Famous Quotes & Sayings

Louise Hay

Share your joy with everyone in your world.

Louise Hay

Humor and joy contribute to my total well-being.

Louise Hay

Remember all the times you were a winner; the times when you did something you were proud of, even small things. Hold these feelings close to you, this joy and confidence.

Louise Hay

Prosperity isn't defined by money alone; it encompasses time, love, success, joy, comfort, beauty, and wisdom.

Louise Hay

Make joy and happiness the center of your world.

Leo Tolstoy

These joys were so trifling as to be as imperceptible as grains of gold among the sand, and in moments of depression she saw nothing but the sand; yet there were brighter moments when she felt nothing but joy, saw nothing but the gold.

Leo Tolstoy

Life could be limitless joy, if we would only take it for what it is, in the way it is given to us.

Leo Buscaglia

When we feel joyful, euphoric, happy, we are more open to life, more capable of seeing things clearly and handling daily tensions.

Leo Buscaglia

Love revels in and grows in the moment and the joy of the moment.

Leo Buscaglia

You have the choice. You can choose joy over despair, happiness over tears, action over apathy, growth over stagnation.

Joyce Meyer

Trust and faith bring joy to life and help relationships grow to their maximum potential.

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.

Haruki Murakami

No matter what the situation may be, I still take pleasure in witnessing the joy of others.

John Dryden

Youth should watch joys and shoot them as they fly.

What happiness is, no person can say for another. But no one, I am convinced, can be happy who lives only for himself. The joy of living comes from immersion in something that we know to be bigger, better, more enduring and worthier than we are.

John Lindsay

There's something about the awareness of the limits that makes you tune in more to your surroundings and I've experienced a lot of pleasure or even joy in working with those alternatives and also it's made me so much more aware of just how much work we can make those sources of supply do for us, whether it's electricity or fossil fuels.

John Leguizamo

Bryan Cranston has got such an incredible light touch. He comes in egoless, but with bold opinions, and he wants to play. He wants to play. And that's what I've seen in great actors all my life and what I've always tried to nurture and keep in myself is that joy of playing.

John Lennon

Pools of sorrow. Waves of joy.

John Lennon

Pools of sorrow waves of joy are drifting thorough my open mind possessing and caressing m

John Lasseter

A gem of a short film has a sense of pure joy in animation that is different from anything you see in a feature film.