Famous Quotes & Sayings

Hilary Mantel

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

Julie Bowen

As I have gotten older, I've discovered the joys of being lazy.

Joyce Meyer

Traditions are a common part of our lives. They can be good, and not all traditions are wrong, but sometimes they can take the joy out of life.

Josh McDowell

My joy in life is not because I have not had any problems. I have joy because I have learned there is nothing too great for Gods power to deal with, nor anything too small or insignificant for His love to be concerned about.

Joseph Fiennes

I guess there's nothing I don't like about Merlin, in this presentation. I love everything, even the things I find despicable and abhorrent in Merlin. They're actually a joy to ride on the tailcoats of.

Lawrence Welk

To be granted some kind of usable talent and to be able to use it to the fullest extent of which you are capable - this, to me, is a kind of joy that is almost unequaled.

Layne Staley

I'm dumbfounded by me all the time. Wow! What a.... thrill.....and a joy

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.

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.

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?

George Clooney

All I will say is we get wiser as we get older. And that what I am looking for in life is the same as I always have; happiness, peacefulness and joy. And that's all I'm going to say about that because otherwise I'd get into trouble

John Keats

But were there ever any Writhed not at passed joy?

Paramahansa Yogananda

He who finds joy within himself discovers that his body is charged with electric current, life energy, not from food but from God.

Paramahansa Yogananda

From joy I came, for joy I live, in sacred joy I melt.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

I have drunken deep of joy...

Percy Bysshe Shelley

When the power of imparting joy is equal to the will, the human soul requires no other heaven.

Mary Oliver

Joy is not made to be a crumb. (Don't Hesitate)

Pope Benedict XVI

Joy is the true gift of Christmas...

Pope Benedict XVI

Anyone who has discovered Christ must lead others to him. A great joy cannot be kept to oneself. It has to be passed on.

Pope Benedict XVI

May you always experience the joy that comes from putting Christ at the centre of your lives.

Pindar

For lawless joys a bitter ending waits.

Pierre de Coubertin

May joy and good fellowship reign, and in this manner, may the Olympic Torch pursue its way through ages, increasing friendly understanding among nations, for the good of a humanity always more enthusiastic, more courageous and more pure.

Pope Francis

Our deepest joy comes from Christ: remaining with him, walking with him, being his disciples.

Pope Francis

Do not be afraid of what God asks of you! It is worth saying `yes' to God. In him we find joy.

Paulo Coelho

If there is suffering, then it's best to accept it, because it won't go away just because you pretend it's not there. If there is joy, then it's best to accept that too, even though you're afraid it might end one day.