Joy Quotes · Page 316

“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

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

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Jill Briscoe

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

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

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

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

— Eric Nickel

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

— Alex Zanardi

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

— Nietzsche

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

“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

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

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

“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

“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

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

— George Carlin

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

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

— Neil Gaiman

“The Lord of gladness delights in the laughter of a merry heart. These wedding guests could have done without wine, surely without…

— George MacDonald

If we are to understand the human condition, and if we are to accept ourselves in all the complexity, self-doubt, extravagance of…

— May Sarton

In college, I was a painter, and I had a strong interest in fashion. I just like this concept of being able…

— Melody Gardot

“Dread was always with her, an alarm system in her head, alert to her next disaster. Despite being resigned to a life…

— G.G. Renee Hill

As in all sweetest music, a tinge of sadness was in every note. Nor do we know how much of the pleasures…

— George MacDonald

The purest joy in the world is joy in Christ Jesus. When the Spirit is poured down, his people get very near…

— Robert Murray M'Cheyne

“Your perception of a person, place, or thing may not be accurate. Just because it looks good does not mean it is…

— Amaka Imani Nkosazana

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

— Maya Angelou

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

— Anne Lamott

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

Out of the rhythm and sound of the sea that beat through the orchestra, something moved--pressing toward death with quiet insistent joy--the…

— Jeanette Lee

I made a tentative conclusion. It seemed from all of this that uppermost among human joys is the negative one of restoration:…

— Peter De Vries

“Joy of Conscience (The Sonnet) Conscience brings joy, Conscience brings relief. It's a different kind of joy, sanctified by bouts of grief.…

— Abhijit Naskar

People need to be fed, medicated, educated, clothed, and sheltered, and if we're compassionate we'll help them, but you get no moral…

— Penn Jillette

There are only two emotions: love and fear. All positive emotions come from love, all negative emotions from fear. From love flows…

— Anonymous

It is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth. The comic, when it is human, soon takes…

— Joseph Conrad

Start a new fashion, wear your heart on your sleeveSometimes you reach what's real just by making believeUnafraid, unashamedThere is joy to…

— Stephen Schwartz

I can't get used to the ease with which one covers the world today. It's no longer an effort--Pole--equator--oceans--continents--it's just a question…

— Charles Lindbergh