Famous Quotes & Sayings

Francis Chan

Joy is something that we have to choose and then work for.

George Michael

I don't have joy in watching myself, whereas, actually, I quite like listening to my own music.

George Sand

Whoever has loved knows all that life contains of sorrow and joy.

Jean Paul

It is not the end of joy that makes old age so sad, but the end of hope.

James A. Baldwin

Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.

Jackie Gleason

Sometimes the feeling that life is great just swells up inside you and fills you with joy.

Jackie Kennedy

I have been through a lot and have suffered a great deal. But I have had lots of happy moments, as well. Every moment one lives is different from the other. The good, the bad, hardship, the joy, the tragedy, love, and happiness are all interwoven into one single, indescribable whole that is called life. You cannot separate the good from the bad. And perhaps there is no need to do so, either.

Geoffrey Chaucer

The latter end of joy is woe.

Franz Schubert

Nobody understands another's sorrow, and nobody another's joy.

Huston Smith

We all carry it within us: supreme strength, the fullness of wisdom, unquenchable joy. It is never thwarted, and cannot be destroyed.

Hudson Taylor

Our joy in Him may be a fluctuating thing: His joy in us knows no change.

Howard Stringer

I have to determine whether the joy of craplets is worth preserving.

Honore de Balzac

The greatest joy a petty soul can taste is to dupe a great soul and catch it in a snare.

Honore de Balzac

Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.

Ellen Gilchrist

Dance in the fullness of time.

I am not very happy. I take no joy from this victory.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Joy makes us giddy, dizzy.

James Broughton

We are all participants in the marvelous.

James Broughton

The most astonishing joy is to receive from the muses the gift of a whole lyric.

James Broughton

The quietest poetry can be an explosion of joy.

We are all strings in the concert of God's joy.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Hammer and tongs! I am so torn between rage and joy, that if I do not burst, it will be a marvel!

J. R. R. Tolkien

The Resurrection is the eucatastrophe of the story of the Incarnation - This story begins and ends in joy.

Iyanla Vanzant

Do what brings you joy, and your purpose will unfold.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

What can become of him if he is in such bondage to the habit of satisfying the innumerable desires he has created for himself? He is isolated, and what concern has he with the rest of humanity? They have succeeded in accumulating a greater mass of objects, but the joy in the world has grown less.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

They have succeeded in accumulating a greater mass of objects, but the joy in the world has grown less.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Intoxicating joy is it for the sufferer to look away from his suffering and forget himself. Intoxicating joy and self-forgetting, did the world once seem to me.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Whoever commits to paper what he suffers becomes a melancholy author: but he becomes a serious author when he tells us what he suffered and why he now reposes in joy.

Jerry Uelsmann

The anticipation of discovering new possibilities becomes my greatest joy.

Jerome Bruner

Being able to "go beyond the information" given to "figure things out" is one of the few untarnishable joys of life.

Jeff Bridges

Sure, I get the blues. But what I try to do, is apply joy to the blues, you know? I don't know if it's a technique, or just being bent that way, being raised by the folks I was raised by.

Jean-Paul Sartre

This is the basis for the joy of love when there is joy; we feel that our existence is justified.

Gary Zukav

The more you create authentic power, the more the characteristics of authentic power become yours, and the more meaning, purpose and joy enter your life.