Quotes about joy
joy suffering serious
Whoever commits to paper what he suffers becomes a melancholy author: but he becomes a serious author when he tells us what he suffered and why he now reposes in joy. Friedrich Nietzsche
joy satisfaction opinion
The joy a person is usually seen to express at the conversion of another to his opinion is seldom more than the impulse of egotistical satisfaction at being considered worthy of didactic imitation. Norm MacDonald
joy coaching elements
What is the good of life if its chief element, and that which must always be its chief element, is odious? No, the only true economy is to arrange so that your daily labor shall be itself a joy. Edward Carpenter
joy world flow
When you say, 'I enjoy doing this or that', it is really a misperception. It makes it appear that the joy comes from what you do, but that is not the case. Joy does not come from what you do, it flows into what you do and thus into this world from deep within you. Eckhart Tolle
joy enlightenment openness
If there isn't an emanation of love and joy, complete presence and openness toward all beings, then it is not enlightenment.
joy longer memory pain
The memory of joy is no longer joy; the memory of pain is pain still. Lord Byron
joy desire path
Your readiest desire is your path to joy... even if it destroys you. Holbrook Jackson
joy too-much teeth
I masturbate. A lot. And yet, I don't floss because it's too much of a hassle. Ten seconds of joy over a lifetime of tooth decay, that's what I've chosen. Jon Stewart
joy lazy being-lazy
As I have gotten older, I've discovered the joys of being lazy. Julie Bowen
joy suffering treasure
When we are expecting only suffering, the least joy surprises us: Suffering itself becomes the greatest of joys when we seek it as a precious treasure. Therese of Lisieux
joy catholic done
I am simply content to find myself always imperfect, and in this I find my joy. Good deeds count as nothing, if done without love.
joy suffering trials
In spite of this trial, which takes all enjoyment from me, I can never the less, cry out, 'Lord, you fill me with joy in all that you do. For is there a joy greater than to suffer for love?'
joy
Where our work is, there let our joy be. Tertullian
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 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
You've just had the most imponderable joy of watching charlieissocoollike, which makes you, like, cool. Stephen Fry
joy progress world
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? Sri Chinmoy
joy untamed dangerous
It's dangerous faith in our untamed Savior that leads us to the joy we crave. Randy Alcorn
joy unattractive sin
When my thirst for joy is satisfied by Christ, sin becomes unattractive.
joy darkness able
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
joy choices spontaneity
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.
joy able
It's a joy to actually be able to control your own music. Rob Halford
joy missing
To miss the joy is to miss everything. Robert Louis Stevenson
joy triumph inevitable
The joy of life consists in the inevitable, continual triumph of new values. Wassily Kandinsky
joy tragedy ireland-and-the-irish
Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy. William Butler Yeats
joy overcoming triumph
Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
joy tragedy periods
The Irishman sustains himself during brief periods of joy by the knowledge that tragedy is just around the corner.
joy secret serving
My joy will be in serving. Walter Russell
joy acting
One of the joys about acting is researching. William Sanderson
joy remember embers
O joy! that in our embers Is something that doth live, That nature yet remembers What was so fugitive! William Wordsworth
joy faces glad
And often, glad no more, We wear a face of joy because We have been glad of yore.
joy age misery
Those who know the joys and miseries of celebrities when they have passed the age of forty know how to defend themselves. Sarah Bernhardt