Quotes on Joy

I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain top, but like child stringing beads in kindergarten, - happy, absorbed and quietly putting one bead on after another.

There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.

Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it.

They who shall enter into [the] joy [of the Lord] shall know what is going on outside in the outer darkness. . .The saints'. . . knowledge, which shall be great, shall keep them acquainted. . .with the eternal sufferings of the lost.

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

Words can wound or heal. The purpose of speech must always be to create joy in the listener.

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.

The more reverence we have for the Word of God, the more joy we shall find in it.

Joy is the serious business of heaven. Our merriment must be between people who take each other seriously.

How can you go out on a limb if you do not know your own tree? No art ever came out of not risking your neck. And risk--experiment--is a considerable part of the joy of doing.

A good teacher does not get lost in the details, but points to what is essential so that the child or student can find meaning and joy in life.

Men, to exist, to become complete and mature, need to feel the joy of fatherhood. When a man does not have this desire, something is missing in this man, it is like an incomplete life: a life that stops half way. The grace of fatherhood; of giving life to others, of pastoral paternity, of spiritual paternity is a gift from God.

All societies are evil, sorrowful, inequitable; and so they will always be. So if you really want to help this world, what you will have to teach is how to live in it. And that no one can do who has not himself learned how to live in it in the joyful sorrow and sorrowful joy of the knowledge of life as it is.

What lasts in the reader's mind is not the phrase but the effect the phrase created: laughter, tears, pain, joy. If the phrase is not affecting the reader, what's it doing there? Make it do its job or cut it without mercy or remorse.

God wants you to find your way back to Him, and the Savior is the way. God wants you to learn of His Son, Jesus Christ, and experience the profound peace and joy that come from following the path of divine discipleship.

The more you join with people in their joys and their sorrows, the more nearer and dearer they come to be to you.

Those who do not know the torment of the unknown cannot have the joy of discovery.

Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.

Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.