Joy Quotes - Page 18

Nourishment is not just “nutrition.” Nourishment is the nutrients in the food, the taste, the aroma, the ambiance of the room, the conversation at the table, the love and inspiration in the cooking, and the joy of the entire eating experience.

Today's circumstances are out of your control but you CAN control your response. Don't let a negative outlook kill your joy today.

I am so fond of tea that I could write a whole dissertation on its virtues. It comforts and enlivens without the risks attendant on spirituous liquors. Gentle herb! Let the florid grape yield to thee. Thy soft influence is a more safe inspirer of social joy.

time is a terrible thing because it erases joys and pains at the same time.

I demand that a film express either the joy of making cinema or the agony of making cinema. I am not at all interested in anything in between.

Life is not just something to be endured. It is to be lived in joy, in a fullness without limit (p.82)

The past is gone, the future is not here, now I am free of both. Right now, I choose joy.

Sorrow is so woven through us, so much a part of our souls, or at least any understanding of our souls that we are able to attain, that every experience is dyed with its color. This is why, even in moments of joy, part of that joy is the seams of ore that are our sorrow. They burn darkly and beautifully in the midst of joy, and they make joy the complete experience that it is. But they still burn.

Of all the joys that lighten suffering earth, what joy is welcomed like a new born child?

To attain eternal happiness one must suffer. He who has reached the state of self-sacrifice has true joy. Temporal joy will vanish.

Dressing is a way of life. It brings you joy. It can give you freedom and liberation, help you to find yourself and to move without restraint. Isn't elegance forgetting what one is wearing?

In contentment and joy are found the height and perfection of all love towards our neighbor.

Your closet needs to be a place of joy and celebration of who are you now - not who you were.

Keep ramping up your level of joy every day. There is no limit to the levels of joy you can reach. You will see change to the degree of joy that you can attain and maintain. The higher the joy you can create within you, the more spectacular the change, and the higher the joy, the faster the change. Your emanation of joy attracts more Joy. The law of attraction will continually send you more feelings of joy!

The surface of things gives enjoyment, their interiority gives life.

Fear of joy is the darkest of captivities.

Idolatry is when you become the source of your own joy. Poverty of spirit is a wonderful thing.

By the wood-shed is a brook. It goes singing on. Its joy-song does sing in my heart.

One of the joys of going to the movies was that it was trashy, and we should never lose that.

Love: I recognize the emotion for what it is, an irrational self-destructive impulse, which is disguised as joy.

The Highest Thought is always that thought which contains joy. The Clearest Words are those words which contain truth. The Grandest Feeling is that feeling which you call love.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

Sometimes it seems things go by too quickly. We are so busy watching out for what's just ahead of us that we don't take the time to enjoy where we are.

The striking thing about the Precious Blood is the bond it establishes between love and suffering in our experience, a bond that has become so close that we have come to think of suffering accepted with joy as the most authentic sign of love with any depth at all.

Existence is this, I thought, a start of joy, a stab of pain, an intense pleasure, veins that pulse under the skin, there is no other truth to tell.