Famous Quotes & Sayings

Epictetus

You can be happy if you know this secret: Some things are within your power to control and some things are not.

Emily Bronte

Time brought resignation and a melancholy sweeter than common joy.

Emily Dickinson

This so much joy! This so much joy! If I should fail, what poverty! And yet, as poor as I Have ventured all upon a throw; Have gained! Yes! Hesitated so this side the victory!

Emily Dickinson

A Letter is a Joy of Earth - It is denied the Gods

Henri Nouwen

Life is a gift, not to possess, but to share.

Heinrich Heine

We know only that our entire existence is forced into new paths and disrupted, that new circumstances, new joys and new sorrows await us, and that the unknown has its uncanny attractions, alluring and at the same time anguishing.

Hilary Mantel

If you are without impulses, you are, to a degree, without joy..." 469

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

As beauteous is the world, and many a joy Floats through its wide dominion. But, alas, When we would seize the winged good, it flies.

Kevyn Aucoin

Today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it.

Khalil Gibran

He who has not looked on Sorrow will never see Joy.

Khalil Gibran

My yearning is my cup, my burning thirst is my drink, and my solitude is my intoxication; I do not and shall not quench my thirst. But in this burning that is never extinguished is a joy that never wanes.

Khalil Gibran

Your joy can fill you only as deeply as your sorrow has carved you.

Napoleon Bonaparte

There is a joy in danger.

Og Mandino

Wealth is good when it brings joy to others.

Orson Welles

I'm not basically a happy person, but I have all kinds of joy.

Orhan Pamuk

In actuality, we don't look for smiles in pictures of bliss, but rather, for the happiness in life itself. Painters know this, but this is preciously what they cannot depict. That's why they substitute the joy of seeing for the joy of life.

Olusegun Obasanjo

My joy knows no bounds... I will devote all my energy and all the powers available to me to the service of Nigeria and humanity.

Octave Mirbeau

The poor are the human manure in which grow the harvests of life, the harvests of joy which the rich reap.

Mel Torme

As a singer, the biggest joy I have are the arrangements.

Mason Cooley

I do not remember joy or sorrow in childhood, but listening for clues.

Mason Cooley

Frivolous sorrow is folly. Frivolous enjoyment is not.

Mason Cooley

I wish you joy of your unhappiness, since you cling to it so.

Mason Cooley

Suffering teaches us only that we suffer. Joy shows us which way to go.

Mason Cooley

The aftermath of joy is not usually more joy.

Mason Cooley

Joy goes as deep as sorrow, but leaves less of itself behind.

Melody Beattie

Let your mind and soul be at ease. Don't grasp and grab for the magic and miracles. When you reside in that place of stillness, the joy, miracles, and magic you're seeking will find you.

Mark Driscoll

Our identity is not in our joy, and our identity is not in our suffering. Our identity is in Christ, whether we have joy or are suffering.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Oh happy pessimists! What a joy it is to them to be able to prove again and again that there is no joy.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

How happy are the pessimists! What joy is theirs when they have proved there is no joy.

Theodore Parker

Religion without joy-it is no religion.

Theodore Roethke

Being, not doing, is my first joy.

Malcolm Muggeridge

The only thing that really teaches one what life's about the joy of understanding, the joy of coming in contact with what life really signifies - is suffering, affliction.

Mahatma Gandhi

Only living things bring living joy to the soul and must elevate it.