Quotes about joy
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 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 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 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 world excitement
My life, my joy, my food, my ail the world! William Shakespeare
joy excitement lasting
For here, I hope, begins our lasting joy.
joy world excitement
There's nothing in this world can make me joy.
joy pleasure merry
Thou mak'st me merry: I am full of pleasure; let us be jocund
joy ultimate
We need this season. I think that will be the ultimate joy, to see us do well this season.
joy leisure bliss
Work and leisure are complementary parts of the same living process and cannot be separated without destroying the joy of work and the bliss of leisure. E. F. Schumacher
joy pride robbed
You have robbed me of my son, my pride and joy.
joy remembrance departed
Of joys departed, not to return, how painful the remembrance Robert Blair
joy humanity singing
I cannot imagine a more satisfying calling than my own: beauty, humanity, and history every day, combined with the cathartic joy of singing. Renee Fleming
joy sorrow genuine
Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow. Rene Descartes
joy bells able
While the steeples are loud in their joy, To the tune of the bells' ring-a-ding, Let us chime in a peal, one and all, For we all should be able to sing Hullah baloo. Thomas Hood
joy emotion
The writer's joy is the thought that can become emotion, the emotion that can wholly become a thought. Thomas E. Mann
joy missionary return
Dedicated missionary service returns a dividend of eternal joy which extends throughout mortality and into eternity. Thomas S. Monson
joy soul darkness
Serving throughout the world is a great missionary force going about doing good. Missionaries teach truth. They dispel darkness. They spread joy. They bring precious souls to Christ.
joy missing might
Your natural inclination is to preach and to warn other travellers of snags in the path, but isn't it better to signal to them some of the joys by the way which they might otherwise miss? Robert Baden-Powell
joy cameras actors
My great joy in working on anything is stepping out in front of the camera and working with the actors. Rob Marshall
joy painful moments
This is one moment, / But know that another / Shall pierce you with a sudden painful joy. T. S. Eliot
joy enlightenment littles
No one's life is totally morbid. Even on a subtle scale there's little flashes of enlightenment and of happiness and joy. Sylvester Stallone
joy untamed dangerous
It's dangerous faith in our untamed Savior that leads us to the joy we crave. Randy Alcorn
joy unattractive sin
When my thirst for joy is satisfied by Christ, sin becomes unattractive.
joy darkness able
To be able to celebrate life is religion. In that very celebration you come close to God. If one is able to celebrate, God is not far away; if one is not able to celebrate life, then God does not exist for him. God appears only in deep celebration, when you are so full of joy that all misery has left you, all darkness has left you. Rajneesh
joy choices spontaneity
Meditate, become more aware and then you will see: choices disappear, a choicelessness arises. And it is such a tremendous joy to have a choiceless spontaneity. It is such a freedom. Choice is such a burden.