Famous Quotes & Sayings

Oscar Wilde

A virtuous abstinence from the joys of pederasty comes most easily to those who have no taste for it.

Oscar Wilde

Perhaps in nearly every joy, as certainly in every pleasure, cruelty has its place.

Michael Jackson

What one wishes is to be touched by truth and to be able to interpret that truth so that one may use what one is feeling and experiencing, be it despair or joy, in a way that will add meaning to one's life and will hopefully touch others as well.

Michel de Montaigne

It is a disaster that wisdom forbids you to be satisfied with yourself and always sends you away dissatisfied and fearful, whereas stubbornness and foolhardiness fill their hosts with joy and assurance.

Madam Ambassador, it's been a joy to work with you while you were at the United Nations.

She was such a joy. When you talked to her, she just glowed.

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.

Jay Cutler

But this year has just been a joy so far.

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.

Rodney Carney

If we can win this, we'll be remembered forever. We can give people joy they'll have for the rest of their lives.

Jean Paul

It is not the end of joy that makes old age so sad, but the end of hope.

James A. Baldwin

Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.

Jackie Gleason

Sometimes the feeling that life is great just swells up inside you and fills you with joy.

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

The more you create authentic power, the more the characteristics of authentic power become yours, and the more meaning, purpose and joy enter your life.

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.

Evelyn Underhill

This is the secret of joy. We shall no longer strive for our own way; but commit ourselves, easily and simply, to God's way, acquiesce in His will, and in so doing find our peace.

Evelyn Waugh

He did not fail in love, but he lost the joy of it [...]

Esther Hicks

Your work is to go forth into this physical environment looking for things that are a vibrational match to joy, connecting to Source Energy, and then following with the inspired action.

Esther Hicks

Success is only measured in terms of JOY

Ethel Waters

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

Ernest Holmes

Joy has come to live with me. How can I be sad? I do so love Thy presence, which is joy within me.

Ernest Holmes

Life is not just something to be endured. It is to be lived in joy, in a fullness without limit (p.82)

Florence Scovel Shinn

I have a wonderful joy in a wonderful way and my wonderful joy has come to stay.

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.

Feist

And of course, pop music is all about memorability and simplicity and positive messages and a little dash of joy.

Faith Hunter

But nothing in life was set in stone and nothing in life is promised us. Not happiness, not joy, not love. Everything was variable and mutable and inconstant.

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.