It's a dream come true, and with this music, with this Rossini, it's unbelievable how to express the joy and express the joy of the situation and the joy to play this music, to sing this music, it's really fantastic.
Happiness and joy are not the same. For what does the fervent craving for joy mean? It does not mean that we wish at any cost to experience the psychic state of being joyful. We want to have reason for joy, for an unceasing joy that fills us utterly,...
It wasn’t a normal joy, it was a bitter joy, but somehow the bitterness made the joy even more wonderful.
Music is such a joy, just an absolute joy.
As we learn to give thanks for all of life and death, for all of this given world of ours, we find a deep joy. It is the joy of trust, the joy of faith in the faithfulness at the heart of all things. It is the joy of gratefulness in touch with the fu...
Christians know that joy is more than a feeling or an on-again, off-again sentiment that changes according to the circumstances they face. Followers of Jesus Christ distinguish between lasting joy and situational happiness. Fun and joy are not necess...
No joy without wine.
This is the real power of joy, to make us certain that, beneath all grief, the most fundamental of realities is joy itself.
I see what the joy is; it is the joy of always loving, it is the joy of losing my own life in love to others.
A challenge to us is a great joy to us! If you see an open door, there is no challenge there and therefore there is no joy! A door must be closed so that we can obtain the joy of trying to open it!
[from trailer] Joy: I'm Joy, this is Sadness, that's Anger, this is Disgust. Disgust: Ugh... Joy: And that's Fear. Fear: Ahhh! Look out!
Real joy means immediate expansion. If we experience pure joy, immediately our heart expands. We feel that we are flying in the divine freedom-sky. The entire length and breadth of the world becomes ours, not for us to rule over, but as an expansion ...
1 John 1:4 "These things [are written] that your joy may be full." I can always measure the amount of time I'm spending in the Scriptures by how much joy (not superficial happiness, but deep down abiding joy) I have. When I find a lack of joy in my l...
One joy scatters a hundred griefs.
The body of joy is not so big.
The greatest joy of a Christian is to give joy to Christ.
Joy, joy, joy! Past ages crowd on thee, but each one remembers, And the future is dark, and the present is spread, Like a pillow of thorns for thy slumberless head.
The quality common to the three experiences... is that of an unsatisfied desire which is itself more desirable than any other satisfaction. I call it Joy, which is here a technical term and must be sharply distinguished both from Happiness and Pleasu...
Hidden joy is an extinguished candle.
A wise teacher makes learning a joy.
The less souls, the more joy.
