Joy Quotes - Page 82

I look on life as a joyous adventure.

He who needs riches least, enjoys riches most.

Geometry is moribund. I want a lilt and joy to art.

I view it as one of the greatest crimes to shadow the minds of the young with these gloomy superstitions, and with fears of the unknown and the unknowable to poison all their joy in life.

Happiness is the moment when you cease to make an inventory of joys; it is a glow, a brightness - never a list.

Our deepest need is for the joy that comes with knowing we are of genuine use to others.

What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.

Those who fear death most are those who enjoy life least.

It's a joy to be recognized and to have people that are interested in what you do. That can pick up your whole day.

I like to dance and sing when there's no one around, but, if I'm out, I'm really shy about it. So it takes a lot to get me going, but I enjoy being around music.

Showing joy by jumping up and down and clapping goes away at some point between pre-school and being old enough to go to orgies.

If we can manage to refrain from harming others in our everyday actions and words, we can start to give more serious attention to actively doing good, and this can be a source of great joy and inner confidence. We can benefit others through our actions by being warm and generous toward them, by being charitable, and by helping those in need.

the grace is being able to like rock music, symphony music, jazz … anything that contains the original energy of joy.

It's such a joy to work with different ensembles and create a collaboration. Rehearsing and building a performance is very interesting for me.

If you are in business, you are not enjoying. You are working.

Throw yourself wholeheartedly into your work; the more you enjoy it, the better you get.

We strive to further the occurrence of whatever we imagine will lead to Joy, and to avert or destroy what we imagine is contrary to it, or will lead to Sadness.

Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies. Don't put off the joy derivable from doing helpful, kindly things for others.

The day you are happy for no reason whatsoever, the day you find yourself taking delight in everything and in nothing, you will know that you have found the land of unending joy called the kingdom.

Joy is the best makeup. But a little lipstick is a close runner-up.

Belong purportedly to certain groups say, "We are the people and not the others." That is something that we cannot allow to happen. That is something that I think at the time in the GDR - at the time when we had this in the GDR, where the people stood in the street and said, "We are the people," that is something that filled me with great joy.

True kindness presupposes the faculty of imagining as one's own the suffering and joys of others.

In the world of the dreamer there was solitude: all the exaltations and joys came in the moment of preparation for living. They took place in solitude. But with action came anxiety, and the sense of insuperable effort made to match the dream, and with it came weariness, discouragement, and the flight into solitude again. And then in solitude, in the opium den of remembrance, the possibility of pleasure again.

It is one of the great joys of home ownership to fire a pistol in one's own bedroom

I was assailed by memories of a life that wasn't mine anymore, but one in which I'd found the simplest and most lasting joys.