Joy Quotes - Page 107

When we have learned how to listen to trees, then the brevity and the quickness and the childlike hastiness of our thoughts achieve an incomparable joy. Whoever has learned how to listen to trees no longer wants to be a tree. He wants to be nothing except what he is. That is home. That is happiness.

The things that have been and shall be no more, The things that are, and that hereafter shall be, The things that might have been, and yet were not, The fading twilight of joys departed.

As so much music is listened to via MP3 download, many will never experience the joy of analog playback, and for them, I feel sorry. They are missing out.

What seems nasty, painful, evil can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind.

If there is one thing clear about the centuries dominated by the factory and the wheel, it is that although the machine can make everything from a spoon to a landing-craft, a natural joy in earthly living is something it never has and never will be able to manufacture.

God is a God of the present. God is always in the moment, be that moment hard or easy, joyful and painful.

But it's often been the case, I've done so many countless small, independent films that really 3.2 people have seen, so you never know. You do it for the joy of the part and not necessarily expect anyone to see the final product.

Certainly it is one of our sweetest experiences that when we are touched by some noble affection or pure joy, we remember the dead most tenderly, and feel more powerfully drawn to them.

Pretending can be a bold form of experimentation and inventiveness. In pretending joy or happiness, we may discover or enhance our capacity for it.

The secret is this. You make your own happiness.

If we were sensible we would seek death - the same blissful blank which we enjoyed before we existed.

Work at something you enjoy and that's worthy of your time and talent.

May your life be crowded with unexpected joys.

Joy always came after pain.

I bet most of us have experienced at some point the joys of less: college - in your dorm, traveling - in a hotel room, camping - rig up basically nothing, maybe a boat. Whatever it was for you, I bet that, among other things, this gave you a little more freedom, a little more time.

Happiness is never really so welcome as changelessness.

That's what life is for, to find that joy in yourself.

The greatest thing that will please God is that you maintain an attitude of unshakable joy.

Everything we now enjoy has been provided through the kindness of other beings, past or present.

From my point of view, there is a lot of joy in stage work.

In joy or sorrow, feebleness or might, Peace or commotion, be thou, Father, my delight.

The joy of working with the Chicago Symphony was immeasureable.

The latter end of joy is woe.

The joy of reading can take you so many different places. In addition to intelligence and stretching your mind, I just think reading is so crucial in terms of being a well-rounded person.

None will ever be a true Parisian who has not learned to wear a mask of gaiety over his sorrows and one of sadness, boredom, or indifference over his inward joy.