Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Cowper

A fretful temper will divide the closest knot that may be tied, by ceaseless sharp corrosion; a temper passionate and fierce may suddenly your joys disperse at one immense explosion.

Wayne Dyer

Know that you are part of a joyful Universe. Allow your romantic, ecstatic, blissful emotions to appear more frequently in your daily life. When you feel joy, experience it and express it! As the New Testament says, 'Joy is the fruit of the Spirit.'

Van Morrison

Once you start to analyze it [Joyous Sound], you've completely lost it. That one just came.

Ursula K. Le Guin

If you evade suffering, you also evade the chance of joy.

William Barclay

There is no joy in the world like the joy of bringing one soul to Christ.

Stephen Amell

The thing that I've learned is that there really is no joy, and nothing ever good is going to come from negativity. Those are thoughts that, even if you were presenting an honest version of yourself, there's just no point in sharing.

Tim Tebow

I really try to enjoy life and have joy with what I do.

Thomas Kinkade

It's when I let myself get little that I tumble head over heels into joy.

Victoria Pratt

Acting isn't the be-all end-all. There are a lot of other things in my life that will bring me joy if I didn't act anymore.

Victoria Moran

Tell the world you are a one-of-a-kind creation who came here to experience wonder and spread joy. Expect to be accommodated.

Victor Garber

The joy is when you work with great actors, it just comes to life in a way that you never even imagined.

Victor Hugo

Joy is the reflex of terror.

Russell M. Nelson

You can experience true delight on the Sabbath from family history work...Finding family members...can bring immense joy.

Saadi

Joy and sorrow, beauty and deformity, equally pass away.

Saadi

That sorrow which is the harbinger of joy is preferable to the joy which is followed by sorrow.

Rumi

Keep on knocking 'til the joy inside opens a window look to see who's there

Rumi

Make peace with the universe. Take joy in it.

Sufjan Stevens

Life is all about toiling and labor. But obviously I get great joy in confronting challenge and taking risk.

Mother Teresa

Never let anything so fill you with sorrow as to make you forget the joy of Christ risen.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

If you do anything well, it becomes enjoyable. To keep enjoying something, you need to increase its complexity.

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.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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