Joy Quotes - Page 140

It's important to have your private enjoyments because sometimes that's all we have.

It is our duty and our joy to communicate our hearts to each other. Words assist us in this task.

And when he did that, my hands curled into fists because I thought about touching his face like maybe I could catch joy in my hands and hold it.

When the audience enjoys your performance, you feel like a magician who is doing magic. It's a great feeling!

As I have gotten older, I've discovered the joys of being lazy.

I enjoy songwriting. It's slow-motion improvising.

Do not look for joy anywhere else. It is living in you, and gives meaning to all Existence.

When discipline is sown, like a good seed, it yields a harvest of things that fulfill and satisfy us-things that make us happy and release peace and joy in our lives.

We will never enjoy life unless we make a quality decision to do so.

Reconcile the loss of the painting - no matter how many times it may happen - with the joy of beginning again.

Is that what they call a vocation, what you do with joy as if you had fire in your heart, the devil in your body?

I enjoy adapting my own work, or anybody's work. I like to adapt books.

To be an agreeable guest one need only enjoy oneself.

The joy which is caused by truth and noble thoughts shows itself in the words by which they are expressed.

We are often infinitely mistaken, and take the falsest measures, when we envy the happiness of rich and great men; we know not the inward canker that eats out all their joy and delight, and makes them really much more miserable than ourselves.

The very first discovery of beauty strikes the mind with an inward joy, and spreads a cheerfulness and delight through all its faculties.

And the joys I've felt have not always been joyous. I could have lived differently. When I was your age, my grandfather bought me a ruby bracelet. It as too big for me an would slide up and down my arm. It was almost a necklace. He later told me that he had asked the jeweler make that way. Its size was supposed to be a symbol of his love. More rubies, more love. But I could not wear it comfortably. I could not wear it at all. So here is the point of everything I have been trying to say. IF I were to give a bracelet to you, now, I would measure your wrist twice

I really enjoy doing both, but I didn't write nonfiction until 1994.

By working to get away from your circumstance you can make something better of yourself, but there’s no guarantee... But you know what? The joy of it is chasing that dream.

I found golf was too time consuming, but I did enjoy it.

Well, your greatest joy definitely comes from doing something for another, especially when it was done with no thought of something in return.

Let's say I hope that I appeal to the more carefree times in a person's life rather than to his reasoning adulthood. I'd just like to be an image that reminds someone of joy rather than of the problems of the world.

You've had a long working life As everyone knows You can now do nothing at all And then have a doze Enjoy Your Retirement

Americans, more than any other culture on earth, are cookbook cooks; we learn to make our meals not from any oral tradition, but from a text. The just-wed cook brings to the new household no carefully copied collection of the family's cherished recipes, but a spanking new edition of 'Fannie Farmer' or 'The Joy of Cooking'.

Joy never feasts so high as when the first course is of misery.