‘Green Garden’ is about beauty and joy and lush green and dance and excitement and smiling from within.
I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.
It’s a very nice thing to be able to give joy to people.
I guess I don’t think there’s any reason to feel guilty about having joy in your life, regardless of how bad things are in the world.
A lot of my joy this year has been to give away awards to young people, no matter of race, creed or color, because they were a terrific violinist or a terrific dancer.
I believe enlightenment or revelation comes in daily life. I look for joy, the peace of action. You need action. I’d have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.
We humans absorb a lot of negativity in this world, but dogs are pure joy.
It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion; it is a joy of every moment.
You live your life day by day and find ways to get through it. You grow up through things that are challenging and you find the joy. You realize there are so many people that have it much worse and remind yourself. I have been very blessed.
Northern Sweden holds a special kind of magic. It’s cold, lonely, and the people are tough and silent, or so the stereotype says. This is Asa Larsson’s home turf and I find as much joy in reading her closely observed descriptions of the environment, as in following her intriguing plots.
It was morning; through the high window I saw the pure, bright blue of the sky as it hovered cheerfully over the long roofs of the neighboring houses. It too seemed full of joy, as if it had special plans, and had put on its finest clothes for the occasion.
Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.
Joy doesn’t betray but sustains activism. And when you face a politics that aspires to make you fearful, alienated and isolated, joy is a fine initial act of insurrection.
I’ve always said you have to go through a lot of heartache in life to feel joy.
I discovered that joy is not the negation of pain, but rather acknowledging the presence of pain and feeling happiness in spite of it.
It’s like, if I had the luxury of choice, and didn’t have to worry about making a living, I would definitely want to get into whatever field it was that allowed me to push further and further comedically. Because that’s the joy of it.
I am a writer. I suppose I think that the highest gift that man has is art, and I am audacious enough to think of myself as an artist – that there is both joy and beauty and illumination and communion between people to be achieved through the dissection of personality.
The most astonishing joy is to receive from the muses the gift of a whole lyric.
Joy is not in things; it is in us.
The conscience of an artist worthy of the name is like an incurable disease which causes him endless torment but occasionally fills him with silent joy.
Animals feel pain and love and joy, just as humans. But in the industrialised meat, dairy, and egg industries, animals are denied everything that’s natural and important to them. Some of them don’t even feel the fresh air. They don’t see the light.
My beautiful wife is dead. She meant everything to me. Her laughter, her tears and her joy will remain with me the rest of my life.
Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past.
Nobody understands another’s sorrow, and nobody another’s joy.
Let me tell you, when you’re pregnant with the first one, it’s great of course, all new and ‘Yay!’ With the second one it’s still okay; you can pay attention to number one and she can share in the joy of the pregnancy.
A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty.
Now, when I hear that Christians are getting together in order to defend the people of Israel, of course it brings joy to my heart. And it simply says, look, people have learned from history.
Surely no child should fear his own father – especially a priesthood father. A father’s duty is to make his home a place of happiness and joy.
There is that awful moment when you realize that you’re falling in love. That should be the most joyful moment, and actually it’s not. It’s always a moment that’s full of fear because you know, as night follows day, the joy is going to rapidly be followed by some pain or other. All the angst of a relationship.
A people whose souls are so little tuned to joy.
Then there is a still higher type of courage – the courage to brave pain, to live with it, to never let others know of it and to still find joy in life; to wake up in the morning with an enthusiasm for the day ahead.
From a neighbour, I got a one-day-old duckling and found, to my intense joy, that it transferred its following response to my person. At the same time, my interest became irreversibly fixated on water fowl, and I became an expert on their behaviour even as a child.
Our Heavenly Father loves you. He has created you to be successful and to have joy.
Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.
People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.
Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.
So much of motion, is so much of life, and so much of joy, and to stand still, or get on but slowly, is death and the devil.
If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.
The garden of love is green without limit and yields many fruits other than sorrow or joy. Love is beyond either condition: without spring, without autumn, it is always fresh.
Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
Christmas is the spirit of giving without a thought of getting. It is happiness because we see joy in people. It is forgetting self and finding time for others. It is discarding the meaningless and stressing the true values.
Our goal should be to achieve joy.
Gratitude changes the pangs of memory into a tranquil joy.
It is great seeing the fruits of your labor. The joy I have in watching my daughters with their kids is great, because they’re doing a wonderful job, and the kids are fantastic.
I can’t imagine anyone approaching art without the joy of experimentation. The joy of it is inherent… and that is how you flow with the reality of change.
When people were selling the politics of fear and division and destruction, we were talking about hope. We were talking about the politics of joy.
The loneliest, most down-on-his-luck person can have a dog who adores him. The most bitter, sour person can light up with joy when he sees his dog. It is magical, and as ‘The Dog Master’ reveals, it is biological – we evolved together.
Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
Our people know that if they are sick, we will take care of them. If there are occasions of grief or joy, we will be there with them. They know that we value them as people, not just cogs in a machine.
Children love and want to be loved and they very much prefer the joy of accomplishment to the triumph of hateful failure. Do not mistake a child for his symptom.
I was a good sight reader and I could sing two or three of these jingles a day. An orchestra would come in for half an hour, and then the singers would come in and knock ’em out, and go on to the next one. I was the voice of Budweiser and Almond Joy.
The people of Southwest have always been my pride, my joy and my love. Their indomitable dedication and esprit de corps have taken Southwest from a three-airplane dream to a 500-airplane reality.
We try to connect with the audience as much as we can. We feel the energy from the audience, and it gives us so much joy and inspiration.
I think that peace is, in many ways, a precondition of joy.
There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.
Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.
A ship’s engine far away on the water expands the summer-night horizon. Both joy and sorrow swell in the dew’s magnifying glass. Without really knowing, we divine; our life has a sister ship, following quietly another route. While the sun blazes behind the islands.
Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible – it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.
I’m real excited. I’m so blessed to have so much peace and joy inside. I just can’t keep quiet about it.
The fun thing about Snapchat is really the surprise and the joy that comes from learning how to use it.
Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.
I just show up and try to find the joy in every situation.
I’ve never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It’s probably because they have forgotten their own.
It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us; in joy we face the storm and defy it.
