Joy Quotes - Page 80

I was raised Catholic in the Midwest, so I cant enjoy anything.

In fact, isn't it a joy - there is hardly a greater one - to find a new book, a living book, and to know that it will remain with you while life lasts?

Many roads to take some to joy some to heart ache

I love being a part of something so many people can relate to and enjoy.

I have always enjoyed being a part of his life. I've always loved him, and he's always loved me.

Art is the only thing that helps people stay alive, and it is the only thing that has allowed people to create joy in this insane, suppressive universe. And art is the only thing that they can't get rid of. They've tried, but ultimately they can't stamp it out.

If you are lucky, you have your moment. But it is never more than a moment. You have to enjoy it while it lasts.

Something that's such a joy in my life every day - cooking - is this incredible, horrific danger to women around the world.

Being alone in nature is another way to feel the joy of beauty - and oneness with a greater whole.

Sometimes I just sit still and enjoy God's presence.

If you are a believer married to an unbeliever I want to tell you that the greatest witness that you can be to them is to try to be the same all the time. Don't let the way they act control you. Dave didn't let my actions control him. He stayed happy, and that just made me madder, because unhappy people just want to make other people unhappy, but it finally broke through to me that he's got a stability and a joy and a peace that I did not have.

If you want to have sustained joy, you have to not only make sure that you think right, but you also have to make decisions now that are going to guarantee some joy in the future.

I paint my joy and I sing my sorrow.

We learn in our guts, not just in our brain, that a life of joy is not in seeking happiness, but in experiencing and simply being the circumstances of our life as they are; not in fulfilling personal wants, but in fulfilling the needs of life.

When you compare music, you lose the joy of listening to it.

Maintaining joy in God takes 'work'; that is, it's a fight against every impulse for alien joys and every obstacle in the way to seeing and savoring Christ.

Do you feel loved by God because you believe he makes much of you, or because you believe he frees you and empowers you to enjoy making much of him?

Love is the overflow of joy in God that meets the needs of others.

In a dog's life, some plaster would fall, some cushions would open, some rugs would shred. Like any relationship, this one had its costs. They were costs we came to accept and balance against the joy and amusement and protection and companionship he gave us.

May all of our relationships be gateways to sharing in the highest love and sweetest joys, and to awakening to our full potential.

If I dream I have you, I have you, for all our joys are but fantastical.

Long ago I lost the joy in living. The only joy I have is in my giving.

Life is a thing of many stages and moving parts. What we do with ease at one time of life we can hardly manage at another. What we could not fathom doing when we were young, we find great joy in when we are old. Like the seasons through which we move, life itself is a never-ending series of harvests, a different fruit for every time.

The anticipation of discovering new possibilities becomes my greatest joy.

Philanthropy is the rent we pay for the joy and privilege we have for our space on this earth.