Top 1200 Real Joy Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

The pain of life overrides the joy to the point that joy does not exist.

No joy in nature is so sublimely affecting as the joy of a mother at the good fortune of a child.

I like to write about real people, real crimes. But what has increasingly come to interest me, and also appear to me as a challenge, is the idea of doing strange things with what is real. Take what is real and make it more or less real.

Paint with joy - with the same joy that you would make love to a woman.

Let every hindrance to joy become the soil out of which joy blossoms.

Joy can only be real if people look upon their life as a service and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.

This is the basis for the joy of love when there is joy; we feel that our existence is justified.

I am a hopeless romantic. A silly, ridiculous, foolish romantic. I live in a fantasy land. I need to get real. And now, for the first time, I want to get real. I want a real relationship with a real man in the real world–-with all the real problems, faults, and whatever comes with it.

The poet's expression of joy conceals his despair at not having found the reality of joy.

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

Joy:show joy & enjoy: then others will be joyful.

We try so hard to hold onto our stuff. We call it our treasure and expect to feel joy. But in God’s economy if we want to gain, we must give up. For joy won’t ever be found in collecting treasures. Joy radiates in our life only when we share our treasures.

For me, music is my joy. It's my happiness. As long as this medicine, this chemo is in my body, I didn't have my love, my joy.

Our joy in Him may be a fluctuating thing: His joy in us knows no change.

When one is giving service for the advancement of humanity, when one is working without money and without price, with no hope of earthly reward, there comes a real, genuine joy into the human heart.

Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.

True joy comes only from God and He shares this joy with those who walk in fellowship with Him.

There's a great joy in my giving. It's thrilling. It's exhilarating. It's important to be a part of sharing. It is my love. It is my joy.

The song stands for a sense of joy in existence, a joy that is free of any good or bad choices.

I get very excited about my double stroller. Every time I look at it, I get a shot of adrenaline and joy because I think, This is real!

How much better is it to weep at joy than to joy at weeping?

Truth illuminates and gives joy; and it is by the bond of joy, not of pleasure, that men's spirits are indissolubly held.

Freedom, peace, and inner joy will continue to elude us until we become aware of our real truth, without hiding ourselves or being ashamed of what we are.

The difference between shallow happiness and a deep, sustaining joy is sorrow. Happiness lives where sorrow is not. When sorrow arrives, happiness dies. It can't stand pain. Joy, on the other hand, rises from sorrow and therefore can withstand all grief. Joy, by the grace of God, is the transfiguration of suffering into endurance, and of endurance into character, and of character into hope--and the hope that has become our joy does not (as happiness must for those who depend up on it) disappoint us.

The real joy is in constructing a sentence. But I see myself as an actor first because writing is what you do when you are ready and acting is what you do when someone else is ready.

It is the experiences, the great triumphant joy of living to the fullest extent in which real meaning is found. God it's great to be alive!

People search for joy everywhere not knowing that the Self is the source of all joy

The idea, shared by many, that life is a vale of tears, is just as false as the idea shared by the great majority, the idea to which youth and health and riches incline you, that life is a place of entertainment. Life is a place of service, and in that service one has to suffer a great deal that is hard to bear, but more often to experience a great deal of joy. But that joy can be real only if people look upon their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.

To me, the most important part of winning is joy. You can win without joy, but winning that’s joyless is like eating in a four-star restaurant when you’re not hungry. Joy is a current of energy in your body, like chlorophyll or sunlight, that fills you up and makes you naturally want to do your best.

What she wants to say has to do not only with joy but with the penetrating, constant fear that is joy's other half.

I had joy always, because 'the joy of the Lord is my strength.' I mean, that is the truth.

If beef is your idea of 'real food for real people,' you'd better live real close to a real good hospital.

There are thousands of books on the joy of gardening and cooking. Alas, there are only few on the joy of living.

I found more joy in sorrow than you could find in joy.

If beef is your idea of 'real food for real people', you'd better live real close to a real good hospital.

My joy is the golden sunset giving thanks for another day. Gratitude itself is a source of joy.

Long ago I lost the joy in living. The only joy I have is in my giving.

The logic of cross and resurrection, of the new creation which gives shape to all truly Christian living, points in a different direction. And one of the central names for that direction is joy: the joy of relationships healed as well as enhanced, the joy of belonging to the new creation, of finding not what we already had but what god was longing to give us.

The real joy in life comes from giving. It comes from service. It comes from doing things for other people. That is what is so powerful about this. Nothing will make you happier than giving.

With WesTrac, you have real people doing real jobs with real problems and real opportunities, and you touch the metal, and it's like being grounded.

I've been through some dark times but I've experienced joy too. Now that joy can't be suppressed.

If thou do ill, the joy fades, not the pains. If well, the pain doth fade, the joy remains.

A Christian is never bored or sad. Rather, the one who loves Christ is full of joy and radiates joy.

... what the artist or creative scientist feels is not anxiety or fear; it is joy. I use the word in contrast to happiness or pleasure. The artist, at the moment of creating, does not experience gratification or satisfaction... Rather, it is joy, joy defined as the emotion that goes with heightened consciousness, the mood that accompanies the experience of actualizing one's own potentialities.

The Romney candidacy is better than it was four years ago, but it's not clear that it's good. Mitt needs to get good real fast: A real speech, real plan, real responses, and real fire in the belly.

"Joy" is based, albeit loosely, on the life of Joy Mangano, an entrepreneur, inventor and QVC shopping network star with the mega-selling Miracle Mop. Jennifer Lawrence is excellent as Joy, but the film starts off on the wrong foot with woeful depictions of her background as the only sane person in her dysfunctional family.

... in the long run, there can be no joy for anybody until there is joy finally for us all

It is the chief joy of all holy beings to witness the joy and happiness of those around them.

The real world is the fantasy writer's scrapbook. Real history, real geography, real customs and religions are all invaluable sources of guidance and inspiration.

There is in India a story of a dying youth who, hearing the sobs of grief around him, cried: Insult me not with your cries of sympathy. When I soar to the land of eternal light and love; it is I who should feel for you. For me, disease, shattering of bones, sorrow, excruciating heartaches no more. I dream joy, I glide in joy, I breathe in joy evermore.

This had been real: real in its flaws and uncertainties, real in its small triumphs, real in its compromises and understanding.

My life is good because I am not passive about it. I invest in what is real. Like real people, to do real things, for the real me.

You have to sniff out joy. Keep your nose to the joy trail.

For me, the joy of doing it is doodling when I want to. But if I had to do it, I'd lose the joy.

Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day.

There is a real joy to be able to get up and react to each other and appreciate the whole being greater than the sum of the parts, just the chemistry of the group.

We are not masochists - the cross is not an end in itself; it is for glory. We Christians are not looking for suffering, but for joy. God, living in joy, wanted to communicate it to all people. This is why he sent it down into our misery, nailing it to the cross. At that point, the cross became the way toward joy. Christianity is not at all morality and prohibitions - first and foremost it is wonder before things.

If you fold your clothes in the formal spark of joy, you can actually make the joy last longer.

I want the joy of knowing that I am doing something with my life, the joy of battle.

Every day has its great grief or its small anxiety. ... One cloud is dispelled, another forms. There is hardly one day in a hundred of real joy and bright sunshine.