Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Twain

Let your joy be unconfined!

Martin Farquhar Tupper

Our cares are all To-day, our joys are all To-day; And in one little word, our life, what is it but--To-day?

Marilyn Monroe

Don't let your fear of failing triumph over the joy of participating.

Mary MacLane

Genius, apart from natural sensitiveness, is prone equally to unreasoning joy and to bitterest morbidness.

Marvin J. Ashton

Pleasure usually takes the form of me and now; joy is us and always.

Ozzy Osbourne

I feel joy when I do a great show.

Ovid

The poet's labors are a work of joy, and require peace of mind.

Ovid

We take no pleasure in permitted joys, But what's forbidden is more keenly sought.

Matthew Fox

We honor life when we work. The type of work is not important: the fact of work is. All work feeds the soul if it is honest and done to the best of our abilities and if it brings joy to others.

Martha Beck

To make an activity joyful, keep adding things until the activity as a whole becomes more appealing than repulsing.

Mark Helprin

...to be paid for one's joy is to steal.

Oswald Chambers

Obey Him with glad reckless joy.

Oswald Chambers

Happiness depends on what happens; joy does not.

Oswald Chambers

Joy comes from seeing the complete fulfillment of the specific purpose for which I was created and born again, not from successfully doing something of my own choosing.

Oswald Chambers

A life of intimacy with God is characterized by joy.

Oswald Chambers

There is no joy in the soul that has forgotten what God prizes.

Michel de Montaigne

It is a disaster that wisdom forbids you to be satisfied with yourself and always sends you away dissatisfied and fearful, whereas stubbornness and foolhardiness fill their hosts with joy and assurance.

Mark Twain

You know that kind of quiver that trembles around through you when you are seeing something so strange and enchanting and wonderful that it is just a fearful joy to be alive and look at it; and you know how you gaze, and your lips turn dry and your breath comes short, but you wouldn't be anywhere but there, not for the world.

Mark Twain

The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow.

Marianne Williamson

The more we allow ourselves to enjoy, the more reasons we find to be joyful.

Marianne Williamson

Depression might have chosen you, but you don't have to choose it back. Sometimes happiness comes with bootstraps, but so what? Pull 'em up. Choose joy.

Marianne Williamson

Don't go to work to make money; go to work to spread joy.

Marianne Williamson

Living meaningfully is what brings joy.

Marianne Williamson

When we are centered in joy, we attain our wisdom.

Mark Leyner

It's in great joy that we grasp truth.

Mario Batali

The kitchen really is the castle itself. This is where we spend our happiest moments and where we find the joy of being a family.

Christian Lous Lange

Within each such social group, a feeling of solidarity prevails, a compelling need to work together and a joy in doing so that represent a high moral value.

Chris Hemsworth

Any time you have someone come up and say they love what you do and they get great joy from it is a very humbling experience.

Gertrude Stein

This joy you feel is life.

George Michael

I don't have joy in watching myself, whereas, actually, I quite like listening to my own music.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

What can become of him if he is in such bondage to the habit of satisfying the innumerable desires he has created for himself? He is isolated, and what concern has he with the rest of humanity? They have succeeded in accumulating a greater mass of objects, but the joy in the world has grown less.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

They have succeeded in accumulating a greater mass of objects, but the joy in the world has grown less.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Intoxicating joy is it for the sufferer to look away from his suffering and forget himself. Intoxicating joy and self-forgetting, did the world once seem to me.