Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Cohen

Joy is not the result of getting what you want; it is the way to get what you want. In the deepest sense, joy is what you want.

Alan Cohen

Simply be who you are, do what you do best, be where you are called by joy, and let life work its magic on your behalf.

William Shakespeare

Tis safter to be that which we destroy Than by destruction dwell in doubtful joy.

Heinrich Boll

No one will ever know how many novels, poems, analyses, confessions, sufferings and joys have been piled up on this continent called Love, without it ever having turned out to be totally investigated.

Aaron Neville

My friends and I were wild and we liked to joy-ride.

A. J. Muste

Joy and growth come from following our deepest impulses, however foolish they may seem to some, or dangerous, and even though the apparent outcome may be defeat.

Before the reward there must be labor. You plant before you harvest. You sow in tears before you reap joy.

We need this season. I think that will be the ultimate joy, to see us do well this season.

E. F. Schumacher

Work and leisure are complementary parts of the same living process and cannot be separated without destroying the joy of work and the bliss of leisure.

You have robbed me of my son, my pride and joy.

William Shakespeare

Silence is the perfectest herault of joy. I were but little happy if I could say how much.

Charles de Lint

There are few joys to compare with the telling of a well-told tale.

Charles Studd

My only joys therefore are that when God has given me a work to do, I have not refused it.

Charles Spurgeon

Does the world satisfy thee? Then thou hast thy reward & portion in this life; make much of it, for thou shalt know no other joy

Charles Spurgeon

Our hope in Christ for the future is the mainspring and the mainstay of our joy down here today.

Charles Spurgeon

Our joy ends where love of the world begins.

Charles Spurgeon

Sorrow for sin should be the keenest sorrow; joy in the Lord should be the loftiest joy.

Charles Spurgeon

That conversion which is all joy and lacks sorrow for sin, is very questionable.

Al Pacino

My grandfather was a provider. Work, any kind of work, was the joy of his life. So I grew up having a certain relationship to work. It was something that I always wanted.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

We may as well face it: the whole level of spirituality among us is low. We have measured ourselves by ourselves until the incentive to seek higher plateaus in the things of the Spirit is all but gone (We) have imitated the world, sought popular favor, manufactured delights to substitute for the joy of the Lord and produced a cheap and synthetic power to substitute for the power of the Holy Ghost.

Buffy Sainte-Marie

There is so much joy in native culture but so much poverty. It's very disturbing.

Cesare Pavese

The only joy in the world is to begin. It is good to be alive because living is beginning, always, every moment.

Deepak Chopra

True success is the progressive expansion of happiness. It is the ability to express spontaneous joy and share it with others.

Deepak Chopra

There is one experience that brings joy or happiness to every living being. The experience of love.

Deepak Chopra

Being joyful is our natural state of being.

Deepak Chopra

When we harness the natural force of harmony, joy, and love, we create success and good fortune with effortless ease.

Edward Dyer

My mind to me a kingdom is, such present joys therein I find, that it excels all other bliss.

Chin-Ning Chu

Challenge your limitations for the pure joy of challenge.

Charisma Carpenter

I've had the joy of working on critically acclaimed shows, but unfortunately, those shows aren't always in the Golden Globe or Emmy categories, which bums me out because they are really good, quality shows.

Bill Maher

I have such disdain for anybody who gets joy out of blowing the stuffing out of a little woodland creature, that I don't really care if any of them gets shot.

Beth Moore

He (God) is determined to pursue you because He knows the greatest joy in your life will come from His lan for you.

Bernard of Clairvaux

There is no greater misery than false joys.

Charles Kuralt

Look for joy in your life; it's not always easy to find.