Joy Quotes - Page 149

So far from genius discarding law, rather is it the supreme joy of genius to re-enact the eternal and unwritten law in the chamber of its own intel-lect.

I can remember the very spot in the road, whilst in my carriage, when to my joy the solution occurred to me.

What I say is that the supreme and singular joy of making love resides in the certainty of doing evil.

I noticed the drama majors on campus when I was at Notre Dame. They just seemed to be freer spirits than the rest of us. There was joy in their work; they were the only ones studying something whose work made them happy. I envied that.

Every meeting led to a parting, and so it would, as long as life was mortal. In every meeting there was some of the sorrow of parting, but in everything parting there was some of the joy of meeting as well.

I write music to please myself. Hopefully the director's enjoying it too.

My professional life in Hollywood has been filled with joy and laughter.

I would rather not watch myself in movies. I enjoy the experience, but I won't really see the film until they're on cable deep on into my life so I can pretend it's someone else at another time.

I spend 60 hours a week on my business but I don't work for a minute. Work is hard. But what I do - writing, speaking, researching, learning, and sharing information - is pure joy. It's what I was called to do.

One of the most perfect and unfailing joys of life is planting. It is the creative joy felt by God.

I always enjoy animal acts.

Dance and game are frivolous, unimportant down here; for "down here" is not their natural place. Here, they are a moment's rest from the life we were placed here to live. But in this world everything is upside down. That which, if it could be prolonged here, would be a truancy, is likest that which in a better country is the End of ends. Joy is the serious business of Heaven.

Those who are enjoying something, or suffering something, together, are companions. Those who enjoy or suffer one another, are not.

Joy bursts in our lives when we go about doing the good at hand and not trying to manipulate things and times to achieve joy.

I'm pretty handy! I do a lot of things around the house, and I actually enjoy it.

That we should feed and nourish our souls with high notions of GOD; which would yield us great joy in being devoted to Him.

I hope to enjoy however many days I have on this beautiful Earth and spend as much of it outside as I can surrounded by those I love.

If we don’t allow ourselves to experience joy and love, we will definitely miss out on filling our reservoir with what we need when. . . . hard things happen.

When you get pure joy out of 'being' rather than 'doing' or 'seeing,' that's when you realize how big and unexplainable some things are and being a dad is one of those very few things.

All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.

Instant gratification is so overrated. It's about the process. It's the difficulty. It's the grind of all of it that you better enjoy. That's what makes it great.

I enjoy what I do. I think it shows.

As this New Year begins, ask God to help you tune your life every day to His Word, so you can bring harmony and joy to those around you.

It means that if they misunderstood Comfort and Joy, they misunderstood my other films.

I was sitting in Arizona when I received Dogs on Cape Cod. Seeing the joy these dogs had playing on the beaches and in the marsh grasses on the Cape carried me back to my family visits in Harwich. The dogs are so full of life, it just made me smile.