Quotes about joy
joy feelings understanding
Understanding of our fellow human beings...becomes fruitful only when it is sustained by sympathetic feelings in joy and sorrow. Albert Einstein
joy daydreaming term
I live my daydreams in music I see my life in terms of music. I get most joy in life out of music.
joy mind elation
About my method of work: first it’s the state of mind—Elation (joy). Alexander Calder
joy pieces surprise
When everything goes right a mobile is a piece of poetry that dances with the joy of life and surprise!
joy violin knows
I know that the most joy in my life has come to me from my violin.
joy stories tough
Short stories consume you faster. They're connected to brevity. With the short story, you are up against mortality. I know how tough they are as a form, but they're also a total joy. Ali Smith
joy want
We’re only here briefly. And while I’m here I want to allow myself joy. Amy Adams
joy earth
Who promised you that only for joy were you brought to this earth? Anna Freud
joy ordinary ecstasy
I tend to find the ecstasy hidden in ordinary joys because I did not expect those joys to be ordinary to me. Andrew Solomon
joy atheism taught
In theology, the state of a luckless mortal prenatally damned. The doctrine of reprobation was taught by Calvin, whose joy in it was somewhat marred by the sad sincerity of his conviction that although some are foredoomed to perdition, others are predestined to salvation. Ambrose Bierce
joy secret resistance
Resistance is the secret of joy! Alice Walker
joy world energy
Being excited about what we do every day and sharing our gifts with the world is how we cultivate joy and energy. Deepak Chopra
joy world reader
the joy of someone who had been a reader all her life, whose world had been immeasurably enlarged by the words of others. Anna Quindlen
joy vivid retrospect
A lively retrospect summons back to us once more our youth, with vivid reflex of its early joys and unstained pleasures. Alfred de Musset
joy
What a joy it is to dance and sing! Angela Carter
joy-luck-club known happens
I have always known a thing before it happens. Amy Tan
joy sorrow life-is
The truth is life is full of joy and full of great sorrow, but you can't have one without the other. Andre Dubus
joy defiance
I intend to bring you strength, joy, courage, perspicacity, defiance. Andre Gide
joy despair desire
From the satisfaction of desire there may arise, accompanying joy and as it were sheltering behind it, something not unlike despair.
joy world emotion
Well, Id say all of us are a combination of moods and emotions. In my day to day life I dont go around skipping, but at times one can feel sheer exhilarating joy at the world. Alexander McCall Smith
joy understanding finding-yourself
Be content with who you are and where you are, and do whatever you can do to bring to others such contentment, and joy, and understanding that you have managed to find yourself.
joy secret sake
O let us still the secret joy partake, To follow virtue even for virtue's sake. Alexander Pope
joy happens our-lives
It isn't what happens to us in life that creates our joy, but rather how we respond to what happens in our lives. Debbie Ford
joy mind needs
We call "happiness" a certain set of circumstances that makes joy possible. But we call joy that state of mind and emotions that needs nothing to feel happy.
joy riding purpose
Riding exhilarated me; it gave me a joy and a purpose. Ann Romney
joy abnormal taste
Physical experiences, lacking the joys of love, depend on twists and perversions of pleasure. Abnormal pleasures kill the taste for normal ones. Anais Nin
joy sensual body
Then at certain moments I remember one of his words and I suddenly feel the sensual woman flaring up, as if violently caressed. I say the word to myself, with joy. It is at such a moment that my true body lives.
joy mind way
For you and for me the highest moment, the keenest joy, is not when our minds dominate but when we lose our minds, and you and I both lose it in the same way, through love.
joy sorrow diaries
I hid myself within myself ... and quietly wrote down all my joys, sorrows and contempt in my diary. Anne Frank
joy flying firsts
If you clean it up, get analytical, all the subtle joy and emotion you felt in the first place goes flying out the window. Andrew Wyeth
joy feelings spontaneous
Genuine happiness comes from within, and often it comes in spontaneous feelings of joy. Andrew Weil
joy heaven world
Why this is hell, nor am I out of it: Thinkst thou that I who saw the face of God, And tasted the eternal joys of heaven, Am not tormented with ten thousand hells In being deprived of everlasting bliss! . . . When all the world dissolves, And every creature shall be purified, All places shall be hell that are not heaven. Christopher Marlowe
joy mind delight
It is not easy always to be joyful, to keep in mind the duty of delight. Dorothy Day