Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kris Carr

What if your purpose is to take impeccable care of yourself so that you have the energy and joy to serve others?

Sandy Wilson

For some reason, I just loved it. There was a sense of optimism and joy in the 1920s.

John Whittier

For somehow, not only at Christmas, but all the long year through, The joy that you give to others is the joy that comes back to you.

Ivan Turgenev

Oh, gentle feelings, soft sounds, the goodness and the gradual stilling of a soul that has been moved; the melting happiness of the first tender, touching joys of love- where are you?

Isak Dinesen

It is not the visions but the activity which makes you happy, and the joy and glory of the flier is the flight itself.

Irvin Kershner

Nobody can be happy. You could have moments of happiness, moments of joy. But life is very difficult. Unless you're a total idiot. Then you can be happy.

Gloria Vanderbilt

To be pregnant has been for me each time the supreme joy ... I was doing the greatest thing in the world without having to do anything -- all I had to do was be.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

What is all this juice and all this joy?

Guillaume Apollinaire

I sing the joy of wandering and the pleasure of the wanderer's death

Guillermo del Toro

I love the creation of these things—I love the sculpting, I love the coloring. Half the joy is fabricating the world, the creatures.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Don't overlook life's small joys while searching for the big ones.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

May your life be crowded with unexpected joys.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

Our cares are all To-day, our joys are all To-day; And in one little word, our life, what is it but--To-day?

Marilyn Monroe

Don't let your fear of failing triumph over the joy of participating.

Mary MacLane

Genius, apart from natural sensitiveness, is prone equally to unreasoning joy and to bitterest morbidness.

Marvin J. Ashton

Pleasure usually takes the form of me and now; joy is us and always.

Neal A. Maxwell

The cavity which suffering carves into our souls will one day also be the receptacle of joy.

Oprah Winfrey

The commonality in the human experience is the same. We have the same sorrows, and the same triumphs. Joy is joy is joy.

Oprah Winfrey

I know for sure that's what we're here to do: Keep the joy thing going for all seasons.

Oliver Goldsmith

Alas! the joys that fortune brings Are trifling, and decay, And those who prize the trifling things, More trifling still than they.

Kevin Mitnick

I saw myself as an electronic joy rider.

Mark Twain

On with the dance, let the joy be unconfined.

Mark Twain

Let your joy be unconfined!

George Herbert

To weepe for joy is a kinde of Manna.

Jim Dale

The joy about the recording is that you are your own boss. You don't have a director telling you how to do it.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Joy is something entirely different from pleasure.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

It is only when the mind is free from the old that it meets everything anew, and in that there is joy.

Jessamyn West

The source of one's joy is also often the source of one's sorrow.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

We do not want joy and anger to neutralize each other and produce a surly contentment; we want a fiercer delight and a fiercer discontent. We have to feel the universe at once as an ogre's castle, to be stormed, and yet as our own cottage, to which we can return to at evening.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Surprise is the secret of joy.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

We actually love ourselves more than we love joy.

Mike Brown

Finding out that something you have just discovered is considered all but impossible is one of the joys of science.

Neil Armstrong

Pilots take no special joy in walking. Pilots like flying.