Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Joy is something entirely different from pleasure.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

It is only when the mind is free from the old that it meets everything anew, and in that there is joy.

Jessamyn West

The source of one's joy is also often the source of one's sorrow.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

We do not want joy and anger to neutralize each other and produce a surly contentment; we want a fiercer delight and a fiercer discontent. We have to feel the universe at once as an ogre's castle, to be stormed, and yet as our own cottage, to which we can return to at evening.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Surprise is the secret of joy.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

We actually love ourselves more than we love joy.

Julia Roberts

Something that's such a joy in my life every day - cooking - is this incredible, horrific danger to women around the world.

Neal A. Maxwell

The cavity which suffering carves into our souls will one day also be the receptacle of joy.

Mike Brown

Finding out that something you have just discovered is considered all but impossible is one of the joys of science.

Neil Armstrong

Pilots take no special joy in walking. Pilots like flying.

Mitt Romney

There is no day more joyful in my life than when I see all my family around me. That's the best it gets.

Mireille Guiliano

Once you have to start counting calories, it takes away from the joy of eating.

R. Buckminster Fuller

There is no joy equal to that of being able to work for all humanity and doing what you're doing well.

Princess Margaret

Disobedience is my joy!

Priyanka Chopra

The joy of creating is the truest joy.

Princess Diana

As always, a million heartfelt thanks for bringing such joy into this chick's life.

Nhat Hanh

Our appointment with life is in the present moment. If we do not have peace and joy right now, when will we have peace and joy?

Nhat Hanh

The 7 factors of enlightenment: mindfullness, investigation of mental objects, energy, joy, tranquility, concentration and equanimity.

Nhat Hanh

The necessary condition for the existence of peace and joy is the awareness that peace and joy are available.

Nhat Hanh

The joy of life is born of concentration. When you are having a cup of tea, the value of that experience depends on your concentration. You have to drink the tea with 100 percent of your concentration.

Nhat Hanh

Most of us experience a life full of wonderful moments and difficult moments. But for many of us, even when we are most joyful, there is fear behind our joy.

Nhat Hanh

May all beings learn how to nourish themselves with joy each day.

Nhat Hanh

Fearlessness is not only possible, it is the ultimate joy. When you touch nonfear, you are free.

Nhat Hanh

True love always brings joy to ourself and the one we love. If our love does not bring joy to both of us, it is not true love.

Oprah Winfrey

The commonality in the human experience is the same. We have the same sorrows, and the same triumphs. Joy is joy is joy.

Oprah Winfrey

I know for sure that's what we're here to do: Keep the joy thing going for all seasons.

Oliver Goldsmith

Alas! the joys that fortune brings Are trifling, and decay, And those who prize the trifling things, More trifling still than they.

Kevin Mitnick

I saw myself as an electronic joy rider.

P. J. O'Rourke

Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.

Oscar Wilde

A virtuous abstinence from the joys of pederasty comes most easily to those who have no taste for it.

Oscar Wilde

Perhaps in nearly every joy, as certainly in every pleasure, cruelty has its place.

Michael Jackson

What one wishes is to be touched by truth and to be able to interpret that truth so that one may use what one is feeling and experiencing, be it despair or joy, in a way that will add meaning to one's life and will hopefully touch others as well.

Mark Twain

On with the dance, let the joy be unconfined.