Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.