Joy Quotes - Page 166

One always treads with a joyful step when one has dropped the burden called the ego.

Joy passed, but happiness never completely disappeared; a touch of it would always remain to remind one it had been there. It was happiness that made one smile, then.

Stress isn't only a joy stealer. The way we respond to it can be sin.

The joy of the Lord is your strength and the person of Christ is your unassailable joy - and the battle for joy is nothing less than fighting the good fight of faith.

I've never seen people enjoying their husbands' deaths so much

If there is one pleasure on earth which surpasses all others, it is leaving a play before the end. I might perhaps except the joy of taking tickets for a play, dining well, sitting on after dinner, and finally not going at all. That, of course, is very heaven.

It's not a pleasure torturing actors, although some of them enjoy it.

I enjoy being around people who disagree with me; and I enjoy being in non-political contexts and activities.

And below the heimongmong, all along the ground, were weeds already spilling out over the edges, running wild in every direction.

For unlike my mother, I did not believe I could be anything I wanted to be. I could only be me.

We are lost, she and I, unseen and not seeing, unheard and not hearing, unknown by others.

And now I also see what part of me is Chinese. It is so obvious. It is my family. It is in our blood.

I have always known a thing before it happens.

We have to carry through to the next day and hope that we will be okay tomorrow as we are today and in the meantime, enjoy life.

Everybody enjoys when a woman is her own character in a movie or otherwise.

I am an optimist. I think, as bad as life sometimes gets, there is so much joy and so much good stuff, that there is a balance.

Let us love the passing hour, let us hurry up and enjoy our time.

I suppose that for most people one of the darker joys of gardening is that once you've got started it's not at all hard to find someone who knows a little bit less than you.

Resistance is the secret of joy!

We are not sure of sorrow, And joy was never sure; Today will die tomorrow; Time stoops to no man's lure.

Well, Id say all of us are a combination of moods and emotions. In my day to day life I dont go around skipping, but at times one can feel sheer exhilarating joy at the world.

When literature is discovered, a revelation occurs: the joyful, exultant knowledge that anything can happen.

Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it. One should earn one's living by work of which one is sure one is capable. Only when we do not have to be accountable to anybody can we find joy in scientific endeavor.

The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in a time of pain or joy.

Life does not require you to sacrifice or compromise your joy to get what you want. Joy is what you want, so when you choose in harmony with it, you are fulfilling your purpose in living.