Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tony Robbins

Happiness is in the mind, experiences of joy or pleasure should be found in the body; but ongoing joy, pure unadulterated joy, that feeling of bliss for no reason comes when you feel like your life matters because it matters to more than yourself.

Rene Char

To be a poet is to have an appetite for a certain anxiety which, when tasted among the swirling sum of things existent or forfeit, causes, as the taste dies, joy.

Thomas Merton

To be truly Catholic is not merely to be correct according to an abstractly universal standard of truth, but also and above all to be able to enter into the problems and the joys of all, to understand all, to be all things to all.

Thomas Merton

You are certainly one of the joys of life for all who have ever come within a mile of you.

Thomas Merton

To enter into the realm of contemplation, one must in a certain sense die: but this death is in fact the entrance into a higher life. It is a death for the sake of life, which leaves behind all that we can know or treasure as life, as thought, as experience as joy, as being. [Every form of intuition and experience] die to be born again on a higher level of life.

Saadi

Joy and sorrow, beauty and deformity, equally pass away.

Saadi

That sorrow which is the harbinger of joy is preferable to the joy which is followed by sorrow.

Rumi

Keep on knocking 'til the joy inside opens a window look to see who's there

Rumi

Make peace with the universe. Take joy in it.

Sufjan Stevens

Life is all about toiling and labor. But obviously I get great joy in confronting challenge and taking risk.

Stephen Fry

You've just had the most imponderable joy of watching charlieissocoollike, which makes you, like, cool.

Sri Chinmoy

The world is for newness, not for oldness. New, new things we have to create. Then only the world will progress. If not, we will come to feel that there is nothing new under the sun. We have to create new things to keep our joy. If there is no newness, how can we have enthusiasm? And if there is no enthusiasm, do we make any progress?

Tim Finn

The joy of songwriting only gets messed up if you are trying to follow up a big success, or you are trying to create a hit single, or if you have conscious thoughts of a particular outcome for the music.

Russell M. Nelson

You can experience true delight on the Sabbath from family history work...Finding family members...can bring immense joy.

Stephen Amell

The thing that I've learned is that there really is no joy, and nothing ever good is going to come from negativity. Those are thoughts that, even if you were presenting an honest version of yourself, there's just no point in sharing.

Tim Tebow

I really try to enjoy life and have joy with what I do.

Thomas Kinkade

It's when I let myself get little that I tumble head over heels into joy.

Victoria Moran

Tell the world you are a one-of-a-kind creation who came here to experience wonder and spread joy. Expect to be accommodated.

Victor Garber

The joy is when you work with great actors, it just comes to life in a way that you never even imagined.

Victor Hugo

Joy is the reflex of terror.

Susie Orbach

I thought of the analyst Winnicott's observation: 'It is a joy to be hidden but disaster not to be found'.

Suzanne Collins

Well, I knew that goat would be a little gold mine," I say. Yes, of course I was referring to that, not the lasting joy you gave your sister you love so much you took her place in the reaping," says Peeta drily.

Stephen Levine

You have to remember one life, one death–this one! To enter fully the day, the hour, the moment whether it appears as life or death, whether we catch it on the inbreath or outbreath, requires only a moment, this moment. And along with it all the mindfulness we can muster, and each stage of our ongoing birth, and the confident joy of our inherent luminosity. (24)

Stephen King

Do it for joy and you can do it forever

Stanley Kunitz

I dance/for the joy of surviving, at the edge of the road.

Stacy London

Style is joyful if you allow yourself to have joy.

Stacy London

Your closet needs to be a place of joy and celebration of who are you now - not who you were.

Soren Kierkegaard

There are, as is known, insects that die in the moment of fertilization. So it is with all joy: life's highest, most splendid moment of enjoyment is accompanied by death.

Sylvia Plath

Joy:show joy & enjoy: then others will be joyful.

Rollo May

There is a curiously sharp sense of joy - or perhaps better expressed, a sense of mild ecstasy - that comes when you find the particular form required by your creation.

Rollo May

Joy is the effect which comes when we use our powers.

Rumi

The unseen presence keeps saying to us, ‘You are Joy!’

Rumi

Make peace with the universe. Take joy in it. It will turn to gold. Resurrection will be now. Every moment, a new beauty.