Famous Quotes & Sayings

Shelley Duvall

We live from day to day and get as much joy out of experiencing as we can.

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.

Stephen Levine

You have to remember one life, one death–this one! To enter fully the day, the hour, the moment whether it appears as life or death, whether we catch it on the inbreath or outbreath, requires only a moment, this moment. And along with it all the mindfulness we can muster, and each stage of our ongoing birth, and the confident joy of our inherent luminosity. (24)

Stephen King

Do it for joy and you can do it forever

Stanley Kunitz

I dance/for the joy of surviving, at the edge of the road.

Stacy London

Style is joyful if you allow yourself to have joy.

Stacy London

Your closet needs to be a place of joy and celebration of who are you now - not who you were.

Soren Kierkegaard

There are, as is known, insects that die in the moment of fertilization. So it is with all joy: life's highest, most splendid moment of enjoyment is accompanied by death.

Marcus Aurelius

Know the joy of life by piling good deed on good deed until no rift or cranny appears between them.

Thomas a Kempis

All earthly joy begins pleasantly, but at the end it gnaws and kills.

Shigeru Miyamoto

It would be a joy for me if someone who was working with me became a big success.

Sharon Jones

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.

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.

Tim Finn

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.

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.

Thomas Merton

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

You are certainly one of the joys of life for all who have ever come within a mile of you.

Thomas Merton

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.

Stella Young

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.

Shawn Achor

Happiness is the joy we feel striving after our potential.

Shawn Achor

The way we define happiness is the joy you feel striving toward your potential