Joy Quotes

Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.

Those we most love cause us not only great joy but also great pain. LOVE is stronger than fear, life stronger than death, hope stronger than despair. We have to trust that the risk of loving is always worth taking.

May your heart always be joyful. May your song always be sung.

For one wild, glad moment we snapped the chain that binds us to earth, and joining hands with the winds we felt ourselves divine.

It is only after the deepest darkness that the greatest light can come; it is only after extreme grief that the greatest joy can come.

We all experience pain when we suffer loss and joy when we achieve what we seek.

Passion is a feeling that tells you: this is the right thing to do. Nothing can stand in my way. It doesn’t matter what anyone else says. This feeling is so good that it cannot be ignored. I’m going to follow my bliss and act upon this glorious sensation of joy.

Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though ’twere his own.

Comedy is a high form of art becaus it brings us more joy than anything else.

I am still learning – how to take joy in all the people I am, how to use all my selves in the service of what I believe, how to accept when I fail and rejoice when I succeed.