Joy Quotes - Page 120

An improper art aims at exciting in the way of comedy the feeling of desire but the feeling which is proper to comic art is the feeling of joy.

He was one of those inexplicable gifts of nature, an artist who leaps over boundaries, changes our nervous systems, creates a new language, transmits new kinds of joy to our startled senses and spirits.

Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for yr own joy

Joy is what we are, not what we must get. Joy is the realization that all we want or need in life has been etched into our souls. Joy helps us see not what we are "going through," but what we are "growing to"-a greater sense of understanding, accomplishment, and enlightenment. Joy reveals to us the calm at the end of the storm, the peace that surpasses the momentary happiness of pleasure. If we keep our minds centered on joy, joy becomes a state of mind.

There has also been much love, joy, evidence of admiration, there has never been one without the other.

My life is about ups and downs, great joys and great losses.

I've sorta learned that I'm so tired of taking myself so seriously. It's so great to show up at work and truly enjoy every word you say.

Duke is an ugly word in Kentucky. Nothing in the world compares to the joy of beating those hateful swine from Duke.

I praise the God of grace; I trust His truth and might; He calls me His, I call Him mine. My God, my joy and light

Thought is a key to all treasures; the miser's gains are ours without his cares. Thus I have soared above this world, where my enjoyments have been intellectual joys.

Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it.

I try to live in a little bit of my own joy and not let people steal it or take it.

God is merely tuning the soul, as an instrument, in this life. And these joys of the Christian, are only the notes and chords that are sounded out in the preparation--preludes to the perfect harmony that shall flood the soul--forerunners of the perfected and rapturous joy that shall bless the soul, in that exceeding and eternal weight of glory.

A real friend ... exults in his friend’s happiness, rejoices in all his joys, and is ready to afford him the best advice.

The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.

In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.

Instead of asking 'How much damage will the work in question bring about?' why not ask 'How much good? How much joy?'

Freindships multiply joys and divide griefs

It is the greatest of all advantages to enjoy no advantage at all.

The happiest is he who suffers the least pain; the most miserable, he who enjoys the least pleasure.

Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.

The hands of those I meet are dumbly eloquent to me. The touch of some hands is an impertinence. I have met people so empty of joy, that when I clasped their frosty finger-tips, it seemed as if I were shaking hands with a northeast storm.

Music is the voice of all sorrow, all joy. It needs no translation.

Suffering is seeing what Jesus sees, and joy is doing what Jesus does.

Eruption of joy at the fall of an Indian wicket can only mean one thing