Quotes of: Joy Keyword

Swirl into joy today by sharing your caring with the world. Be a pillar of positivity.

Amy Leigh Mercree

Loving and parenting a dog as a single parent can create all sorts of new and unusual problems, but also new sources of joy.

Jenna Morasca

Keep burning the flame of discontent within you until you get the joy of satisfaction.

Love

I want to live in a society where people are intoxicated with the joy of making things

William Coperwaite

I wish you all the joy that you can wish.

William Shakespeare

Were kisses all the joys in bed,/One woman would another wed.

William Shakespeare

Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.

William Butler Yeats

Imagine a dolphin dancing in the sky. Let it dance with joy. Think of yourself at the bottom of the ocean watching.

Yoko Ono

When meeting difficult situations, one should dash forward bravely and with joy.

Yamamoto Tsunetomo

There's so much joy in doing comedy work, and that's one of the reasons I like to do it - because it's just a hilarious day at work.

John C. Reilly

The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.

Pearl S. Buck

I don't really have a career plan. There's no joy for me to just be a personality in my work, and I feel that that's so much of what's out there.

Tammy Blanchard

The pursuit of joy in God is not optional. It is not an “extra” that a person might grow into after he comes to faith. It is not simply a way to “enhance” your walk with the Lord. Until your heart has hit upon this pursuit, your “faith” c...

Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

I'm living at a peak of clarity and beauty I never knew existed. Every part of me is attuned to the work. I soak it up into my pores during the day, and at night—in the moments before I pass off into sleep—ideas explode into my head like firework...

Flowers for Algernon

Happiness celebrates how we feel, but we can rejoice over what we know is true regardless of feeling. Joy is the realization that we no longer have to live under our own power. The expression of thanks and the vocalization of delight and hope for a g...

The Fruitful Wife: Cultivating a Love Only God Can Produce

So much of life, it seems to me, is the framing and naming of things. I had been so busy creating a future of love that I never identified the life I was living as the life of love, because up until then I had never felt entitled enough or free enoug...

In the Body of the World

What I teach is a process of becoming a soulmaker. Soulmaking, as John Keats noted, is the work of creating our unique bliss. In this process, we liberate our creativity and our joy, our power and our purpose. We become imaginatively rich and spiritu...

Awaken Your Genius: A Seven-Step Path to Freeing Your Creativity and Manifesting Your Dreams

But is work something we have a right to escape? And can we escape it with impunity? We are probably the first entire people ever to think so. All the ancient wisdom that has come down to us counsels otherwise. It tells us that work is necessary to u...

The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays

I've an insatiable craving inside me that consumes everything and makes me regard the sufferings and joys of others only in their relationship to me, as food to sustain my spiritual powers. I am no longer capable of loosing my head in love, Ambition ...

A Hero of Our Time

When enforcing our boundaries, first and foremost, we are caring for ourselves, but we are also helping others to have a clear understanding of what we consider acceptable behavior. We are reflecting back to them what is not acceptable and, therefore...

The Inspired Caregiver: Finding Joy While Caring for Those You Love

Sound has a profound effect on the senses. It can be both herd and felt. It can even be seen with the mind’s eye. It can almost be tasted and smelled. Sound can evoke responses of the five senses. Sound can paint a picture, produce a mood, trigger ...

The Joy of Phonetics and Accents