Joy Quotes

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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

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