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Lethe, the river of oblivion, rolls his watery labyrinth, which whoso drinks forgets both joy and grief.
With so many thousand joys, is it not black ingratitude to call the world a place of sorrow and torment?
Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.
Joy is a quiet gladness of heart as one contemplates the goodness of God's saving grace in Christ Jesus.
The joy is when you work with great actors, it just comes to life in a way that you never even imagined.
What is joy? It is a bird That we all want to catch. It is the same bird That we all love to see flying.
I have learned that grief is a vital part of my heart and accept it as a gift that exists alongside joy.
I love performing so much! The joy is to have the opportunity to be able to perform all around the world.
What I've realized is that the joy of meeting and greeting people from all around the world is universal.
If only everyone could experience the joy of being Christian, being loved by God Who gave His Son for us!
We make a god out of whatever we find most joy in. So find your joy in God and be done with all idolatry.
Getting that first draft out is a horribly hard grind, but that (perversely) is where the joy of it lies.
I had so much joy as a boy: middle child, lots of energy, big emotional life. I was a clown and still am.
An old man was asked what had robbed him of joy in his life. His reply was, "Things that never happened."
Dad was joyful until the day he died, and I think that joy was deeply rooted in his love affair with God.
I'm always just looking to get back to the joy of playing music, and keeping it simple, as much as I can.
Joy is a condition that is experienced, but it is more than a feeling; it is, primarily, a state of mind.
The warmest place I've ever been is my home here in Chapel Hill. It's an oasis of comfort and joy for me.
We are not sure of sorrow, And joy was never sure; Today will die tomorrow; Time stoops to no man's lure.
Love's pure free joy when it works, but when it goes bad you pay for the good hours at loan-shark prices.
Everything comes out in blues music: joy , pain , struggle . Blues is affirmation with absolute elegance.
We need more kindness, more compassion, more joy, more laughter. I definitely want to contribute to that.
Not when the sense is dim, But now from the heart of joy, I would remember Him: Take the thanks of a boy.
We pick our own sorrows out of the joys of other men, and from their sorrows likewise we derive our joys.
Do what you love. Do what makes your heart sing. And NEVER do it for the money, Go to work to spread joy.
The greatest joy of a thinking man is to have searched the explored and to quietly revere the unexplored.
Grace creates liberated laughter. The grace of God...is beautiful, and it radiates joy and awakens humor.
Life is art. Art is life. I never separate it. I don’t feel that much anger. I equally have a lot of joy.
Respect was mingled with surprise, And the stern joy which warriors feel In foemen worthy of their steel.
Those who prepared for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themselves at the expense of joy.
Life is to be enjoyed, not simply endured. Pleasure and goodness and joy support the pursuit of survival.
All the sorrow, all the bitterness, all the sadness, I forget them and ignore them in the joy of working.
Empowerment is the inner joy of knowing that external force isn't necessary to be at harmony with oneself.
Happiness is like rising bubbles -- delightful and inevitably fleeting. Joy is the oxygen -- ever present.
Success is clarity of my intention....and reaching that intention while being true to myself and with joy.
There's no getting around it: Writing is hard, while working with young performers is nearly always a joy.
If pizza brings you joy, then by all means, love that pizza like your life depends on it. Because it does.
Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.
Agency used righteously allows light to dispel the darkness and enables us to live with joy and happiness.
It sounds so stupid, so basic, but when you are really in a grateful state, you are like a magnet for joy.
Before the reward there must be labor. You plant before you harvest. You sow in tears before you reap joy.
When the Christian doesn't find joy on account of his happenings, he can always find joy in spite of them.
The criterion for what is good is based on whether it relieves someone, brings joy, or soothes a distress.
Endure pain, find joy, and make your own meaning, because the universe certainly isn't going to supply it.
Love is the hastening gravitation of spirit towards spirit, and body towards body, in the joy of creation.
The joy which is caused by truth and noble thoughts shows itself in the words by which they are expressed.
Genius, apart from natural sensitiveness, is prone equally to unreasoning joy and to bitterest morbidness.
The worship of Christ is our joy and privilege today. And tomorrow, and next Sunday, and for all eternity.
The poor are the human manure in which grow the harvests of life, the harvests of joy which the rich reap.
I thought of the analyst Winnicott's observation: 'It is a joy to be hidden but disaster not to be found'.