JOY QUOTES

• There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.
  ~ Aeschylus ~
• There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. The dark background which death supplies brings out the tender colors of life in all their purity.
  ~ George Santayana ~
• The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day runs through the world and dances in rhythmic measures. It is the same life that shoots in joy through the dust of the earth in numberless blades of grass and breaks into tumultuous waves of leaves and flowers. It is the same life that is rocked in the ocean-cradle of birth and of death, in ebb and in flow. I feel my limbs are made glorious by the touch of this world of life. And my pride is from the life-throb of ages dancing in my blood this moment.
  ~ Rabindranath Tagore ~
• The glory of friendship is not the outstreched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.
  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
• I wish you all the joy you can wish.
  ~ William Shakespeare ~
• Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.
  ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe ~
• The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.
  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
• I am not an accident neither will I cause an accident in your life. I was created to be a blessing and a joy to you.
  ~ Queen Shalom Ebere Anthony ~
• The happiest day is the day I'll joyfully and submissively meet my Maker, knowing fully that I've painted my Smile on the walls of this Earth.
  ~ Muhammad Awwal Zakari Brainbox ~
• Marriage is not to be managed but enjoyed. If marriage is constantly managed it may lead to divorce.
  ~ Jude Chukwuemeka Muoneke ~
• Yesterday is history, tomorrow is future and unknown, so enjoy every second of today.
  ~ Llewellyn Douglas ~
• What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty.
  ~ Edmund Spenser ~
• This quote reminds me to enjoy each moment of the summer Steep thyself in a bowl of summertime.
  ~ Virgil ~
• Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too.
  ~ Voltaire ~
• There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
  ~ George Santayana ~
• There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval
  ~ George Santayana ~
• There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.
  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
• There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.
  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
• The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.
  ~ William Blake ~
• The mere sense of living is joy enough.
  ~ Emily Dickinson ~
• The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction.
  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
• The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
  ~ Joseph Addison ~
• The dark today leads into light tomorrow; There is no endless joy, ...and yet no endless sorrow.
  ~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox ~
• Some men never seem to grow old. Always active in thought, always ready to adopt new ideas, they are never chargeable with foggyism. Satisfied, yet ever dissatisfied, settled, yet ever unsettled, they always enjoy the best of what is, are the first to find the best of what will be.
  ~ William Shakespeare ~
• Silence is the perfectest herald of joy I were but little happy, if I could say how much.
  ~ William Shakespeare ~
• Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything.
  ~ Willa Cather ~
• My mind to me a kingdom is, Such present joys therein I find, That it excels all other bliss.
  ~ Sir Edward Dyer ~
• My mind to me a kingdom is, Such present joys therein I find, That it excels all other bliss.
  ~ Sir Edward Dyer ~
• Much learning shows how little mortals know; much wealth, how little worldings enjoy.
  ~ Edward Young ~
• May the gods grant you all things which your heart desires, and may they give you a husband and a home and gracious concord, for there is nothing greater and better than this -when a husband and wife keep a household in oneness of mind, a great woe to their enemies and joy to their friends, and win high renown.
  ~ Homer ~
• Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
  ~ Samuel Butler ~
• Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
  ~ D. H. Lawrence ~
• Life should begin with age and its privileges and accumulations, and end with youth and its capacity to splendidly enjoy such advantages.
  ~ Henry David Thoreau ~
• Let the coming hour overflow with joy, and let pleasure drown the brim.
  ~ William Shakespeare ~
• Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.
  ~ Carl Sandburg ~
• Laughter, while it lasts, slackens and unbraces the mind, weakens the faculties and causes a kind of remissness and dissolution in all the powers of the soul; and thus it may be looked on as weakness in the composition of human nature. But if we consider the frequent reliefs we receive from it and how often it breaks the gloom which is apt to depress the mind and damp our spirits, with transient, unexpected gleams of joy, one would take care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life.
  ~ Joseph Addison ~
• If thou desire not to be poor, desire not to be too rich. He is rich, not that possesses much, but he that covets no more; and he is poor, not that enjoys little, but he that wants too much. The contented mind wants nothing which it hath not; the covetous mind wants, not only what it hath not, but likewise what it hath.
  ~ Francis Quarles ~
• If the day and the night are such that you greet them with with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, more elastic, more starry, more immortal--that is your success.
  ~ Henry David Thoreau ~
• I live in the crowds of jollity, not so much to enjoy company as to shun myself.
  ~ Samuel Johnson ~
• I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!
  ~ Louise Bogan ~
• I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy
  ~ Louise Bogan ~
• From social intercourse are derived some of the highest enjoyments of life; where there is a free interchange of sentiments the mind acquires new ideas, and by frequent exercise of its powers, the understanding gains fresh vigor.
  ~ Joseph Addison ~
• Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.
  ~ Joseph Addison ~
• Even his griefs are a joy long after to one that remembers all that he wrought and endured.
  ~ Homer ~
• Each present joy or sorrow seems the chief.
  ~ William Shakespeare ~
• Cease, every joy, to glimmer on my mind, But leave---oh! leave the light of Hope behind.
  ~ Thomas Campbell ~
• Cease, every joy, to glimmer on my mind, But leave---oh leave the light of Hope behind.
  ~ Thomas Campbell ~
• Be very circumspect in the choice of thy company. In the society of thy equals thou shalt enjoy more pleasure; in the society of thy superiors thou shalt find more profit. To be the best of the company is the way to grow worse; the best means to grow better is to be the worst there.
  ~ Francis Quarles ~
• Be very circumspect in the choice of thy company. In the society of thine equals thou shalt enjoy more pleasure; in the society of thy superiors thou shalt find more profit. To be the best in the company is the way to grow worse.
  ~ Francis Quarles ~
• Be very circumspect in the choice of thy company. In the society of thine equals thou shalt enjoy more pleasure in the society of thy superiors thou shalt find more profit. To be the best in the company is the way to grow worse.
  ~ Francis Quarles ~
• As I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius which to Angels look like torment and insanity. I collected some of their Proverbs.
  ~ William Blake ~
• All animals except man know that the ultimate of life is to enjoy it.
  ~ Samuel Butler ~
• A cheerful look brings joy to the heart.
  ~ William Makepeace Thackeray ~
• Just give it a crack, enjoy life and what it has to offer because we're all running out of time.
  ~ Shane Smith ~
• Sometimes, you just have to relax and enjoy yourself.
  ~ Effi David ~
• I used to get nervous, you know if my parents would come watch. And then I would get nervous if my friends came and watched. Today it's not a problem anymore actually, because now I enjoy it. I see that they, you know, respect me immensely, and I try to put on a good show and show that I can still play very good tennis.
  ~ Roger Federer ~
• Music was my joy, my home, the one place I felt happy and secure.
  ~ Lawrence Welk ~
• I'm the only girl on The Food Network who grills - I have two bestselling grilling books. I try to really focus on what men and women can do outside together out on the grill. I think it's really fun to have men and women out there together, having fun, working and enjoying themselves.
  ~ Sandra Lee ~
• I've never chased fame. I came into this business to be a theatre actress. I was nine when I first appeared on stage. But I can't say I would turn my back on fortune. I'm someone who enjoys the benefits of money.
  ~ Joan Collins ~
• I think we recognize as Americans there are certain things that are just primary to the freedoms and liberties that we enjoy here and religious freedom is one of the most important things we as Americans cherish.
  ~ Ann Romney ~
• I don't particularly enjoy watching films in 3D because I think that a well-shot and well-projected film has a very three-dimensional quality to it, so I'm somewhat sceptical of the technology.
  ~ Christopher Nolan ~
• To be honest, I don't enjoy watching movies much when I'm working. They tend to fall apart on me a bit.
  ~ Christopher Nolan ~
• I felt Joyce was an influence on my fiction, but in a very general way, as a kind of inspiration and a model for the beauty of language.
  ~ Don Delillo ~
• African art is functional, it serves a purpose. It's not a dormant. It's not a means to collect the largest cheering section. It should be healing, a source a joy. Spreading positive vibrations.
  ~ Mos Def ~
• People who are always taking care of their health are like misers, who are hoarding a treasure which they have never spirit enough to enjoy.
  ~ Laurence Sterne ~
• People who overly take care of their health are like misers. They hoard up a treasure which they never enjoy.
  ~ Laurence Sterne ~
• So much of motion, is so much of life, and so much of joy, and to stand still, or get on but slowly, is death and the devil.
  ~ Laurence Sterne ~
• I envy people with dreams and passions, but I don't think that way. I still don't have a 'bliss' to follow. For people like me - I suspect that's most people - holding out for a 'dream' or a 'passion' is paralyzing. I just like having work I enjoy that feels meaningful. That's hard enough... but it's enough.
  ~ Jane Pauley ~
• Such discussions help us very little to enjoy what has been well done in art or poetry, to discriminate between what is more and what is less excellent in them, or to use words like beauty, excellence, art, poetry, with a more precise meaning than they would otherwise have.
  ~ Walter Pater ~
• Such discussions help us very little to enjoy what has been well done in art or poetry, to discriminate between what is more and what is less excellent in them, or to use words like beauty, excellence, art, poetry, with a more precise meaning than they would otherwise have.
  ~ Walter Pater ~
• Off with you! You're a happy fellow, for you'll give happiness and joy to many other people. There is nothing better or greater than that!
  ~ Ludwig Van Beethoven ~
• Music is my living. I enjoy selling my music.
  ~ James Taylor ~
• We never taste a perfect joy our happiest successes are mixed with sadness.
  ~ Pierre Corneille ~
• I was determined to share my positive approach and not let diabetes stand in the way of enjoying my life.
  ~ Paula Deen ~
• I have my new food line in the works - I think it's over 200 items. Hopefully I can make a difference it's delicious food that's just so easy. I think it'll help people enjoy their lives... it's good!
  ~ Paula Deen ~
• What I've enjoyed most, though, is meeting people who have a real interest in food and sharing ideas with them. Good food is a global thing and I find that there is always something new and amazing to learn - I love it!
  ~ Jamie Oliver ~
• I want Americans to enjoy food. I want them to celebrate food. I want them to, on occasions, to have big cakes and great things. And I want them to indulge.
  ~ Jamie Oliver ~
• What I've enjoyed most, though, is meeting people who have a real interest in food and sharing ideas with them. Good food is a global thing and I find that there is always something new and amazing to learn - I love it!
  ~ Jamie Oliver ~
• What I've enjoyed most, though, is meeting people who have a real interest in food and sharing ideas with them. Good food is a global thing and I find that there is always something new and amazing to learn - I love it!
  ~ Jamie Oliver ~
• I love food and feel that it is something that should be enjoyed. I eat whatever I want. I just don't overeat.
  ~ Tyra Banks ~
• Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment.
  ~ Irving Babbitt ~
• History, sociology, economics, psychology et al. confirmed Joyce's view of Everyman as victim.
  ~ Robert Anton Wilson ~
• Every animal has his or her story, his or her thoughts, daydreams, and interests. All feel joy and love, pain and fear, as we now know beyond any shadow of a doubt. All deserve that the human animal afford them the respect of being cared for with great consideration for those interests or left in peace.
  ~ Ingrid Newkirk ~
• Every animal has his or her story, his or her thoughts, daydreams, and interests. All feel joy and love, pain and fear, as we now know beyond any shadow of a doubt. All deserve that the human animal afford them the respect of being cared for with great consideration for those interests or left in peace.
  ~ Ingrid Newkirk ~
• Like many other touchstones of twenty-first-century pop culture, 'The Sopranos' was hatched in the late Nineties, predicting a future that never arrived. It was designed for a decade that would be just like the Nineties, except more so, in an America that enjoyed seeing itself as smarter and braver and freer than ever before.
  ~ Rob Sheffield ~
• I enjoy every minute, because there are going to be a lot of moments in your future that you're going to wish you held onto longer.
  ~ Joe Nichols ~
• Everything that's cool that happens, I look at my wife and I say, 'We need to enjoy this moment right here! This is really special!'
  ~ Joe Nichols ~
• The biggest lesson from Africa was that life's joys come mostly from relationships and friendships, not from material things. I saw time and again how much fun Africans had with their families and friends and on the sports fields they laughed all the time.
  ~ Andrew Shue ~
• I still love following and thinking about politics. I enjoy recommending important journalism I read or see from other sources.
  ~ Dan Rather ~
• Death is an endless night so awful to contemplate that it can make us love life and value it with such passion that it may be the ultimate cause of all joy and all art.
  ~ Paul Theroux ~
• I'm completely in love with the world but also terrified of it. It creates some overwhelming feelings. Wanting to battle out that joy and fear is part of my music.
  ~ Florence Welch ~
• Money is not the motivating force. It's nice to have money, but I don't live high. What I enjoy is running the business.
  ~ Rupert Murdoch ~
• Imagination, the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature, should be limited. In order to enjoy life, we should not enjoy it too much.
  ~ Vladimir Nabokov ~
• The trouble with many men is that they have got just enough religion to make them miserable. If there is not joy in religion, you have got a leak in your religion.
  ~ Billy Sunday ~
• In spite of reports about playing with various teams, I'm enjoying retirement with my family and have no plans to play football.
  ~ Brett Favre ~
• Believe me, I understand the need for easy and speedy. After a 12-hour day of shooting 'Chopped,' say, I'm talking stir-fry, spaghetti, heck, peanut-butter sandwiches. But that's not about the joy of food. That's survival.
  ~ Ted Allen ~
• You know the great irony is that people think you have to have money to enjoy fine food, which is a shame.
  ~ Ted Allen ~
• I think all those people I did stories about measured their own success by the joy their work was giving them.
  ~ Charles Kuralt ~
• Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.
  ~ Johnny Carson ~
• Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.
  ~ Johnny Carson ~