Joy Quotes - Page 95

hen we mourn those who die young — those who have been robbed of time — we weep for lost joys. We weep for opportunities and pleasures we ourselves have never known. We feel sure that somehow that young body would have known the yearning delight for which we searched in vain all our lives.

God is within you. You yourself are your creator. If you find that place in yourself from which you brought this thing about, you will be able to live with it and affirm it, perhaps even enjoy it, as your life.

I really, really enjoy music and that's why I do what I do.

In all the setbacks of your life as a believer, God is plotting for your joy.

Faith is born and sustained by the Word of God, and out of faith grows the flower of joy.

Ironically, often the thing that keeps me from experiencing joy is my preoccupation with self. The very selfishness that keeps me from pouring myself out for the joy of others also keeps me from noticing and delighting in the myriad small gifts God offers each day. This is why Walker Percy describes boredom as "the self stuffed with the self."

Farewell happy fields, Where joy forever dwells: Hail, horrors, hail.

Hope elevates, and joy Brightens his crest.

It's almost worth having been in the army for the joy your freedom gives you

My purpose in performing is to communicate the joy I experience in living.

The joy is in the journey, not the destination. We have a better chance of seeing where we are when we stop trying to get somewhere else.

Like the Puritans, live in terms of the settled judgement that the joy of heaven will make amends of any losses and crosses, strains and pains that we must endure on earth if we are going to follow Christ faithfully. Regard preparedness to die as the first step in learning to live.

God must have something to do with joy ... and with sadness.

If there are occasions when my grape turned into a raisin and my joy bell lost its resonance, please forgive me. Charge it to my head and not to my heart.

There's a need for a ritual and for real joy and real bliss. Real fun.

Michael has a connection with children, just like Mickey Mouse does, and he brings happiness to them, and joy.

I'm enjoying simplifying things.

This is part of the involuntary bargain we make with the world just by being alive. We get to experiences the splendor of nature, the beauty of art, the balm of love and the sheer joy of existence, always with the knowledge that illness, injury, natural disaster, or pure evil can end it in an instant for ourselves or someone we love.

If you introduce yourself to anyone as Mrs. Dracula, I'll bite you in a manner you won't enjoy.

I'm not complaining about doing 20-hour days. It's a joy to be able to work on yet another film.

Money without wisdom diminishes the pleasure and enjoyment of wealth.

Great work comes from great joy. Leave the angst for the movies; do art - that is fun.

Dean and I both swayed to the rhythm and the IT of our final excited joy in talking and living to the blank traced end of all innumerable riotous angelic particulars that had been lurking in our souls all our lives.

Keep it kickwriting at all costs too, that is, write only what kicks you and keeps you overtime awake from sheer mad joy.

I think I am a travel junkie and I have never enjoyed anything else in my life more than travelling and going to places.