Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mahatma Gandhi

There is little that separates humans from other sentient beings - we all feel joy, we all deeply crave to be alive and to live freely, and we all share this planet together.

Mahatma Gandhi

Suffering cheerfully endured, ceases to be suffering and is transmuted into an ineffable joy.

Mahatma Gandhi

When you surrender completely to God, as the only truth worth having, you find yourself in service of all that exists. It becomes your joy and recreation. You never tire of serving others.

Haruki Murakami

No matter what the situation may be, I still take pleasure in witnessing the joy of others.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

As beauteous is the world, and many a joy Floats through its wide dominion. But, alas, When we would seize the winged good, it flies.

John C. Reilly

There's so much joy in doing comedy work, and that's one of the reasons I like to do it - because it's just a hilarious day at work.

John C. Maxwell

We won't fully experience joy until we've answered life's biggest question: Why am I here?

James Stephens

Is it not possible that the ultimate end is gaiety and music and a dance of joy?

James Stewart

Having friends around for a pleasant evening is one of life's most cherished joys as far as I am concerned. But when those with me are fellow believers, how much greater that joy is, for we know that it's rekindled, one day in eternity.

Emily Dickinson

A Letter is a Joy of Earth - It is denied the Gods

Edward Carpenter

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.

Eckhart Tolle

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

If there isn't an emanation of love and joy, complete presence and openness toward all beings, then it is not enlightenment.

Lord Byron

The memory of joy is no longer joy; the memory of pain is pain still.

Holbrook Jackson

Your readiest desire is your path to joy... even if it destroys you.

Henri Nouwen

Life is a gift, not to possess, but to share.

Heinrich Heine

We know only that our entire existence is forced into new paths and disrupted, that new circumstances, new joys and new sorrows await us, and that the unknown has its uncanny attractions, alluring and at the same time anguishing.

Hilary Mantel

If you are without impulses, you are, to a degree, without joy..." 469

John Dryden

Youth should watch joys and shoot them as they fly.

What happiness is, no person can say for another. But no one, I am convinced, can be happy who lives only for himself. The joy of living comes from immersion in something that we know to be bigger, better, more enduring and worthier than we are.

John Lindsay

There's something about the awareness of the limits that makes you tune in more to your surroundings and I've experienced a lot of pleasure or even joy in working with those alternatives and also it's made me so much more aware of just how much work we can make those sources of supply do for us, whether it's electricity or fossil fuels.

John Leguizamo

Bryan Cranston has got such an incredible light touch. He comes in egoless, but with bold opinions, and he wants to play. He wants to play. And that's what I've seen in great actors all my life and what I've always tried to nurture and keep in myself is that joy of playing.

John Lennon

Pools of sorrow. Waves of joy.

John Lennon

Pools of sorrow waves of joy are drifting thorough my open mind possessing and caressing m

John Lasseter

A gem of a short film has a sense of pure joy in animation that is different from anything you see in a feature film.

Always, in every prayer of mine for you, all making request with joy. (Philippians 1:4)

Ricardo Lagos

This is a day of joy and national unity,

Rachel Platten

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

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.

It was the first time I didn't work on straight commission. It wasn't like a big sacrifice at all. It was a joy to make the transition.

Charisma Carpenter

I've had the joy of working on critically acclaimed shows, but unfortunately, those shows aren't always in the Golden Globe or Emmy categories, which bums me out because they are really good, quality shows.

Edward Dyer

My mind to me a kingdom is, such present joys therein I find, that it excels all other bliss.

Agatha Christie

To care passionately for another human creature brings always more sorrow than joy; but at the same time, Elinor, one would not be without experience. Anyone who has never really loved has never really lived..