Quotes about joy
joy alive world
The world was full of beauty. She wanted to grab hold of it and take it down into her bones. Yet always it seemed beyond her grasp. Sometimes only by a little, like now. The thinnest membrane. Usually, though, by miles. She couldn’t expect to be that kind of happy all the time. She knew that. But sometimes you could. Sometimes you should be allowed a tiny bit of joy that should stay with you for more than five minutes. That wasn’t too much to ask. To have a moment like this, and be able to hold on to it. To cross that membrane, and feel alive. Sara Zarr
joy birthright
Joy is your birthright. Sarah Ban Breathnach
joy path moments
Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.
joy darkness suffering
They who shall enter into [the] joy [of the Lord] shall know what is going on outside in the outer darkness. . .The saints'. . . knowledge, which shall be great, shall keep them acquainted. . .with the eternal sufferings of the lost. Saint Augustine
joy forever soul
Oh, God, to know you is life. To serve You is freedom. To praise you is the soul's joy and delight. Guard me with the power of Your grace here and in all places. Now and at all times, forever. Amen.
joy paint enjoyment
I do not presume to explain how to paint, but only how to get enjoyment. Winston Churchill
joy graves earnest
Deemest thou laborOnly is earnest?Grave is all beauty,Solemn is joy. William Watson
joy form humans
To have a human form is a joyful thing. Zhuangzi
joy sage body
We possess our body by chance and we are already pleased with it. If our physical bodies went through ten thousand transformations without end, how incomparable would this joy be! Therefore the sage roams freely in the realm in which nothing can escape, but all endures.
joy shooting scripts
Just learn the whole script before you start shooting. That makes shooting a joy. Even if they rewrite, it's easy. William H. Macy
joy gems
Gem of all joy, jasper of jocundity. William Dunbar
joyful
Be joyful because it is humanly possible. Wendell Berry
joy heaven soul
Our souls, piercing through the impurity of flesh, behold the highest heaven, and thence bring knowledge to contemplate the ever-during, glory and termless joy. Walter Raleigh
joy understanding feelings
Words of divine consciousness: moral exaltation; lasting feelings of elevation, elation, joy; a quickening of the moral sense, which strikes one as more important than an intellectual understanding of things; an alignment of the universe along moral lines, not intellectual ones; a realization that the founding principle of existence is what we call love, which works itself out sometimes not clearly, not cleanly, not immediately, nonetheless ineluctably. Yann Martel
joy cinema boxes
A movie tends to box you in, at least as far as the aesthetics. You have an incredibly kinetic experience, which is the joy of cinema.