Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mother Teresa

Where there is love, there is joy.

Mother Teresa

Suffering, if it is accepted together, borne together, is joy.

Mother Teresa

Joy is very infectious; therefore, be always full of joy!

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.

Keith Green

When church is over and there's no one there to listen except the only One who matters, do you still have that same passionate joy in your spirit, just to be alone with the Living God?

Kathleen Winsor

Half the joys and half the sorrows of this world are discovered in bed.

Radhanath Swami

The joy of the soul is in glorification of the beloved Lord of all creation.

Tara Lipinski

I had that feeling of just pure joy and I went out there and put it in my program.

Tony Robbins

Happiness is in the mind, experiences of joy or pleasure should be found in the body; but ongoing joy, pure unadulterated joy, that feeling of bliss for no reason comes when you feel like your life matters because it matters to more than yourself.

Sufjan Stevens

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

Stephen Fry

You've just had the most imponderable joy of watching charlieissocoollike, which makes you, like, cool.

Sri Chinmoy

The world is for newness, not for oldness. New, new things we have to create. Then only the world will progress. If not, we will come to feel that there is nothing new under the sun. We have to create new things to keep our joy. If there is no newness, how can we have enthusiasm? And if there is no enthusiasm, do we make any progress?

T. S. Eliot

This is one moment, / But know that another / Shall pierce you with a sudden painful joy.

Sylvester Stallone

No one's life is totally morbid. Even on a subtle scale there's little flashes of enlightenment and of happiness and joy.

Randy Alcorn

It's dangerous faith in our untamed Savior that leads us to the joy we crave.

Randy Alcorn

When my thirst for joy is satisfied by Christ, sin becomes unattractive.

Rajneesh

To be able to celebrate life is religion. In that very celebration you come close to God. If one is able to celebrate, God is not far away; if one is not able to celebrate life, then God does not exist for him. God appears only in deep celebration, when you are so full of joy that all misery has left you, all darkness has left you.

Rajneesh

Meditate, become more aware and then you will see: choices disappear, a choicelessness arises. And it is such a tremendous joy to have a choiceless spontaneity. It is such a freedom. Choice is such a burden.

Sylvia Plath

Joy:show joy & enjoy: then others will be joyful.

Rollo May

There is a curiously sharp sense of joy - or perhaps better expressed, a sense of mild ecstasy - that comes when you find the particular form required by your creation.

Rollo May

Joy is the effect which comes when we use our powers.

Rumi

The unseen presence keeps saying to us, ‘You are Joy!’

Rumi

Make peace with the universe. Take joy in it. It will turn to gold. Resurrection will be now. Every moment, a new beauty.

Rumi

All we really want is love's confusing joy.

Rumi

You transform all who are touched by you. Mundane concerns, troubles, and sorrows dissolve in your presence, bringing JOY.

Rumi

Let us put away our blinders and answer the call to Joy.

Rumi

This dance is the joy of existence.

Rumi

I will find new meaning in every joy and sorrow.

Rumi

If you love someone, you are always joined with them--in joy, in absence, in solitude, in strife.

Susie Orbach

I thought of the analyst Winnicott's observation: 'It is a joy to be hidden but disaster not to be found'.

Suzanne Collins

Well, I knew that goat would be a little gold mine," I say. Yes, of course I was referring to that, not the lasting joy you gave your sister you love so much you took her place in the reaping," says Peeta drily.