Joy Quotes - Page 117

What power there is in our service when our actions line up with our mission, skills and joy.

To be able to get up and be in my studio and work all day is a great joy.

Too unconcerned to love and too passionless to hate, too detached to be selfish and too lifeless to be unselfish, too indifferent to experience joy and too cold to express sorrow, they are neither dead nor alive; they merely exist.

The article of justification is fragile. Not in itself, of course, but in us. I know how quickly a person can forfeit the joy of the Gospel.

Joys do not stay, but take wing and fly away.

The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.

I am only serious about 20% of the time; one of the great joys of my life is the fact that I alone know when that is.

To be mad is to feel with excruciating intensity the sadness and joy of a time which has not arrived or has already been.

If you go out and watch nature closely, you will find something so joyful that it will completely fill you.

How happy are the pessimists! What joy is theirs when they have proved there is no joy.

The wisdom that comes from having experienced heartbreak cannot be bequeathed; it can only be gained through experience. And having truly felt it, we are far more likely to have compassion for others. Anything that takes us close to true compassion takes us closer to what will one day be an experience of even greater joy.

We must not only obtain Wisdom: we must enjoy her.

Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.

Doubt always hovers nearby, but I take photographs the way a musician hums. Looking is like breathing. So when luck turns my way and offers me a good picture, joy is surely nigh.

When you surrender completely to God, as the only truth worth having, you find yourself in service of all that exists. It becomes your joy and recreation. You never tire of serving others.

O memory, thou bitter sweet,--both a joy and a scourge!

Pranking exposes the truth that underneath this appearance of order is joy, laughter, and disorder.

When you sit in meditation, feel the joy in your soul.

Philosophers are capable of almost endless enjoyment of mutual misunderstanding.

Why did children seem to be so often spontaneous, joy-filled and concentrated while adults seemed controlled, anxiety-filled and diffused? It was the Goddam sense of having a self.

I am totally free to choose thoughts of joy. It is my Divine right to do so.

I relax and enjoy life. I know that whatever I need to know is revealed to me in the perfect time and space sequence.

Today I will run for pure, absolute joy!

Larry Hagman was my best friend for 35 years. He was the Pied Piper of life and brought joy to everyone he knew.

When I feel overwhelmed by misfortune, the greatest joy that the Lord can give me is to go to the altar, to put my forehead against it (as on the day of my ordination to the priesthood), and to feel the presence of the only reality. Not only does calm return, but my body seems to be annihilated; the only true life begins, the life of that which is intangible.