Joy Quotes - Page 135

Literature is both my joy and my comfort: it can add to every happiness and there is no sorrow it cannot console.

The moment my name was called [Africa's Footballer of the Year] was truly overwhelming and I was about to scream with joy.

I get my highs from using my eyes.

And these are joys, like beauty, but skin deep.

The dew, 'Tis of the tears which stars weep, sweet with joy.

At first, I thoroughly enjoyed being famous.

There hasn't been one show that we did, that I didn't enjoy to some extent.

Matisse can make you hate your life for its comparatively insipid joys.

Where do I begin? I loved working with Kate Hepburn, which was one of the highlights of my life; Working with Richard Burton in Beckett was another great joy.

The films that I really enjoy now are films that are made by, for wont of a better word, mavericks.

Positive thoughts: joy, happiness, fulfillment, achievement, worthiness, have positive results: enthusiasm, calm, well-being, ease, energy, love.

God alone has the secret of eternal life and joy.

During any dance to which we surrender with joy, the brain loses it's controlling power, and the heart takes up the reins of the body.

Don't expect your genius to be discovered; do what you must do because it gives you joy. Don't expect your love to be accepted. Love because it justifies your life.

You have a personal legend to fulfil, period. It is of no matter if others support you, or criticise you, ignore or tolerate you. You are doing that because that is your destiny on this earth, and the source of any joy.

It's always necessary to know when a stage of one's life has ended. If you stubbornly cling to it after the need has passed, you lose the joy and meaning of the rest. And you risk being shaken to your senses by God.

I enjoy being part of the entertainment industry, although I'm the laziest person that I've met yet in this business.

If biking is your passion, set aside time to enjoy a good ride.

Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.

Like pleasure, beauty should be savored and enjoyed

We pick our own sorrows out of the joys of other men, and from their sorrows likewise we derive our joys.

Discontents are sometimes the better part of our life. I know not well which is the most useful; joy I may choose for pleasure, but adversities are the best for profit; and sometimes those do so far help me, as I should, without them, want much of the joy I have.

What is the sign of a friend? Is it that he tells you his secret sorrows? No, it is that he tells you his secret joys. Many people will confide their secret sorrows to you, but the final mark of intimacy is when they share their secret joys with you.

Happiness depends on what happens; joy does not.

Behind Joy and Laughter there may be a temperament, coarse, hard and callous. But behind Sorrow there is always Sorrow. Pain, unlike Pleasure, wears no mask.