The joy of motherhood: what a mother experiences when all her children are in bed

We have become accustomed to living our life with joy amidst pain and challenges.

There is no pleasure pure and simple, and some care always comes to mar our joys.

It's such a joy to be able to play someone who is angry. It's a joy and a relief.

Peace of mind, joy and happiness cannot be purchased with money or worldly goods.

When I don't plumb the depths or the opportunities of each day, I don't have joy.

Joy is a marvelous increasing of what exists, a pure addition out of nothingness.

The rose and thorn, the treasure and dragon, joy and sorrow, all mingle into one.

For malice will with joy the lie receive, Report, and what it wishes true believe.

This is truly marvelous work full of mystery, nostalgia, joy, The Color of Whimsy.

Your vocation lies in the intersection of the world's deep need and your deep joy.

I think there's a real joy in going to see movies when you discover them yourself.

We torment ourselves rather to make it appear that we are happy than to become so.

When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.

Don't postpone joy until you have learned all of your lessons. Joy is your lesson.

Joy is a decision, a really brave one, about how you are going to respond to life.

Those who do not know the torment of the unknown cannot have the joy of discovery.

The secret to life is finding joy in ordinary things. I'm interested in happiness.

How do we cultivate the conditions for joy to expand? We train in staying present.

You carry all the ingredients to turn your existence into joy. Mix them, Mix them!

No matter how you look, we all hurt the same, cry the same, and feel joy the same.

I had that feeling of just pure joy and I went out there and put it in my program.

I now deserve love. romance, and joy - and all the good that Life has to offer me.

We take no pleasure in permitted joys, But what's forbidden is more keenly sought.

When the doctors came they said she had died of heart disease - of joy that kills.

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.

Joy acts like a trampoline, everything that touches it bouncing right back off it.

The joys of love...last only a moment. The sorrows of love last all the life long.

It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us; in joy we face the storm and defy it.

...[P]eople who shout joy from the rooftops are often the saddest of all... (p.24)

The sweetest pleasures soonest cloy, And its best flavour temperance gives to joy.

Think of things that can be created, not destroyed, and that bring beauty and joy.

Happiness is only the threshold to misery. When a friend refuses to share in joys.

To spread love, healing, peace, and joy is my mission in life - and so I speak up.

The melancholy joys of evils pass'd, For he who much has suffer'd, much will know.

O love, be moderate, allay thy ecstasy, In measure rain thy joy, scant this excess!

Joy is a big stress buster too. Measure your success by how much fun you're having.

Every day is a renewal, every morning the daily miracle. This joy you feel is life.

The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.

Dearest Daughter. I knew you would not be long in coming to me. Joy shall be yours.

I'm thankful I am able to continue to share the joy and the inspiration tap brings.

It is one of the great joys of home ownership to fire a pistol in one's own bedroom

If you have no joy in your religion, there's a leak in your Christianity somewhere.

We have a tendency to obscure the forest of simple joys with the trees of problems.

You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.

Joy, oh joy. He’d rather have his entrails pulled out through his nostrils.’ (Fang)

My goal is GOD HIMSELF. Not joy, not peace, not even blessing but HIMSELF...my GOD.

Drunk with the joy of singing I forget myself and call thee friend who art my lord.

The happiness and unhappiness of men depends as much on their ethics as on fortune.

If I have caused just one person to wipe away a tear of laughter, that's my reward.

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