Joy Quotes - Page 141

Labour without joy is base. Labour without sorrow is base. Sorrow without labour is base. Joy without labour is base.

Many do not understand how precarious Western civilization is and what a joy it is. From it, we get real democracy. From it, we get the sort of intellectual tolerance that allows me to propound something that may be completely alien to you.

To see Him and know Him and be in His presence is the soul’s final feast. Beyond this there is no quest. Words fail. We call it pleasure, joy, delight. But these are weak pointers to the unspeakable experience.

We do not choose suffering simply because we are told to, but because the one who tells us to describes it as the path to everlasting joy.

We need God in ways we do not know. Don't limit your experience of God to what you can think to ask. Ask for the unknown joy.

They eat, they drink, and in communion sweet Quaff immortality and joy.

I simply would like to live comfortably day by day, fish, swim, enjoy my declining years.

To love women and never enjoy them, is as much to love wine and never taste it.

I don't release records to be anything but enjoyable.

The joy late coming late departs.

But were there ever any Writhed not at passed joy?

In many respects, my work is very enjoyable, for I seem to get on pretty well with the fellows and enjoy the work of instruction as well as my own studies

Lady, I got buddies who died face down in the muck so that you and I could enjoy this family restaurant!

The winds that never moderation knew, Afraid to blow too much, too faintly blew; Or out of breath with joy, could not enlarge Their straighten'd lungs or conscious of their charge.

the more we are oppressed by the cross, the fuller will be our spiritual joy.

Negative thinking keeps us from enjoying life.

True freedom, which is full joy, is the complete recognition of law and adaptation to it. Bondage comes from ignorance of law or opposition to it.

There is something of the freshness of mind, of the lightness of spirit in Linne which for centuries has been linked in people's minds with the mountains of Sweden and Swedish joy in nature.

The misfortune in the state is, that nobody can enjoy life in peace, but that everybody must govern; and in art, that nobody will enjoy what has been produced, but that every one wants to reproduce on his own account.

He scatters enjoyment who can enjoy much.

I'm not a big believer in trying to jam stuff down somebody's throat: 'You're going to do it my way.' I'd rather show by example and live my life and have people say, 'You know what, I want to live like Joel has. He's got peace and joy, and he seems content.'

One can spend too much of one's life locked in stuffy rooms seeking out obscure truths, searching, researching, until one is too old to enjoy life.

I really enjoy the football season.

I was trying to do too many things at the same time, which is my nature. But I was enjoying it, and I still do enjoy it.

Death is as casual and often as unexpected as birth. It is as difficult to define grief as joy. Each is finite. Each will fade.