Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paulo Coelho

JOY goes against the foundations of mathematics: it multiplies when we divide.

Peter Max

Wherever your joy is, go after it, ... pretty ladies.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Paint with joy - with the same joy that you would make love to a woman.

Phillips Brooks

Joy in one's work is the consummate tool.

Pope Francis

Christianity spreads through the joy of disciples who know that they are loved and saved.

Pope Francis

If we wish to follow Christ closely, we cannot choose an easy, quiet life. It will be a demanding life, but full of joy.

Pope Benedict XVI

To the extent that we nourish ourselves on Christ and are in love with him, we feel within us the incentive to bring others to him: Indeed, we cannot keep the joy of the faith to ourselves; we must pass it on.

Pope Benedict XVI

Non-African missionaries, responding generously to the Lord's call with ardent apostolic zeal, came to share the joy of revelation. Following in their footsteps, Africans are today missionaries on other continents.

Pope Benedict XVI

How much we need, in the church and in society, witnesses of the beauty of holiness, witnesses of the splendour of truth, witnesses of the joy and freedom born of a living relationship with Christ!

Therese of Lisieux

When we are expecting only suffering, the least joy surprises us: Suffering itself becomes the greatest of joys when we seek it as a precious treasure.

Therese of Lisieux

I am simply content to find myself always imperfect, and in this I find my joy. Good deeds count as nothing, if done without love.

Therese of Lisieux

In spite of this trial, which takes all enjoyment from me, I can never the less, cry out, 'Lord, you fill me with joy in all that you do. For is there a joy greater than to suffer for love?'

Tertullian

Where our work is, there let our joy be.

Terry Tempest Williams

The Japanese have a word - aware - which, in my understanding is, again, that full range - both the joy and the sorrow of our life. One does not exist without the other. And I really feel that.

Terence McKenna

Ecstasy is not simply joy. Ecstasy is an emotion of great complexity that hovers almost on the edge of terror sometimes.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every promise of the soul has innumerable fulfillments; each of its joys ripens into a new want.

Shelley Duvall

We live from day to day and get as much joy out of experiencing as we can.

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.

Kim Ki-duk

I intended to portray the joy, anger, sorrow and pleasure of our lives through four seasons and through the life of a monk who lives in a temple on Jusan Pond surrounded only by nature.

Thomas Merton

To be truly Catholic is not merely to be correct according to an abstractly universal standard of truth, but also and above all to be able to enter into the problems and the joys of all, to understand all, to be all things to all.

Thomas Merton

You are certainly one of the joys of life for all who have ever come within a mile of you.

Thomas Merton

To enter into the realm of contemplation, one must in a certain sense die: but this death is in fact the entrance into a higher life. It is a death for the sake of life, which leaves behind all that we can know or treasure as life, as thought, as experience as joy, as being. [Every form of intuition and experience] die to be born again on a higher level of life.

Stella Young

I dance as a political statement, because disabled bodies are inherently political, but I mostly dance for all the same reasons anyone else does: because it heals my spirit and fills me with joy.