Famous Quotes & Sayings

Oswald Chambers

Joy comes from seeing the complete fulfillment of the specific purpose for which I was created and born again, not from successfully doing something of my own choosing.

Oswald Chambers

A life of intimacy with God is characterized by joy.

Oswald Chambers

There is no joy in the soul that has forgotten what God prizes.

Michel de Montaigne

It is a disaster that wisdom forbids you to be satisfied with yourself and always sends you away dissatisfied and fearful, whereas stubbornness and foolhardiness fill their hosts with joy and assurance.

Mark Twain

You know that kind of quiver that trembles around through you when you are seeing something so strange and enchanting and wonderful that it is just a fearful joy to be alive and look at it; and you know how you gaze, and your lips turn dry and your breath comes short, but you wouldn't be anywhere but there, not for the world.

Mark Twain

The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow.

Marianne Williamson

The more we allow ourselves to enjoy, the more reasons we find to be joyful.

Marianne Williamson

Depression might have chosen you, but you don't have to choose it back. Sometimes happiness comes with bootstraps, but so what? Pull 'em up. Choose joy.

Marianne Williamson

Don't go to work to make money; go to work to spread joy.

Marianne Williamson

Living meaningfully is what brings joy.

Marianne Williamson

When we are centered in joy, we attain our wisdom.

Mark Leyner

It's in great joy that we grasp truth.

Mario Batali

The kitchen really is the castle itself. This is where we spend our happiest moments and where we find the joy of being a family.

Christian Lous Lange

Within each such social group, a feeling of solidarity prevails, a compelling need to work together and a joy in doing so that represent a high moral value.

Chris Hemsworth

Any time you have someone come up and say they love what you do and they get great joy from it is a very humbling experience.

Gertrude Stein

This joy you feel is life.

George Michael

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

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.

Neale Donald Walsch

The highest thought is always a thought which contains joy.

Neale Donald Walsch

Do what you do for the sheer joy of it, Do what you choose,not what someone else chooses for you.

Neale Donald Walsch

My joy is in your freedom, not your compliance. I do not want your worship, I do not need your obedience, and it is not necessary for you to serve me. Deity has no needs. "All that is" is exactly that: all that is. It therefore wants or lacks nothing, by definition.

Neale Donald Walsch

The Highest Thought is always that thought which contains joy. The Clearest Words are those words which contain truth. The Grandest Feeling is that feeling which you call love.

Morgan Freeman

Finding joy is probably tantamount to finding yourself and being comfortable in your own skin.

Milan Kundera

...[P]eople who shout joy from the rooftops are often the saddest of all... (p.24)

John C. Reilly

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. Maxwell

We won't fully experience joy until we've answered life's biggest question: Why am I here?

James Stephens

Is it not possible that the ultimate end is gaiety and music and a dance of joy?

James Stewart

Having friends around for a pleasant evening is one of life's most cherished joys as far as I am concerned. But when those with me are fellow believers, how much greater that joy is, for we know that it's rekindled, one day in eternity.

Emile Zola

It all seemed a hollow sham now - that strict code, that conscientious virtue that condemned her to the sterile joys of pious women! No, no, she'd had enough of that; she wanted to live!

Ellen G. White

It is the chief joy of all holy beings to witness the joy and happiness of those around them.