Joy Quotes - Page 36

What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree.

All we see of someone at any moment is a snapshot of their life, there in riches or poverty, in joy or despair. Snapshots don't show the million decisions that led to that moment.

A good Soul hath neither too great joy, nor too great sorrow: for it rejoiceth in goodness; and it sorroweth in wickedness. By the means whereof, when it beholdeth all things, and seeth the good and bad so mingled together, it can neither rejoice greatly; nor be grieved with over much sorrow.

From joy I came, for joy I live, in sacred joy I melt.

Love, joy and peace for the world, that’s what I want...peace for the world and love.

The enemy of joy is not suffering, it is idolatry.

Joy acts like a trampoline, everything that touches it bouncing right back off it.

I now discover how wonderful I am. I choose to love and enjoy myself.

Sorrow does not take away, but adds to the Christian's joy.

What if your purpose is to take impeccable care of yourself so that you have the energy and joy to serve others?

You gotta live life. You gotta enjoy life. I mean, I don't live on the edge.

When bounteous autumn rears her head, he joys to pull the ripened pear.

I was a Catholic boy, redeemed through pain, not through joy.

Don't hold on to religion and miss the joy of knowing Jesus.

Even as the finite encloses an infinite series And in the unlimited limits appear, So the soul of immensity dwells in minutia And in the narrowest limits no limit in here. What joy to discern the minute in infinity! The vast to perceive in the small, what divinity!

Art postulates communion, and the artist has an imperative need to make others share the joy which he experiences himself.

At the center of the religious life is a peculiar kind of joy, the prospect of a happy ending that blossoms from necessarily painful ordeals, the promise of human difficulties embraced and overcome.

Obedience out of love is joy.

People should take time to be happy.

Intelligence and capability are not enough. There must be the joy of doing something beautiful.

Whatever suffering there is in this world,all arises from desiring only myself to be happy.And whatever joy there is in this world,all arises from desiring to share my happiness with everyone.

O come all ye faithful, Joyful and triumphant, O come ye, O come ye to Bethlehem.

The craving for colour is a natural necessity just as for water and fire. Colour is a raw material indispensable to life. At every era of his existence and his history, the human being has associated colour with his joys, his actions and his pleasures.

It is enjoyable to make things visible which are invisible.

Restlessness and impatience change nothing except our peace and joy.