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Joy Quotes


"Don't take life seriously, because seriousness kills creativity and joy."


"Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy."


"The only joy I had was writing what was. That book was. It no longer amuses me to be all the things I was when I wrote that. But it is my story as I was then."


"Find your own joy within and then greater joy will be added to you."


"We exist just to feel the joy of life."


"To be sad is to lack a reflection of heaven's order."


"Well, but you two are dancing around in your iridescent little downpour, whooping and stomping as sane people ought to do when they encounter a thing so miraculous as water."


"You can't afford to leave your happiness to others. Create what you wish to experience."


"I pictured a girl who made every moment, everything she touched, and everyone around her feel lighter and sweeter."


"Do whatever makes your spirit glow out loud."


"Be happy for no reason, like a child. If you are happy for a reason, you're in trouble, because that reason can be taken from you."


"Let the giggles fill your mouth because nothing tastes as sweet as laughter."


"The subsistence mentality of a person is a prison in which his personal joy is detained. If you want to live in joy, you don't live for yourself alone. Live for others too!"


"One of the highlights of the first Good Omens tour was Neil and I walking through New York singing Shoehorn with Teeth. Well, we'd had a good breakfast. And you don't get mugged, either."


"The best bubbly I ever tasted was laughter."


"To laugh continually is to never laugh at all. For it takes the periodic sound of sorrow from which to distinguish the sound of joy."


"Birds that cannot fly high into the sky rejoice exceedingly and sing sweet melodies when they get to the top of the tallest tree on the highest mountain!"


"Beauty may catch the eye, but a jolly laugh will lasso the heart."
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