Quotes about joy
joy understanding sorrow
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. Terry Tempest Williams
joy emotion sometimes
Ecstasy is not simply joy. Ecstasy is an emotion of great complexity that hovers almost on the edge of terror sometimes. Terence McKenna
joy soul promise
Every promise of the soul has innumerable fulfillments; each of its joys ripens into a new want. Ralph Waldo Emerson
joy day-to-day
We live from day to day and get as much joy out of experiencing as we can. Shelley Duvall
joy deeds rift
Know the joy of life by piling good deed on good deed until no rift or cranny appears between them. Marcus Aurelius
joy greed ends
All earthly joy begins pleasantly, but at the end it gnaws and kills. Thomas a Kempis
joy life-is variety
The joy of life is variety. Samuel Johnson
joy may fine
No joy so great but runneth to an end,No hap so hard but may in fine amend. Robert Southwell
joy missing
To miss the joy is to miss everything. Robert Louis Stevenson
joy lightning spirit
O the joy of my spirit--it is uncaged--it darts like lightning! It is not enough to have this globe or a certain time, I will have thousands of globes and all time. Walt Whitman
joy lightning spirit
O the joy of my spirit - it is uncaged - it darts like lightning! Walt Whitman
joy madness hours
To drive free, to love free, to court destruction with taunts, to feed the remainder of life with one hour of fullness and freedom - one brief hour of madness and joy. Walt Whitman
joy trying outcomes
The joy of songwriting only gets messed up if you are trying to follow up a big success, or you are trying to create a hit single, or if you have conscious thoughts of a particular outcome for the music. Tim Finn
joy delight members
You can experience true delight on the Sabbath from family history work...Finding family members...can bring immense joy. Russell M. Nelson
joy sorrow passing-away
Joy and sorrow, beauty and deformity, equally pass away. Saadi
joy sorrow harbinger
That sorrow which is the harbinger of joy is preferable to the joy which is followed by sorrow. Saadi
joy looks window
Keep on knocking 'til the joy inside opens a window look to see who's there Rumi
joy making-peace universe
Make peace with the universe. Take joy in it. Rumi
joy challenges risk
Life is all about toiling and labor. But obviously I get great joy in confronting challenge and taking risk. Sufjan Stevens
joy would-be bigs
It would be a joy for me if someone who was working with me became a big success. Shigeru Miyamoto
joy healthy body
Music is my happiness, my joy, and when my body wasn't right I couldn't get into my music without being healed, without being healthy. Sharon Jones
joy feelings program
I had that feeling of just pure joy and I went out there and put it in my program. Tara Lipinski
joy feelings mind
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. Tony Robbins
joy catholic able
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
joy miles joy-of-life
You are certainly one of the joys of life for all who have ever come within a mile of you. Thomas Merton
joy intuition treasure
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. Thomas Merton
joy political doe
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. Stella Young
joy strive feels
Happiness is the joy we feel striving after our potential. Shawn Achor
joy way strive
The way we define happiness is the joy you feel striving toward your potential Shawn Achor
joy anxiety taste
To be a poet is to have an appetite for a certain anxiety which, when tasted among the swirling sum of things existent or forfeit, causes, as the taste dies, joy. Rene Char
joy acting ends
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 Pratt
joy world kind
Tell the world you are a one-of-a-kind creation who came here to experience wonder and spread joy. Expect to be accommodated. Victoria Moran
joy way actors
The joy is when you work with great actors, it just comes to life in a way that you never even imagined. Victor Garber