Quotes About Joy And Friendship

#1. The point of life isn't to avoid pain. The point of life is to be alive! To feel things. That means the good and the bad. There'll be pain. But also joy, and friendship and love. And it's worth it, believe me.

John J. Stephens

#2. The test of friendship is its fidelity when every charm of fortune and environment has been spent away, and the bare, undraped character alone remains; if love still holds steadfast, and the joy of companionship survives in such an hour, the fellowship becomes a beautiful prophecy of immortality.

Hamilton Wright Mabie

#3. Friends are like the stars that glow in the sky ... you don't always see them, but you know they're always there overhead, and even when it's cloudy, snowy or stormy, even when the power goes out and you're trapped in darkness, they'll always find a way to shine through to you.

Rebecca McNutt

#4. There is no God, but there is certainly a quality I call godliness. It comprises compassion, love, friendship, joy, creativity. It brings you new songs, it brings you new dances. It brings you the truth, and the immersion of you into the truth.

Rajneesh

#5. I can tell you, dearest friend, that if it became known how much friendship, love and a world of human and spiritual references I have smuggled into these three movements, the adherents of programme music - should there be any left - would go mad with joy.

Alban Berg

#6. I have known the joy and pain of friendship. I have served and been served. I have made some good enemies for which I am not a bit sorry. I have loved unselfishly, and I have fondled hatred with the red-hot tongs of Hell. That's living.

Zora Neale Hurston

#7. People will not remember what you did for living,
they will remember how you touched them with kindness and loving.

Debasish Mridha

#8. Virtue is attended by more peace of mind than vice, and meets with a more favourable reception from the world. I am sensible, that, according to the past experience of mankind, friendship is the chief joy of human life and moderation the only source of tranquillity and happiness.

David Hume

#9. Friendship improves happiness, abates misery by doubling our joy and dividing our grief.

John

#10. Consistently practice love and everything that falls under the category of love: gratitude, laughter, friendship, joy, forgiveness, acceptance, peace, and trust.

Renee Marino

#11. I tend to make my joy a private experience and hoard all the fruit for myself, forgetting that the tree doesn't eat its own fruit but presents it to others.

Hayley DiMarco

#12. I took my friend's hand as she helped me up. With our hands still linked and our flower crowns tangled in our hair, we danced, laughing with joy, through the rain and towards the school, the lightning showing us our path with its powerful light.

Erica Sehyun Song

#13. A new person is to me a great event, and hinders me from sleep. I have often had fine fancies about persons which have given me delicious hours; but the joy ends in the day; it yields no fruit.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#14. I thought I knew everything about friendship and family: the happiness, simplicity and joy within them. But there is another side of devotion, a side which Samira understands.

Michael Robotham

#15. What joy to fully know and feel the bond of true friendship.

Jaye L. Knight

#16. Friendship redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half.

Francis Bacon

#17. Around, around, Companions all, take your ground, And name the bell with joy profound! CONCORDIA is the word we've found Most meet to express the harmonious sound, That calls to those in friendship bound.

Friedrich Schiller

#18. If I knew a miser, who gave up every kind of comfortable living, all the pleasure of doing good to others, all the esteem of his fellow-citizens, and the joys of benevolent friendship, for the sake of accumulating wealth. Poor man, said I, you pay too much for your whistle.

Benjamin Franklin

#19. It is a joy to share good advice. It takes a grateful ear to listen wisely. It's always up for us to take the right action and fulfilling path that can truly serve for what is the best.

Angelica Hopes

#20. To be truthful i am not entirely sure what people mean when they talk of happiness. There are moments of joy and laughter, the comfort of friendship, but enduring happiness? If it exists i have not found it

David Gemmell

#21. We are an arrogant species, full of terrible potential, but we also have a great capacity for love, friendship, generosity, kindness, faith, hope, and joy.

Dean Koontz

#22. It is so good to have friends who understand how there is a time for crying and a time for laughing, and that sometimes the two are very close together.

Lois Lowry

#23. Love Christ and put nothing before His Love. He is joy, He is life, He is light. Christ is Everything. He is the ultimate desire, He is everything. Everything beautiful is in Christ.

Elder Porphyrios

#24. The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not 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

#25. Maybe friendship was not as big a deal as I'd thought and I actually had lots of friends.

Karen Joy Fowler

#26. The only lifestyle I'm promoting is the lifestyle of love and friendship. The lifestyle of music, and joy, and fashion. So whoever wants to come and get part of that lifestyle, we accept anybody.

Adam Lambert

#27. You will find joy, frustration and sorrow in your quest. Never forget that friendship and loyalty are more precious than riches ... Happiness can be brief, but it knows no time in the land of dreams.

Brian Jacques

#28. Friendship multiplies joy and divides sorrow.

Nicky Gumbel

#29. When you feel someone else's pain and joy as powerfully as if it were your own, then you know you really loved them.

Ann Brashares

#30. He has joy in our friendship and in our partnering together in the work of the kingdom with Him.

Mike Bickle

#31. A friend drops their plans when you're in trouble, shares joy in your accomplishments, feels sad when you're in pain. A friend encourages your dreams and offers advice
but when you don't follow it, they still respect and love you.

Doris Wild Helmering

#32. The fruits of charity are joy, peace, and mercy; charity demands beneficence and fraternal correction; it 2540 is benevolence; it fosters reciprocity and remains disinterested and generous; it is friendship and communion:

The Catholic Church

#33. Food = joy ... guilt ... anger ... pain ... nurturing ... friendship ... hatred ... the way you look and feel ... Food = everything you can imagine.

Susan Powter

#34. Friendship doubles your joys, and divides your sorrows.

Euripides

#35. Not only does love bring joy and happiness, it also means very different things to people.

Auliq Ice

#36. She wasn't just a faithful friend, she was the closest thing to heaven I allowed myself to know. Through her I received joy in my heart and began to love others.

Jennifer Skiff

#37. This was no friendship, to forsake your friend, To promise your support and at the end Abandon him-this was sheer treachery. Friend follows friend to hell and blasphemy- When sorrow comes one's true friends are found; In times of joy ten thousand gather round.

Farid Al-Din Attar

#38. Love is helping people toward the greatest beauty, the highest value, the deepest satisfaction, the most lasting joy, the biggest reward, the most wonderful friendship, and the most overwhelming worship - love is helping people toward God.

John Piper

#39. Marriage provides the solace of worked-on friendship and the joy of being known profoundly.

Imogen Stubbs

#40. Friendship, love, health, energy, enthusiasm, and joy are the things that make life worth living and exploring.

Denise Austin

#41. Every loving word and action create a far reaching ripple effect - like the waves of the ocean.

Swami Dhyan Giten

#42. For without words, in friendship, all thoughts, all desires, all expectations are born and shared, with joy that is unclaimed.

Kahlil Gibran

#43. To communicate is our chief business; society and friendship our chief delights; and reading, not to acquire knowledge, not to earn a living, but to extend our intercourse beyond our own time and province.

Virginia Woolf

#44. No medicine is more valuable, none more efficacious, none better suited to the cure of all our temporal ills than a friend to whom we may turn for consolation in time of trouble, and with whom we may share our happiness in time of joy.

Aelred Of Rievaulx

#45. It doesn't matter how many friends I have because my best friend is God. And, he is a Super Friend. People come and people go, but God's love for you will remain the same. Embrace it, Cherish it, and Spread it everywhere you go. Let your light shine brightly for all the world to see.

Amaka Imani Nkosazana

#46. Be grateful when you have friends who care for you, it's a blessing to see nice happy people around us.

Auliq Ice

#47. A bolt of warmth, fierce with joy and pride and gratitude, flashed through me like sudden lightning. I don't care about whose DNA has recombined with whose. When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching - they are your family. And they were my heroes.

Jim Butcher

#48. Do not be ashamed of your past. Learn from those experiences and move forward in your life. Teach others of the possibilities of change & living victoriously. You are a survivor.

Amaka Imani Nkosazana

#49. Dear young people, Jesus wants to be your friend, and wants you to spread the joy of this friendship everywhere.

Pope Francis

#50. Tiny Giggles
Silly giggles of laughter
I store upon a shelf
I give some to other
I save some for myself
I am rich beyond all measure
Though not with worldly wealth
I store up these treasures
For my heart and soulful health.

Muse

#51. No, the true face is wretchedly simple and empty. The absolute joy in life, in friendship, in love, is learning about a person, deciphering them, taking each and every mask off to find a new one, waiting to be explored and understood.

Tarun Shanker