Joy Quotes - Page 81

The real thing is that sweet joy you feel when you're in the midst of it.

I want to do stuff that excites me and is enjoyable.

Did any artist ever bring more pure joy to more people than Fred Astaire?

Anything that's motivated from fear will ultimately take you down the wrong road and lead you in a cul de sac, anything motivated from purpose, from joy, and from love will take you on an evolutionary path to greater and greater happiness.

Oh, gentle feelings, soft sounds, the goodness and the gradual stilling of a soul that has been moved; the melting happiness of the first tender, touching joys of love- where are you?

I work grief and sadness out of my body when I dance, and I bring in joy and rhythm.

Self-consciousness is the destroyer of erotic joy.

Happiness comes, I know, from some spring within a man — from some curious adjustment to life.

You only go from nowhere to everywhere once. Let's enjoy it!

Nature is a vast repository of manly enjoyments.

Profit is a by-product of work; happiness is its chief product.

Joy is hidden in sorrow and sorrow in joy. If we try to avoid sorrow at all costs, we may never taste joy, and if we are suspicious of ecstasy, agony can never reach us either. Joy and sorrow are the parents of our spiritual growth.

We'll always be disappointed if we believe that we can plan for a peak experience and make it happen. True joy can't be anticipated or planned. It just strikes.

Who would enjoy a life of no runs, no hits, no errors?

The gloom of the world is but a shadow. Behind it, yet within our reach is joy. There is radiance and glory in the darkness could we but see - and to see we have only to look.

Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses

Macrobiotic living is the process of changing ourselves so that we can eat anything we like without fear of becoming ill; it enables us to live a joyful life during which we can achieve anything we choose.

Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement; and if a story is told of more than common interest, ennui is sure to have its joy in adding embellishments. If hours did not hang heavy, what would become of scandal?

You don't need a scale to tell you whether you're allowed to like yourself today. You are. You belong here. No matter what you weigh, you deserve joy and happiness.

Dignity and quiet joy in all that we do are the expression of perfect concentration and perfect wisdom.

The mother of excess is not joy but joylessness.

... freshness trembles beneath the surface of Everyday, a joy perpetual to all who catch its opal lights beneath the dust of habit.

Being a good steward of your pain. . . . It involves being alive to your life. It involves taking the risk of being open, of reaching out, of keeping in touch with the pain as well as the joy of what happens because at no time more than at a painful time do we live out of the depths of who we are instead of out of the shallows.

Do not let the word tripe deter you. Let its soothing charms win you over, and enjoy it as do those who always have!

God loves us; the devil hates us. God wants us to have a fulness of joy as He has. The devil wants us to be miserable as he is. God gives us commandments to bless us. The devil would have us break these commandments to curse us.