Joy Quotes - Page 162

If you wish to be good "Pantagruelists" (which is to say, live in peace, joy, health, and always dining well), never put too much faith in people who look out through a hole.

The uncertainty of events disturbs the purest enjoyments.

We have often had this particular exchange about climate and landscape and why we both feel so lonely here uprooted. It was what each of us had wanted of course.Besides wanting to experience a place we hated, we wanted to be insomniacs and loners, losers and drop-outs. To know the sky was the only location of meaning and joy left to us.

There is no harbor of peace from the changing waves of joy and despair.

Why is joy not considered a fit subject for an artist?

You cannot judge the value of a life by its quantity. It is by the joy that you are feeling. The more joyful you are, the longer you live. Let yourself relax and breathe and be free and be joyous, and romp.

A woman needs to enjoy life a little bit more. Needs to think about family, needs to think about kids.

Enjoying living was learning to get your money's worth and knowing when you had it.

It's easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.

I'm trying to just accept things, accept the beauty of things and the joy and positivity of things as they are in the moment and accept when it's not that way as well. Because, of course, none of it lasts forever. It's all going to change very rapidly. But that doesn't have to be a bad thing. It doesn't have to be panic-inducing. It can be just the way life is.

In my food world, there is no fear or guilt, only joy and balance.

The doubt of future foes exiles my present joy.

This is what rituals are for. We do spiritual ceremonies as human beings in order to create a safe resting place for our most complicated feelings of joy or trauma, so that we don't have to haul those feelings around with us forever, weighing us down.

. . . it seemed to me that where others had prayed before to their God, in their joy or in their agony, was of itself a sacred place.

When harvests are exuberant, joy and health follow in their train; but let delusive prosperity draw industry from agriculture; let an insiduous disease attack one of its important products; let an insect, or a parasite, fasten on a single esculent, and mark the effect upon commerce and human life. Upon such an event all business is deranged.

Solitude is a condition best enjoyed in company.

The Gauls derided the hairy and gigantic savages of the North; their rustic manners, dissonant joy, voracious appetite, and their horrid appearance, equally disgusting to the sight and to the smell.

Those who dream of the joys of living in a space colony should live in a space colony.

A giant thirst is a great joy when quenched in time.

Thought began to take over and obscured the simple yet profound joy of connectedness with being.

Joy is uncaused and arises from within as the joy of Being. It is an essential part of the inner state of peace, the state that has been called the peace of God. It is your natural state, not something that you need to work hard for or struggle to attain.

If there isn't an emanation of love and joy, complete presence and openness toward all beings, then it is not enlightenment.

When your fulfillment and sense of self are no longer dependent on the future outcome, joy flows into whatever you do. You do what you do because the action itself is fulfilling. Whatever you do or create in that state is of high quality. This is because it is not a means to an end, and so a loving care flows into your doing.

Enthusiasm is intensified enjoyment of what you are doing.

Ask yourself: Is there joy, ease and lightness in what i'm doing? If there isn't then time is covering up the present moment, and life is perceived as a burden or a struggle.