Famous Quotes & Sayings

Now I feel the joy of winning again.

Now my joys are few, and my pains are many. In utter agony, I pass my life.

Robert Burton

All my joys to this are folly, / Naught so sweet as melancholy.

Always, in every prayer of mine for you, all making request with joy. (Philippians 1:4)

This convoy is the size of our joy.

Rachel Platten

There's a joy I think people feel from... my performance.

Russell M. Nelson

You can experience true delight on the Sabbath from family history work...Finding family members...can bring immense joy.

Saadi

Joy and sorrow, beauty and deformity, equally pass away.

Saadi

That sorrow which is the harbinger of joy is preferable to the joy which is followed by sorrow.

Rumi

Keep on knocking 'til the joy inside opens a window look to see who's there

Rumi

Make peace with the universe. Take joy in it.

Sufjan Stevens

Life is all about toiling and labor. But obviously I get great joy in confronting challenge and taking risk.

Mother Teresa

Never let anything so fill you with sorrow as to make you forget the joy of Christ risen.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

If you do anything well, it becomes enjoyable. To keep enjoying something, you need to increase its complexity.

Pearl S. Buck

We learn as much from sorrow as from joy, as much from illness as from health, from handicap as from advantage and indeed perhaps more.

Peace Pilgrim

Just after I dedicated my life to service, I felt that I could no longer accept more than I need while others in the world have less than they need. This moved me to bring my life down to need level. I thought it would be difficult. I thought it would entail a great many hardships, but I was quite wrong. Instead of hardships, I found a wonderful sense of peace and joy, and a conviction that unnecessary possessions are only unnecessary burdens.

Peter Kreeft

Joy is not a feeling in us. Joy does not enter into us. We enter into joy: "Enter into the joy of your Lord" (Mt 25:21).

Pema Chodron

The greatest obstacle to connecting with our joy is resentment.

Pema Chodron

How do we cultivate the conditions for joy to expand? We train in staying present.

Phil Gramm

Half the world does not know the joy of wearing cotton underwear.

Peter S. Beagle

Wisdom is finding joy in bewilderment

Peter O'Toole

Where do I begin? I loved working with Kate Hepburn, which was one of the highlights of my life; Working with Richard Burton in Beckett was another great joy.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Joy is the sheer evidence of God.

Rabindranath Tagore

Love adorns itself; it seeks to prove inward joy by outward beauty

Rabindranath Tagore

when you came you cried and everybody smiled with joy; when you go smile and let the world cry for you.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every promise of the soul has innumerable fulfillments; each of its joys ripens into a new want.

Shelley Duvall

We live from day to day and get as much joy out of experiencing as we can.

Susie Orbach

I thought of the analyst Winnicott's observation: 'It is a joy to be hidden but disaster not to be found'.

Suzanne Collins

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.

Stephen Levine

You have to remember one life, one death–this one! To enter fully the day, the hour, the moment whether it appears as life or death, whether we catch it on the inbreath or outbreath, requires only a moment, this moment. And along with it all the mindfulness we can muster, and each stage of our ongoing birth, and the confident joy of our inherent luminosity. (24)

Stephen King

Do it for joy and you can do it forever

Stanley Kunitz

I dance/for the joy of surviving, at the edge of the road.