So Much Joy Quotes

#1. If you can go through life being brave enough to run toward the things you deserve, and the people and the things that you love, then you will be rewarded with so much love and so much joy in return.

Elle Botz

#2. I always had an inferiority complex, like I wasn't good enough. I was shy. But dancing gave me so much joy, and I was good at it. I felt like a whole person because I could dance.

Patricia McBride

#3. I have found so much joy and so much pride in contributing and being a team member, and then stepping back and watching someone else get the applause. That has been really satisfying in a way that I wouldn't have probably imagined.

Sara Bareilles

#4. Don't let the darkness of your past block the light of joy in your present. What happened is done. Stop giving time to things that no longer exist when there is so much joy to be found in the here and now.

Karen Salmansohn

#5. I play a lot of games on my iPhone. There is a game called Rat on a Scooter that I will promote as much as possible because it has brought me so much joy.

Jonah Hill

#6. I wonder if she means Graham. His locker is near mine, so I get to see him pull Emma into a groping session every morning.
It always fills me with so much joy.

Jay Asher

#7. It's a beautiful thing to be that committed to something that you get so much joy from, but it is like a sick addiction, because sometimes it's incredibly volatile, incredibly painful, and very frustrating. A man shouldn't be defined by his work, but I am.

Scott Weiland

#8. I loved movies, growing up. They brought me so much joy.

Elden Henson

#9. There is so much joy in native culture but so much poverty. It's very disturbing.

Buffy Sainte-Marie

#10. First and foremost comes my family and my life with Brad. We have so much joy in raising our children and teaching them about the world that nothing really compares to that.

Angelina Jolie

#11. I can't begin to describe how you've touched my heart. You've brought so much joy and happiness to my life. I never thought I would ever be able to love anyone as much as I do you. You've consumed my very being, completing my soul.

Trin Denise

#12. There was so much feeling in the world. So much sadness. So much longing. So much joy. Everything had a soul. The petals of flowers. The mice of the field. The clouds and rain and the bare limbs of trees. All

Justin Cronin

#13. When love brings so much joy, why must it bring so much pain?

Lou Rawls

#14. Each child brings so much joy and hope into the world, and that is reason enough for being here. As you grow older, you will contribute something else to this world, and only you can discover what that is.

Sharon Creech

#15. This so much joy! This so much joy! If I should fail, what poverty! And yet, as poor as I Have ventured all upon a throw; Have gained! Yes! Hesitated so this side the victory!

Emily Dickinson

#16. When we adopt a dog or any pet, we know it is going to end with us having to say goodbye, but we still do it. And we do it for a very good reason: They bring so much joy and optimism and happiness. They attack every moment of every day with that attitude.

Bruce Cameron

#17. We live in a society of {more, faster, and extra.} So we feel the need to respond {more, faster, and extra.} Such a useless exercise. So much joy can be found in slowing down.

Emily Ley

#18. What I do is really helping people in maximizing their income and to live the lives they want to live. I effect they're families, I effect their beliefs about themselves and it gives me so much joy

John Assaraf

#19. In my life I see no difference between making pots, cooking and growing vegetables. They are all so related. However, there is a need for me to work in clay. It is so gratifying and I get so much joy from it, and it gives me many answers in my life.

Toshiko Takaezu

#20. He used to wonder how such a frail little body could house so much joy, so much goodness. It couldn't. It spilled out of her, came pouring out her eyes.

Khaled Hosseini

#21. I observe, I write, I try not to remember the life that I didn't want to loose but lost and have to remember, being here fills my heart with so much joy, even if the joy isn't mine, and at the end of the day I fill the suitcase with old news.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#22. I am an optimist. I think, as bad as life sometimes gets, there is so much joy and so much good stuff, that there is a balance.

Amanda Holden

#23. I want to thank all the women who have worn my clothes, the famous and the unknown, who have been so faithful to me and given me so much joy.

Yves Saint-Laurent

#24. I am grateful for all the goodness in my life. I think life for bringing me so much joy.

Amy Leigh Mercree

#25. Today would be perfect in every way. The Facebook photos wouldn't lie. So much joy. Her life had so much so joy. That was an actual verifiable fact.

Liane Moriarty

#26. One of the reasons I get so much joy out of my own children's childhoods is that I'm having my first childhood myself.

Al Sharpton

#27. I have so much joy in my life. I love my husband and kids so much. So much love. I'm also more focused now on spending more time at home and in town instead of going on tour. Because of that nesting, I find that I'm even more into writing and creating.

Lisa Loeb

#28. It doesn't escape me for one moment that so much joy in my life is thanks to so much pain in someone else's.

Lupita Nyong'o

#29. I have a theory about pink pastry boxes. So much joy comes from those boxes. When someone walks into a room with a pink pastry box, joy immediately fills the room. World peace? Three words. Pink pastry box. I get a big cup of coffee and finalize my plans for world domination.

Liza Palmer

#30. I believe education in music, theater, dance, and the visual arts ... is part of a well-rounded education and can provide so much joy, now and in the future.

Rudy Giuliani

#31. So many memories, so much joy and sadness.

Marie Lu

#32. She lies with me, and I am home. I am filled with so much joy I could fly right up there above the beach, the sea, our world, with her. I can't bear it, it is so beautiful.
It all falls away.
I loved, I am love, I am free.

Kate Lord Brown

#33. We try to connect with the audience as much as we can. We feel the energy from the audience, and it gives us so much joy and inspiration.

Stjepan Hauser

#34. I love to do movies. That's something that I find so much joy in, in being able to travel around and play new characters.

Hayden Panettiere

#35. During periods of relaxation after concentrated intellectual activity, the intuitive mind seems to take over and can produce the sudden clarifying insights which give so much joy and delight.

Fritjof Capra

#36. There's so much joy in doing comedy work, and that's one of the reasons I like to do it - because it's just a hilarious day at work.

John C. Reilly

#37. It is because I had so much joy that I came to have so much hate.

Amy Tan

#38. Ordering pizza and jamming out with the contestants in our hotels and traveling the country together brought me so much joy.

Rayvon Owen

#39. I never knew so much joy could also hurt so badly. How does one heart have room for both? Unsure

R.E. Vance

#40. Nothing gives me quite so much joy as when people tell me they've had their pets spayed or neutered.

Bob Barker

#41. If there is so much blessing and joy even in a single encounter of brother with brother, how inexhaustible are the riches that open up for those who by God's will are privileged to live in the daily fellowship of life with other Christians!

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#42. Being content isn't good enough. You deserve so much more - passion, joy, and excitement...

Nancee Cain

#43. I do wonder why people hate their grey hair so much! I think grey hair is a gift from the moon! When the moon laughs, her eyes produce tears of joy that fall to the earth and onto the tops of people's heads!

C. JoyBell C.

#44. A good Soul hath neither too great joy, nor too great sorrow: for it rejoiceth in goodness; and it sorroweth in wickedness. By the means whereof, when it beholdeth all things, and seeth the good and bad so mingled together, it can neither rejoice greatly; nor be grieved with over much sorrow.

Pythagoras

#45. To work for the sheer joy of it, to wake up and be really excited on a Monday, to love what you do so much that the idea of a long vacation looks boring - that's living.

Manoj Arora

#46. My girls and I regularly go through their rooms to find clothes and toys to donate to charities. I firmly believe that children who have been given so much need to experience the joy that comes from giving.

Kimora Lee Simmons

#47. The reason there is so much misery in marriage is not that husbands and wives seek their own pleasure, but that they do not seek it in the pleasure of their spouses. The biblical mandate to husbands and wives is to seek your own joy in the joy of your spouse.

John Piper

#48. She'd poured so much of herself into keeping it buried, sometimes it felt like any energy she might have had for joy or love or light went there instead. You only had so much to give.

Laini Taylor

#49. As so much music is listened to via MP3 download, many will never experience the joy of analog playback, and for them, I feel sorry. They are missing out.

Henry Rollins

#50. Sincerity like this staggers me; I've seen too little and too much of it one way and another; I've valued it so highly that when someone hands it to me as directly as you have, I'm not sure whether I should jump for joy or burst into tears. - Gwendolyn MacEwen to Milton Acorn, 1960 (age 19)

David Eso

#51. There are so little outtakes from the Joy Division era. We didn't have much money. You couldn't be very generous in recording, so we were very thrifty in how we recorded. Everything was very, very well looked after financially because we just couldn't afford it.

Peter Hook

#52. Northern Sweden holds a special kind of magic. It's cold, lonely, and the people are tough and silent, or so the stereotype says. This is Asa Larsson's home turf and I find as much joy in reading her closely observed descriptions of the environment, as in following her intriguing plots.

Camilla Lackberg

#53. I'm not weeping for what I've lost ... I'm just grateful to the Lord, grateful that he gave me so much ... Praise the Almighty God for what he gave me, for such love and such joy.

Rosslyn Elliott

#54. Entrepreneurial business favours the open mind. It favours people whose optimism drives them to prepare for many possible futures, pretty much purely for the joy of doing so.

Richard Branson

#55. School used to be an escape. Now it's just another place with too much pressure, too much confrontation, & so not enough joy.

Ellen Hopkins

#56. So keep fighting for freedom and justice, beloveds,
but don't forget to have fun doin' it. Be outrageous ... rejoice in all the oddities that freedom can produce. And when you get through celebrating the sheer joy of a good fight, be sure to tell those who come after how much fun it was!

Molly Ivins

#57. You can't know, sweetie, because you've never had a baby become a brilliant young reader with a side interest in horrible television shows, but the joy you bring us is so much greater than the sadness we feel about your illness.

John Green

#58. Sometimes when you take chances you lose chances. And sometimes when you lose chances, you gain something else. Don't live for chances. Sometimes it's better to lose chance and gain purpose. Live for today. You'll find so much more joy.

Marilyn Grey

#59. Discontents are sometimes the better part of our life. I know not well which is the most useful; joy I may choose for pleasure, but adversities are the best for profit; and sometimes those do so far help me, as I should, without them, want much of the joy I have.

Owen Feltham

#60. You are the greatest wife of all times and I love you so much more' said my husband, Jeremiah Nii Mama Akita

Lailah Gifty Akita

#61. I love that song 'I Could Have Danced All Night' from 'My Fair Lady' so much. I love that song because watching it as a kid, it was such an unbridled expression of joy.

Elizabeth Meriwether

#62. It brought his heart joy to be able to do so much for her and he welcomed the opportunity to be able to show her this side of him as a provider and life mate.

Olivia Gaines

#63. Christians don't face adversity by stoically decreasing our love for the people and things of this world so much as by increasing our love and joy in God.

Timothy J. Keller

#64. The joy I get from winning a major championship doesn't even compare to the feeling I get when a kid writes a letter saying: 'Thank you so much. You have changed my life.'

Tiger Woods

#65. Whether it is suffering or joy, going through experiences in life is not so much of a karma. Depriving yourself of any experience is the big karma.

Jaggi Vasudev

#66. You are quite, quite wrong if you think that ... I find your happiness painful. What matters is that happiness - the golden day - should exist in the world, not much to whom it comes. For all of us it is so transitory a thing, how could one not draw joy from its arrival?

Winifred Holtby

#67. 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

#68. Choose joy! Joy is a choice. Joy is a witness. Joy is a therapy. Joy is a habit. If Jesus, who drank so deeply of the world's sorrow, could be filled with so much fun and laughter, then so can I.

George Foster

#69. [T]he joy of travel is not nearly so much in getting where one wants to go as in the unsought surprises which occur on the journey.

Alan W. Watts

#70. Well, I knew that goat would be a little gold mine," I say.
Yes, of course I was referring to that, not the lasting joy you gave your sister you love so much you took her place in the reaping," says Peeta drily.

Suzanne Collins

#71. Since religion was so much a part of my life as a child, and since my childhood was so happy and so full of laughter and joy, I associate the two. Even my concept of Jesus goes along with this association of happiness and religion.

Minnie Pearl

#72. Some suffer much from poverty and sickness, but are not humbled, and so they suffer without profit. But one who is humbled will be happy in all circumstances, because the Lord is his riches and joy, and all people will wonder at the beauty of his soul.

Silouan The Athonite

#73. I think we have a creative impulse where suffering can magnify our work, but so can joy. You can be in love and write the greatest love song ever. Sometimes I think too much suffering makes it difficult to do one's work.

Patti Smith

#74. There is so much wonder and joy in science, about understanding how the world works and why the world is the way it is. It's not just for academics. It is a thing that's available to everyone.

Dallas Campbell

#75. We spend so much of our lives waiting to be ambushed by heartbreak. Why couldn't we be ambushed by joy?

Cinda Williams Chima

#76. HAD I NOT SPENT SO MUCH TIME DOING SOMETHING THAT MADE ME SO MISERABLE, I WOULD HAVE NEVER LEARNED HOW TO APPRECIATE DOING WHAT BRINGS ME JOY.

Iyanla Vanzant

#77. I used to love watching him as a player, so it is a joy to play alongside him. I might take the mickey out of him, but deep down I have so much admiration for him.

Robbie Keane

#78. It never dawned on us that life is unpredictable, that one day, one of us could suddenly cease to exist and what then? What would be the joy in having left so much unsaid? With what memories would we fill the empty silence?

Isabel Lopez

#79. Joy, I realized, isn't so much a circumstance you find yourself in but a choice you make.

Lisa Wingate

#80. She'd lived through something the rest of them could never imagine. So much torture and horror that she didn't need to tell people about it. She'd never need drama or joy or pain ever again.

Chuck Palahniuk

#81. When I die, I shall then have my greatest grief and my greatest joy; my greatest grief, that I have done so little for Jesus, and my greatest joy, that Jesus has done so much for me.

William Grimshaw

#82. Women are told for so long that our feelings - our internal sensations of pain, pleasure, joy, sadness, or anger - are too much, or wrong, or bad. So eventually we can't stop thinking and thinking about these problems, trying to think them out, but we stop feeling our feelings about them.

Naomi Wolf

#83. I love performing so much! The joy is to have the opportunity to be able to perform all around the world.

Hiromi

#84. And?" he murmurs.

"And . . . sapphire." My voice fades into a whisper.

"For the angel of Joy."

"Joy?" Magiano smiles, gently this time.

"Yes." I look down, overwhelmed by sudden sadness.
"Because I can see so much of it in you.

Marie Lu

#85. It was a bubble of pure joy.
There were no cameras around to capture it, no reporters to tell the world about it. And for some
reason, that made it so much better.

Kiera Cass

#86. I think everyone's pretty much the same underneath. The collective unconscious is a real thing. There's only a few emotions, and we all have them. There's, like, seven emotions. So personal is universal. Everyone experiences confusion, joy and pain, just in different forms.

Juliana Hatfield

#87. I looked into his eyes, and I saw so much more than just him. I saw the pain, the triumphs, the love, the horror, the sorrow, the joy, but most of all, the person I was in love with. There was so much more than just him in the depths of his eyes.

Me

#88. When I go to Africa and spend more time there with people who are the least of the least, those in desperate situations, I am broken by it. But I also find people with so much more joy and freedom living with nothing than I see walking down the streets of my own community here in Tennessee.

Steven Curtis Chapman

#89. My own life was filled with so much love and joy that when depression struck, it was like a prison door slamming shut and I was being placed in an isolation cell. No one else could possibly be feeling what I was. I hated my depression and all of its symptoms.

Susan Polis Schutz

#90. I had learned a little about writing from Soldier's Pay - how to approach language, words: not with seriousness so much as an essayist does, but with a kind of alert respect, as you approach dynamite; even with joy, as you approach women: perhaps with the same secretly unscrupulous intentions.

William Faulkner

#91. You're drinking in the joy of life,' Bear told her when she tried to explain why she was laughing. 'There's so much opportunity for drinking deeply of it, and we very rarely do it. When you do, it makes you feel alive all over.

Regina Doman

#92. I'm real excited. I'm so blessed to have so much peace and joy inside. I just can't keep quiet about it.

Brian Welch

#93. You ask why I smile, Goodman Mennis? Well, the Lord Ruler thinks he has claimed laughter and joy for himself. I'm disinclined to let him do so. This is one battle that doesn't take very much effort to fight.

Brandon Sanderson

#94. So beautiful but so bountiful.
So delicate but so fresh.
So magical but so simple.
So much to say but yet so silent.
So loving and so pleasant.
Oh, flowers of charming love,
You are life's joy and present.

Debasish Mridha

#95. So much in life seems inflexible and unchangeable, and part of the joy of running and especially racing is the realization that improvement and progress can be achieved.

Nancy Anderson

#96. Western civilization places so much emphasis on the idea of hope that we sacrifice the present moment. Hope is for the future. It cannot help us discover joy, peace, or enlightenment in the present moment.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#97. I don't really have a career plan. There's no joy for me to just be a personality in my work, and I feel that that's so much of what's out there.

Tammy Blanchard

#98. I always was one who didn't take things for granted. But I think I do appreciate things more now. The small moments of joy that we find each day are so much more precious now than when I looked at them before.

Chris LeDoux

#99. I've spent more time than many will believe [making microscopic observations], but I've done them with joy, and I've taken no notice those who have said why take so much trouble and what good is it?

Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek

#100. You live your life day by day and find ways to get through it. You grow up through things that are challenging and you find the joy. You realize there are so many people that have it much worse and remind yourself. I have been very blessed.

Kelly Rutherford