Joy Quotes - Page 106

Everything is in constant flux on this earth. Nothing keeps the same unchanging shape, and our affections, being attached to things outside us, necessarily change and pass away as they do. Always out ahead of us or lagging behind, they recall a past which is gone or anticipate a future which may never come into being; there is nothing solid there for the heart to attach itself to. Thus our earthly joys are almost without exception the creatures of a moment.

There is a joy in sorrow which none but a mourner can know.

It is not what we have but what we enjoy that constitutes our abundance.

Money and fame that photography can bring you are wonderful, but nothing can compare to the joy of seeing something new.

Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I'm destroying myself.

There is no big mystery to Tantra. It is in the allowance and grace of the breath. Breathe easy and naturally and you will open the door to a sacred intent. With this sacred intent, love making becomes spiritual and holy. You open the gateway to total joy and you embrace the divine, erotic impulse. So breathe and relax. This is tantra.

Believe, then, that you are a being unlimited by nature, born into flesh to materialize as best you can the great joy and spontaneity of your nature.

Poems allow us not only to bear the tally and toll of our transience, but to perceive, within their continually surprising abundance, a path through the grief of that insult into joy.

You want to see the joy in people, and you want to see the person that always dreamt of being a star, you know? You want to see people having a great time. So Mariah Carey is a huge fan of George Michael.

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

Act is the blossom of thought; and joy and suffering are its fruits; thus does a man garner in the sweet and biter fruitage of his own husbandry

To become mindful … present … is really the invitation to work with the joys and the sorrows of the world, and to do so with this gift, this capacity of loving awareness, of attention that actually can be present for the whole dance.

What looks like enjoyment is the sneer of contempt. That's not a smile.

Well, I don't ever get excited. I haven't been excited since I got a Chopper bicycle when I was about 12. Once you get older you realise there's always a catch to everything. So when I get, say, a commission to make a TV show, the catch is that you have to deliver something and then the sense of responsibility overwhelms the joy of the occasion.

We ought not to have to wait for sorrow before we can appreciate the sweetness of joy.

Happiness is a solid and joy is a liquid.

Today, I choose awareness. I choose to be aware of the beauty of life and living. I choose to be aware of the simple pleasures in life. I choose awareness of joy, awareness of peace, and awareness of love.

Modeling was not an endgame for me. I didn't particularly enjoy the act of it.

It is not the visions but the activity which makes you happy, and the joy and glory of the flier is the flight itself.

Nothing can convince me that people are at one with their work unless they're joyous about it.

We find that the more a cultivated reason devotes itself to the aim of enjoying life and happiness, the further does man get away from true contentment.

Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.

Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.

But most is all to do with work. There are aspects of work that are enjoyable, that you could call a hobby.

The Scythians take kannabis seed, creep in under the felts, and throw it on the red-hot stones. It smolders and sends up such billows of steam-smoke that no Greek vapor bath can surpass it. The Scythians howl with joy in these vapor-baths, which serve them instead of bathing, for they never wash their bodies with water.