Joy Quotes - Page 153

If you are a chef, no matter how good a chef you are, it's not good cooking for yourself; the joy is in cooking for others - it's the same with music.

I enjoy doing very high mileages, partly out of masochism and also because I like to feel the shape of the landscape.

Not just self-restraint, that old killjoy, but communal restraint.

Enjoy your work and work for whom you admire.

My joy will be in serving.

I would enjoy having dinner with the poet/playwright Derek Walcott.

Joy and sadness come by turns.

If a person realized that everything people call happiness, love and joy was just a miscalculation based on a false premise, he'd feel a horrible emptiness inside. The only thing that could rouse him from his paralysis would be to gamble with his own face and the face of others. The person capable of that would be permitted anything.

Joy, when it is excessive, overcomes as much as grief.

I really want my acting to be definitive a lot of times, but I must feel like in any given moment there is a lot of things going on with Rose. I kept telling Denzel [Washington] throughout filming [Fences] that the house is her joy and her tomb.

As we have said, robust souls are sometimes almost, but not entirely, overthrown by strokes of misfortune....Despair has steps leading upward. From total depression we rise to despondency, from despondency to affliction, from affliction to melancholy. Melancholy is a twilight state in which suffering transmutes into a somber joy....Melancholy is the enjoyment of being sad.

My ambition is to enjoy my life and to do exactly what I want to do. And I'll do that. I will be free.

Once you start to analyze it [Joyous Sound], you've completely lost it. That one just came.

If you evade suffering, you also evade the chance of joy.

If you're trying to make something funny, and it doesn't feel like you're always getting something, it doesn't have quite a lot of joy.

When I cook, it's something nobody else would enjoy.

I suppose sometimes it takes getting lost to enjoy the joy of being found

Joy is a great purifier. It burns away many polluted currents trying to reach us.

I'm an actor, and part of my joy and my curiosity about the job that I do, is that actors have the privilege of exploring human nature in different ways.

If I'm going to put my name to something and commit to something that's going to take up a lot of my time, it has to be something that I know is going to be enjoyable and worth my while. Otherwise, what's the point?

As an actor, I enjoy variety. That's a big thing for me.

When firmly planted, your testimony of the gospel, of the Savior, and of our Heavenly Father will influence all that you do throughout your life. It will help to determine how you spend your time and with whom you choose to associate. It will affect the way you treat your family, how you interact with others. It will bring love, peace, and joy into your life.

My earnest prayer is that you will have the courage required to refrain from judging others, the courage to be chaste and virtuous, and the courage to stand firm for truth and righteousness. As you do so, you will be ‘an example of the believers’ (1 Timothy 4:12), and your life will be filled with love and peace and joy.

Keep the commandments of God. If you have sinned, the sooner you begin to make your way back, the sooner you will find the sweet peace and joy that come with the miracle of forgiveness. Happiness comes from living the way the Lord wants you to live and from service to God and others.

The more they pay you the more they will respect you and enjoy your show.