep in the same bed. ~ Czech Proverbs
Joy and sorrow are like milk and cookies. That’s how well they go together. ~ Neil Gaiman
Joy and grief are things of great hazard and danger in the life of man: The one breaks the heart; the other intoxicates the head. ~ Benjamin Whichcote
It is the sum of the million little unconscious dispositions that go to make life joyful or painful. ~ Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
It is a fine seasoning for joy to think of those we love. ~ Moliere
Is it that they fear the pain of death, or could it be they fear the joy of life? ~ Toad The Wet Sprocket
In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast. ~ Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
In the midst of great joy, do not promise anyone anything. In the midst of great anger, do not answer anyone’s letter. ~ Chinese Proverbs
If you get rich, be in a dark corner when you jump for joy. ~ African Proverbs
If I dream I have you, I have you, for; all our joys are but fantastical. ~ John Donne
I have drunken deep of joy, and I will taste no other wine tonight. ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
Hidden joy is an extinguished candle. ~ Spanish Proverbs
He who has not looked on Sorrow will never see Joy. ~ Kahlil Gibran Quotes
Happiness… it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort. ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
For sudden Joys, like Griefs, confound at first. ~ Daniel Defoe
For present joys are more to flesh and blood than a dull prospect of a distant good. ~ John Dryden
Cultivate more joy by arranging your life so that more joy will be likely. ~ Georgia Within
Count your joys instead of your woes; Count your friends instead of your foes. ~ Irish Sayings
Before the reward there must be labor. You plant before you harvest. You sow in tears before you reap joy. ~ Ralph Ransom
A wise teacher makes learning a joy. ~ Traditional Proverbs
A day of sorrow is longer than a month of joy. ~ Chinese Proverbs
