Famous Quotes & Sayings

Khalil Gibran

Your joy can fill you only as deeply as your sorrow has carved you.

Harvey Fierstein

A thing of beauty is a joy till sunrise.

Henry A. Wallace

Scientific understanding is our joy. Economic and political understanding is our duty.

Henry B. Eyring

At this and every season, our Savior invites us to join with HIM and others to offer the priceless gift of JOY.

Henry B. Eyring

There is joy guaranteed for the faithful.

Henry B. Eyring

Carrying a grudge is a heavy burden. As you forgive, you will feel the joy of being forgiven.

Helen Hunt

Words are less needful to sorrow than to joy.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

You carry all the ingredients to turn your existence into joy. Mix them, Mix them!

Henry Beston

Poetry is as necessary to comprehension as science. It is as impossible to live without reverence as it is without joy.

Henry David Thoreau

Truth, Goodness, Beauty - those celestial thrins,Continually are born; e'en now the Universe,With thousand throats, and eke with greener smiles,Its joy confesses at their recent birth.

Henry David Thoreau

Surely joy is the condition of life.

Malcolm Muggeridge

The only thing that really teaches one what life's about the joy of understanding, the joy of coming in contact with what life really signifies - is suffering, affliction.

Mahatma Gandhi

Only living things bring living joy to the soul and must elevate it.

Mahatma Gandhi

That parrot's non-co-operation with the cage, with its master, will live for ever because it looks upon renunciation, non-co-operation, as a joy.

James Hunter

There is great joy in leading with authority, which is serving others by meeting their legitimate needs.

Laurence Sterne

Dear sensibility! Source inexhausted of all that's precious in our joys, or costly in our sorrows! Eternal fountain of our feelings! 'tis here I trace thee and this is thy divinity which stirs within me...All comes from thee, great-great SENSORIUM of the world!

Laurence Sterne

So much of motion, is so much of life, and so much of joy, and to stand still, or get on but slowly, is death and the devil.

Friedrich Schiller

Sorrow is brief but joy is endless

Friedrich Schiller

Joy all creatures drink At nature's bosoms...

Friedrich Schiller

Sorrows must die with the joys they outnumber.

Jon Foreman

If comparison is the thief of joy, then our culture is being robbed blind.

Joko Beck

Joy is being willing for things to be as they are.

Joko Beck

We learn in our guts, not just in our brain, that a life of joy is not in seeking happiness, but in experiencing and simply being the circumstances of our life as they are; not in fulfilling personal wants, but in fulfilling the needs of life...

Ludwig van Beethoven

We mortals with immortal minds are only born for sufferings and joys, and one could almost say that the most excellent receive joy through sufferings.

M. Scott Peck

As I grow through love, so grows my joy, ever more present, ever more constant.

Luise Rainer

I have never had a current state of mind. My mind changes a great deal. I am very affected by any sorrow or sad thing, and I am very affected by joy and beauty.

John Bingham

Focus on where you are instead of where you wish you were. The joy will follow.

John Bunyan

And one smiled, and another smiled, and they all smiled, for joy that Christiana was become a pilgrim;

James Clavell

Only by living at the edge of death can you understand the indescribable joy of life - Shogun.

Napoleon Bonaparte

There is a joy in danger.

Og Mandino

Wealth is good when it brings joy to others.

Orson Welles

I'm not basically a happy person, but I have all kinds of joy.

Orhan Pamuk

In actuality, we don't look for smiles in pictures of bliss, but rather, for the happiness in life itself. Painters know this, but this is preciously what they cannot depict. That's why they substitute the joy of seeing for the joy of life.