Joy Quotes - Page 46

It is of the small joys and little pleasures that the greatest of our days are built.

Indeed, the opposite of joy is not sorrow. The opposite of joy is unbelief.

And maybe that was how it was supposed to be...Joy and sadness were part of the package; the trick, perhaps,was to let yourself feel all of it, but to hold on to the joy just a little more tightly.

Without the threat of punishment, there is no joy in flight.

I've enjoyed being a famous writer-except that every once in a while you have to write something.

I am not working to earn a living, but I am living movies. I am finding me enjoying the process.

The pleasure of jogging and running is rather like that of wearing a fur coat in Texas in August: the true joy comes in being able to take the damn thing off.

Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.

The very best thing that could happen to a voice, if it shows any promise at all, is when it is very young to leave it alone and to let it develop quite naturally, and to let the person go on as long as possible with the sheer joy of singing.

In our business, just getting to 40 means something...that's why I think sometimes you have to just live in the moment. You have to enjoy life to its fullest.

Pay attention to how you are feeling, and keep your compass heading set for JOY!

Joy is a condition that is experienced, but it is more than a feeling; it is, primarily, a state of mind.

Musical composition should bring happiness and joy to people and make them forget their troubles.

Joy is the experience of knowing that you are unconditionally loved.

Joy is a spiritual element that gives vicissitudes unity and significance.

I want to be the joy to people through my work.

If you patiently accept what comes, you will always pray with joy.

One should be either sad or joyful. Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers.

Real learning, attentive, real learning, deep learning, is playful and frustrating and joyful and discouraging and exciting and sociable and private all the time, which is what makes it great.

The summit is believed to be the object of the climb. But its true object--the joy of living--is not in the peak itself, but in the adversities encountered on the way up.

When you say, 'I enjoy doing this or that', it is really a misperception. It makes it appear that the joy comes from what you do, but that is not the case. Joy does not come from what you do, it flows into what you do and thus into this world from deep within you.

When you know who you truly are, there is an abiding alive sense of peace. You could call it joy because that's what joy is: vibrantly alive peace. It is the joy of knowing yourself as the very life essence before life takes on form. That is the joy of Being - of being who you truly are.

Work, look for peace and calm in work: You will find it nowhere else. Pleasures flit by -- they are only for yourself; work leaves a mark of long-lasting joy, work is for others.

Joyful, all ye nations, rise. Join the triumph of the skies. With angelic hosts proclaim "Christ is born in Bethlehem!

I don't enjoy. I suffer from enjoying. It's very Christian.