Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Chin-Ning Chu

Challenge your limitations for the pure joy of challenge.

Edith Wharton

She was not accustomed to taste the joys of solitude except in company.

Agnes Repplier

Next to the joy of the egotist is the joy of the detractor.

Charles de Lint

There are few joys to compare with the telling of a well-told tale.

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.

Beth Moore

He (God) is determined to pursue you because He knows the greatest joy in your life will come from His lan for you.

Madeleine Albright

I was struck by the joy of those pilots in committing coldblooded murder . . . Frankly, this is not cojones. This is cowardice.

Cesare Pavese

The only joy in the world is to begin. It is good to be alive because living is beginning, always, every moment.

Edward Dyer

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Capacity for joy Admits temptation.

Lord Byron

On with the dance! Let joy be unconfined

William Shakespeare

Silence is the perfectest herault of joy. I were but little happy if I could say how much.

Emily Dickinson

'Tis so much joy! 'Tis so much joy! If I should fail, what poverty! And yet, as poor as I Have ventured all upon a throw; Have gained! Yes! Hesitated so this side the victory!

Aaron Neville

My friends and I were wild and we liked to joy-ride.

Before the reward there must be labor. You plant before you harvest. You sow in tears before you reap joy.

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..

William Shakespeare

Tis safter to be that which we destroy Than by destruction dwell in doubtful joy.

With tears of joy, we shared the news and even thought of a name for her.

David Levithan

The thing about champagne,you say, unfoiling the cork, unwinding the wire restraint, is that is the ultimate associative object. Every time you open a bottle of champagne, it's a celebration, so there's no better way of starting a celebration than opening a bottle of champagne. Every time you sip it, you're sipping from all those other celebrations. The joy accumulates over time.

David Jeremiah

Waiting is not always a bad thing; it can bring its own joy -the thrill of anticipation.

David Berg

Heaven is simply going to be an intensification, amplification, magnification and extension of all the thrills and joys and pleasures of this life, the Heaven on Earth that we're now enjoying, only it will be even more Heavenly there, and forever, praise God!

David Berg

Heaven is going to be like this life, only better. It will be like this life with all its joys and beauties and pleasures, but without the drawbacks - with all the assets but none of the liabilities.