Famous Quotes & Sayings

Evelyn Waugh

He did not fail in love, but he lost the joy of it [...]

Evan Dando

For me, it's all about The Dubliners by James Joyce. I love The Dead.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Life is fountain of joy; but where the rabble also gather to drink, all wells are poisoned.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Joy wants the eternity of all things, wants deep, wants deep eternity.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The states in which we infuse a transfiguration and a fullness into things and poetize about them until they reflect back our fullness and joy in life...three elements principally: sexuality, intoxication and cruelty all belonging to the oldest festal joys.

George Bernard Shaw

The joy in life is to be used for a purpose. I want to be used up when I die.

Jack Kornfield

To become mindful … present … is really the invitation to work with the joys and the sorrows of the world, and to do so with this gift, this capacity of loving awareness, of attention that actually can be present for the whole dance.

Jack Kornfield

Live in joy, luminosity, and peace even among the troubles of the world. Remember who you are.

Jack Canfield

Anything that's motivated from fear will ultimately take you down the wrong road and lead you in a cul de sac, anything motivated from purpose, from joy, and from love will take you on an evolutionary path to greater and greater happiness.

Jack Canfield

The things that bring you the greatest joy are in alignment with your purpose.

J. D. Salinger

Happiness is a solid and joy is a liquid.

J. I. Packer

Joy is a condition that is experienced, but it is more than a feeling; it is, primarily, a state of mind.

Isabelle Adjani

There has also been much love, joy, evidence of admiration, there has never been one without the other.

Jack Kerouac

The more ups and downs, the more joy I feel. The greater the fear, the greater the happiness I feel.

Jack Kerouac

The first sip [of tea] is joy, the second is gladness, the third is serenity, the fourth is madness, the fifth is ecstasy.

Carles Puyol

It was time for some joy. We had to suffer.

Now I feel the joy of winning again.

Now my joys are few, and my pains are many. In utter agony, I pass my life.

A day of sorrow is longer than a month of joy

Goldie Hawn

I wanted to investigate the nature of this joy.

Roberto Benigni

Thank you! This is a moment of joy and I want to kiss everybody, the makers of the joy.

Robert Burton

All my joys to this are folly, / Naught so sweet as melancholy.

It's a time you're supposed to have joy and it's saddened it a lot. It's like something is missing from my heart.

Confucius

As long as I have rice to eat, and pure water to drink, I can find joy within.

A joyful and pleasant thing it is to be thankful

Ricardo Lagos

This is a day of joy and national unity,

Rachel Platten

There's a joy I think people feel from... my performance.

Raising our son was a joy ... Little League, scouts, everything.

Ed Asner

Raising kids is part joy and part guerilla warfare.

Jane Roberts

I will be unneeded, and gladly so, when you realize that the vitality and reinforcement and joy are your own, and rise from the fountain of your own beings; when you realize that you do not need me for protection, for there is nothing you need protect yourself against.

Cassandra Clare

How they loved each other, these three, how they had suffered for each another, and yet how much joy they clearly took from simply being in the same room.

Katrina Law

Working with Katie Cassidy is amazing... That woman is so prepared and so professional and talented, it's such a joy to show up with her to work with her everyday.

Katrina Law

Whenever I do get to work with John Barrowman, it is absolutely a joy. We just crack each other up.