Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Ruskin

Labour without joy is base. Labour without sorrow is base. Sorrow without labour is base. Joy without labour is base.

Mark Twain

You know that kind of quiver that trembles around through you when you are seeing something so strange and enchanting and wonderful that it is just a fearful joy to be alive and look at it; and you know how you gaze, and your lips turn dry and your breath comes short, but you wouldn't be anywhere but there, not for the world.

Mark Twain

The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow.

Marianne Williamson

Depression might have chosen you, but you don't have to choose it back. Sometimes happiness comes with bootstraps, but so what? Pull 'em up. Choose joy.

Marianne Williamson

Don't go to work to make money; go to work to spread joy.

Marianne Williamson

Living meaningfully is what brings joy.

Marianne Williamson

When we are centered in joy, we attain our wisdom.

Mark Leyner

It's in great joy that we grasp truth.

Mario Batali

The kitchen really is the castle itself. This is where we spend our happiest moments and where we find the joy of being a family.

Mason Cooley

I do not remember joy or sorrow in childhood, but listening for clues.

Mason Cooley

Frivolous sorrow is folly. Frivolous enjoyment is not.

Mason Cooley

I wish you joy of your unhappiness, since you cling to it so.

Mason Cooley

Suffering teaches us only that we suffer. Joy shows us which way to go.

Mason Cooley

The aftermath of joy is not usually more joy.

Mason Cooley

Joy goes as deep as sorrow, but leaves less of itself behind.

Melody Beattie

Let your mind and soul be at ease. Don't grasp and grab for the magic and miracles. When you reside in that place of stillness, the joy, miracles, and magic you're seeking will find you.

She was really, really focused. She did a lot of scoring and dishing off. When she sat out a quarter, we really didn't miss a beat. Joy Rutland was phenomenal.

Taya Kyle

For quite a while, it didn't feel right. How could I feel joy when I lost the love of my life? I'm learning that those two things can co-exist. It will never be the same joy, but it doesn't mean there won't be joy.

He was a pleasure, a joy. He was everything.

Jackie Kennedy

I have been through a lot and have suffered a great deal. But I have had lots of happy moments, as well. Every moment one lives is different from the other. The good, the bad, hardship, the joy, the tragedy, love, and happiness are all interwoven into one single, indescribable whole that is called life. You cannot separate the good from the bad. And perhaps there is no need to do so, either.

Gary Zukav

We have much to do together. Let us do it in wisdom and love and joy. Let us make this the human experience.

Gary Zukav

Joy is a very high frequency current of energy with a great deal of energy content. Somebody who is joyful has a lot of energy.

Jason Mraz

If you have nothing but love for your avocados, and you take joy in turning them into guacamole, all you need is someone to share it with.

Hilary Swank

I wake up so full of life and feeling so alive and so full of joy when I get to go to a set and tell a story. I just - I couldn't imagine not having that, and what a gift it's been in my life.

Ethel Waters

When I act I try to express the suffering or joy I've known during my lifetime.

Florence Welch

I'm completely in love with the world but also terrified of it. It creates some overwhelming feelings. Wanting to battle out that joy and fear is part of my music.

Ezra Taft Benson

Without Christ there would be no Christmas and without Christ there can be no fulness of JOY

Eve Ensler

You will touch this joy and you will suddenly know it is what you were looking for your whole life, but you were afraid to even acknowledge the absence because the hunger for it was so encompassing.

Eve Ensler

Wouldn't it be incredible if everyone could be purged, somehow, of the projected not-them badness that they internalized and perhaps have acted out because their souls have been so damaged? Wouldn't it be incredible if everyone could find the joy that comes with committing to our own goodness? Perhaps we would stop dividing ourselves into malignancies of various forms.

Francis Chan

Joy is something that we have to choose and then work for.

George Michael

I don't have joy in watching myself, whereas, actually, I quite like listening to my own music.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

What can become of him if he is in such bondage to the habit of satisfying the innumerable desires he has created for himself? He is isolated, and what concern has he with the rest of humanity? They have succeeded in accumulating a greater mass of objects, but the joy in the world has grown less.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

They have succeeded in accumulating a greater mass of objects, but the joy in the world has grown less.