The best definition I have ever heard of a vocation is that it's the place where your great joy meets the world's… — Eric Greitens Copy Share Image
It was a great joy for me to develop a strong female character in the spirit of an Icelandic woman. Icelandic women… — Anita Briem Copy Share Image
You took me to adventure and to love. We two have shared great joy and great sorrow. And now I stand at… — Pam Brown Copy Share Image
I'm an older, wall-eyed, overweight, tweedy writer who has been lucky enough to be asked to play various iterations of himself in… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
Carving is a source of joy to the artist. . . . To attack the raw material, gradually to extract a shape… — Aristide Maillol Copy Share Image
I love the shared experience of watching a movie with my kids. One of the great joys in life is when we're… — Rob Letterman Copy Share Image
Singing is my passion, my first love and the secret of my energy. Music to me is like finding my inner self,… — Kailash Kher Copy Share Image
“With old and young great sorrow is followed by a sleepless night, and with the old great joy is as disturbing; but… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Blow, bugles of battle, the marches of peace; East, west, north, and south let the long quarrel cease; Sing the song of… — John Greenleaf Whittier Copy Share Image
People live for love. They kill for love. They die for love. They have songs, poems, novels, sculptures, paintings, myths, legends. It's… — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
All of you knowing now, Tthat the Buddhas, the Teachers of the Ages, In accord with what is peculiarly appropriate, have recourse… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Music is one of those things that brings great joy to people, singing is a sort of unifier of people, no matter… — Brian Viglione Copy Share Image
Love lent me wings; my path was like a stair; A lamp unto my feet, that sun was given; And death was… — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
Mine is a quiet exploration—a quest for new meanings in color, texture and design. Even though I sometimes portray scenes of poor… — Lois Mailou Jones Copy Share Image
My mother was someone that walked into a room and lit it up. She made friends easily and she communicated her enthusiasms… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
To me, the great joy of writing is discovering. Most writers are told to write about what they know, but I still… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
That is the great joy: to go to work with people that you love, whether they be people that you are in… — Julia Roberts Copy Share Image
Christianity did not come with tidings of great joy, but with a message of eternal grief. It came with the threat of… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
There is great joy in leading with authority, which is serving others by meeting their legitimate needs. — James Hunter Copy Share Image
Anyone who has discovered Christ must lead others to him. A great joy cannot be kept to oneself. It has to be… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Your life's work begins when your great joy meets the world's great hunger. — Kate Bornstein Copy Share Image
That we should feed and nourish our souls with high notions of GOD; which would yield us great joy in being devoted… — Brother Lawrence Copy Share Image
“There is only one good thing science ever discovered—a good thing, good tidings of great joy— that the world is round.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“God takes great joy in the passionate romantic love between a husband and wife.” — Jim George Copy Share Image
The essential difference between the unhappy, neurotic type person and him of great joy is the difference between get and give. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
When it is going well, it is the best job [writing] in the world. For those few hours, you are god, in… — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
Theres always an anxiety about playing literary characters because one of the great joys of reading books is that you can create… — Stephen Mangan Copy Share Image
Live your life as though there is great joy to be experienced... an abundance of goodness in each person you come in… — Meladee McCarty Copy Share Image
A man who doesn't detest a bad government is a fool. And if there were such a thing as a good government… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
It's my chance to challenge myself to the fullest, which is one of the great joys about my job... I love it… — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image
The spectrum that most people exist in this world is very mundane and very unhappy. Certainly human beings are capable of experiencing… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“If a man and a woman marry in order to be companions on the journey from earth to heaven, then their union… — John Chrysostom Copy Share Image