Joy Quotes - Page 43

For every negative that is a disappointment, there is one that is a joy.

It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.

There is indescribable joy, deep satisfaction and an eternal purpose in dying to ourselves and living for Christ.

As a musician, I hear the harmonic value of everything - I just enjoy music.

Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment. To such an extent indeed that one day, finding myself at the deathbed of a woman who had been and still was very dear to me, I caught myself in the act of focusing on her temples and automatically analyzing the succession of appropriately graded colors which death was imposing on her motionless face.

The habit of always putting off an experience until you can afford it, or until the time is right, or until you know how to do it is one of the greatest burglars of joy. Be deliberate, but once you've made up your mind -jump in.

For me, I took the exact right path. The cranky, independent one. And I've never looked back on it with anything but joy.

I find my joy of living in the fierce and ruthless battles of life, and my pleasure comes from learning something.

All of us have had the experience of a sudden joy that came when nothing in the world had forewarned us of its coming - a joy so thrilling that if it was born of misery we remembered even the misery with tenderness.

It's just cool to be involved in something that's that big and joyous and meant to make people feel happy.

Helped are those who are content to be themselves; they will never lack mystery in their lives and the joys of self-discovery will be constant.

Simply be who you are, do what you do best, be where you are called by joy, and let life work its magic on your behalf.

I have finally become a husband and I am genuinely enjoying every moment of it.

To me, the message of my songs, of all songs, is "enjoy life." My message as a person who evidently doens't have much more planned is the same. It's the only message I ever thought art had any business having.

I live right in the middle of nowhere and I thoroughly enjoy it.

I've never really taken anything very seriously. I enjoy life because I enjoy making other people enjoy it.

Anger kills both laughter and joy; What greater foe is there than anger?

You can't be perfect, so enjoy your imperfections.

Every morning when I wake up, I experience an exquisite joy - the joy of being Salvador Dalí - and I ask myself in rapture: What wonderful things this Salvador Dalí is going to accomplish today?

And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, till the Devil whispered behind the leaves 'It's pretty, but is it Art?'

It was joy, joy, happy joy. Happy, happy joy. A big fat smiley sun rose above the rooftops and beamed down its blessings onto the borough known as Brentford.

The profession of shaman has many advantages. It offers high status with a safe livelihood free of work in the dreary, sweaty sense. In most societies it offers legal privileges and immunities not granted to other men. But it is hard to see how a man who has been given a mandate from on High to spread tidings of joy to all mankind can be seriously interested in taking up a collection to pay his salary; it causes one to suspect that the shaman is on the moral level of any other con man. But it is a lovely work if you can stomach it.

I'm one of the most joyous people I've ever met.

We are all sinners. But may the Lord not let us be hypocrites. Hypocrites don’t know the meaning of forgiveness, joy and the love of God.

Truly embracing the fragility and tensions of life...brings with it the possibility of true joy.