Quotes about Joy

An hour of pain is as long as a day of pleasure.

Prayer should be the means by which I, at all times, receive all that I need, and, for this reason, be my daily refuge, my daily consolation, my daily joy, my source of rich and inexhaustible joy in life.

To overcome difficulties is to experience the full delight of existence.

Angels fly because they take themselves lightly.

Nature, like man, sometimes weeps for gladness.

'Tis a gift to be simple, 'tis a gift to be free. 'Tis a gift to come round to where we ought to be. And when we find a place that feels just right, We will be in the valley of love and delight.

One filled with joy preaches without preaching.

Happiness belongs to those who are sufficient unto themselves. For all external sources of happiness and pleasure are, by their very nature, highly uncertain, precarious, ephemeral, and subject to chance.

Love, and do what you like.

Be of good cheer. Do not think of today's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourselves a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere; and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles. Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost.

The worst sin-perhaps the only sin- passion can commit is to be joyless.

To be full of being is to live as a body-soul. One name for the experience of full being is joy.