Joy Quotes · Page 259

Where love exists with self-respect and joy, where a fine environment is provided for the child, where the parents live under conditions…

— Walter Lippmann

Without using the word, everyone started forgiving each other again. Just like that, from the no of all nothingness: you have a…

— Anne Lamott

The charitable say in effect, 'I seem to have more than I need and you seem to have less than you need.…

— Maya Angelou

“Out of joy strength came, strength that was fashioned to bear sorrow: sorrow brought forth joy. Forever? This was Ezekiel's wheel, in…

— James Baldwin

Women all live a double standard, but this is actually sort of a beautifully grotesque parody of it. There's a weird kind…

— Joss Whedon

“Healing is the way of the heart. This book is an invitation to open our heart. Healing is a love affair with…

— Swami Dhyan Giten

“What if pleasure and displeasure were so tied together that whoever wanted to have as much as possible of one must also…

— Nietzsche

When my son was just a kid, I remember him going for a running race at school and winning and coming to…

— Alex Zanardi

“The Grhasta blessed if house a bliss, wife speaks sweetly, If wealth satisfies desire, sons able, enjoys wife’s company; If servants obedient,…

— Munindra Misra

There are two ways to look at life and the world. We can see the good or the bad, the beautiful or…

— Lloyd D. Newell

The writing is what gives me the joy, especially editing myself for the page, and getting something ready to show to the…

— George Carlin

“We don’t like death. We’d rather produce seeds another way. But death to ourselves, our agendas, our expectations, our hopes is necessary…

— Mary E. DeMuth

Our sages developed music from time immemorial to take shelter in one's true self. Real music is not for wealth, not for…

— Ali Akbar Khan

I've watched you now a full half-hour; Self-poised upon that yellow flower And, little Butterfly! Indeed I know not if you sleep…

— William Wordsworth

I finally made friends with my father when I entered my twenties. We had so little in common when I was a…

— Neil Gaiman

“Do what makes YOU happy. Focus on what brings YOU joy. Appreciate and do more things that make YOU smile. Live your…

— Stephanie Lahart

All creativity is a deep suffering, unless your creativity does not come out of the mind, but out of meditation. When it…

— Rajneesh

Whether one is rich or poor, educated or illiterate, religious or nonbelieving, man or woman, black, white, or brown, we are all…

— Anonymous

“Every torment they had experienced was returned to them an intoxication. It seemed to them that the griefs , the sleeplessness, the…

— Victor Hugo

“The restoration of joy is a daily matter. We live in a world that wants to kill our joy! It wants to…

— Gary Rohrmayer

I look upon the pleasure which we take in a garden as one of the most innocent delights in human life. .…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Most people fill their schedules with work, and leisure only happens when there's time left over. But it's impossible to live a…

— Amy Morin

“You will never overcome your self righteousness if you continue to believe that God prefers you over other people. The moment you…

— Shannon L. Alder

“Blessed is the one           who does not walk in step with the wicked        or stand in the way that sinners take           or…

— Anonymous

There is no other labor in all the world that brings to a human heart, judging from my own personal experience, more…

— Heber J. Grant

“Enjoyment is the first sign of a great talent, my dear! ... Take it from me. I'm a writer! I know the…

— Jessica Glasner

While alcohol ... continues to wreak havoc in America, supported by a $6 billion-a-year alcohol industry advertising campaign extolling the joy of…

— Lawrence O'Donnell

I believe God, through His Spirit, grants us love, joy, and peace no matter what is happening in our lives. As Christians,…

— Jill Briscoe

I, have always been, shall always be, Love, Passion, Romance, Joy; made flesh. A living, breathing, daring, aspect of the sacred, the…

— Eric Nickel

Even the smallest landscape can offer pride of ownership not only to its inhabitants but to its neighbors. The world delights in…

— Julie Moir Messervy

True inner joy is self-created It does not rely on any outer circumstances A river is flowing in and through you carrying…

— Sri Chinmoy

“Aloha is compassion, love, light, harmony, peace and joy, all rolled into one. Aloha is choosing love in every moment, showing up…

— Mark Ellman

The light of the Christmas star to you. The warmth of home and hearth to you. The cheer and goodwill of friends…

— Sherryl Woods

Man's highest joy is in victory: to conquer one's enemies; to pursue them; to deprive them of their possessions; to make their…

— Genghis Khan

A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts the lover afore words are uttered, and the…

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

History is basically really looking back and finding out what happened to an individual, a community, a family, a group in a…

— Tamlyn Tomita

Success is ninety-nine percent mental attitude. It calls for love, joy, optimism, confidence, serenity, poise, faith, courage, cheerfulness, imagination, initiative, tolerance, honesty,…

— Wilferd Peterson

Don't underestimate the therapeutic value of gardening. It's the one area where we can all use our nascent creative talents to make…

— Geoff Hamilton

I spent a lot of years trying to outrun or outsmart vulnerability by making things certain and definite, black and white, good…

— Brené Brown

“Writers should find out where joy resides and give it a voice. Every bright word or picture is a piece of pleasure…

— Nancy Horan