Joy Quotes - Page 50

Sadness comes, joy comes, and everything passes by. What remains always is the witness. The witness is beyond all polarities.

Then the song of a whitethroat, pure and ethereal, with the dreamy quality of remembered joy.

The soul enjoys silence and peace, not by many reasonings, but by simply contemplating the truth.

Joy, once lost, is pain

The SF [Supreme Fascist, i.e. God] created us to enjoy our suffering. The sooner we die, the sooner we defy His plans.

I'm not basically a happy person, but I have all kinds of joy.

Joy and truth both have a way of peeking through any dark curtain.

I'm not a runner, and I always dreamed about just throwing on my sneakers and really knocking everyone's socks off with my joy of traversing the world by foot.

I feel a sense of sadness and joy. Mostly sadness though about what I've experienced and sadness about what others have experienced in reference to the stroke.

I think how the world is still somehow beautiful even when I feel no joy at being alive within it.

I want to get just as many people ready for Heaven as I can. Hell is a place where there is 'weeping and gnashing of teeth'; Heaven is a place of joy, happiness and no tears . . . Being a soul winner is greater than being a preacher or a great doctor or a great dentist or a great businessman. Let's get people ready for Heaven.

Teaching children the joy of honest labor is one of the greatest of all gifts you can bestow upon them.

Gluttony and idleness are two of life's great joys, but they are not honourable.

The truth is that life is hard and dangerous; that he who seeks his own happiness does not find it; that he who is weak must suffer; that he who demands love will be disappointed; that he who is greedy will not be fed; that he who seeks peace will find strife; that truth is only for the brave; that joy is only for him who does not fear to be alone; that life is only for the one who is not afraid to die.

Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all - that has been my religion.

The joy of the young is to disobey

To to change misery, disease and failure into joy, health, success and prosperity, I must think, speak and act, in ways which are the exact reverse of how most people think, speak and act.

I'm delirious with joy. It proves that if you confront the universe with good intentions in your heart, it will reflect that and reward your intent. Usually. It just doesn't always do it in the way you expect.

Would that God would make hell so real to us that we cannot rest; heaven so real that we must have men there, Christ so real that our supreme motive and aim shall be to make the Man of Sorrows the Man of Joy by the conversion to him of many.

The melancholy joys of evils pass'd, For he who much has suffer'd, much will know.

Carrying a grudge is a heavy burden. As you forgive, you will feel the joy of being forgiven.

As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.

The bringers of joy have always been the children of sorrow.

There is in writing the constant joy of sudden discovery, of happy accident.

Burnout is grist to the mill. I write every day, for most of the day, so it's just about turning into metaphor whatever's going on in my life, in the world, and in my head. Every nightmare, every moment of grief or joy or failure, is a moment I can convert into cash via words.