It is extraordinary to see how the discovery of one single free stroke of paint can fill you with such joy and amazement.

When our faith becomes nothing more than a series of rules and regulations, joy flees and our love for Christ grows cold.

I loved words. I love to sing them and speak them and even now, I must admit, I have fallen into the joy of writing them.

Our most natural state is joy. It is the foundation for love, compassion, healing, and the desire to alleviate suffering.

You can experience true delight on the Sabbath from family history work...Finding family members...can bring immense joy.

I feel a great sense of pride and joy knowing that I played a part in bringing into the world more beauty and excitement.

I guess I write four or five hours a day, but I do it seven days a week. It's very disciplined, yes, but it's joy for me.

These days cry out, as never before, for us to pay attention, so we can move through them and get our joy and pride back.

I like to smile. I try to bring happiness on and off the pitch. I don't understand how you can play football without joy.

A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon.

As anyone who's done any acting will tell you, if you haven't got a malicious evil streak, it's such a joy to let one out.

I love collecting; my joy is finding private press American or European home studio electronic music from the 60s and 70s.

ARMYs are the ones who've stood by our side since our difficult days, who've shared our joy and sadness, who know us best.

Do not allow negative experiences to make you bitter. They should make you wiser, and with that wisdom you shall find joy.

If you flatter yourself properly you will be better able to enjoy yourself. Stretch your joy so that others enjoy you too.

The moment my name was called [Africa's Footballer of the Year] was truly overwhelming and I was about to scream with joy.

Find happiness in tribulation, too. Find it in joy alone and you could lose it, sooner or later, and be left with nothing.

If you live gladly to make others glad in God, your life will be hard, your risks will be high, and your joy will be full.

I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me the most civilised music in the world.

I think of myself as a beginner. Sometimes that's the whole joy. If you could just do it, there'd be no point in doing it.

The first sip [of tea] is joy, the second is gladness, the third is serenity, the fourth is madness, the fifth is ecstasy.

For many students, school is an obligation, not a joy and a privilege. This means you need to ‘sell’ the learning to them.

My mother is so full of joy and life. I am her child. And that is better than being the child of anyone else in the world.

As any good Buddhist will tell you, the only way to find permanent joy is by embracing the fact that nothing is permanent.

That is the joy of reading fiction: when all is said and done, the novel belongs to the reader and his or her imagination.

You transform all who are touched by you. Mundane concerns, troubles, and sorrows dissolve in your presence, bringing JOY.

Aioli epitomizes the heat, the power, and the joy of the Provencal sun, but it has another virtue -- it drives away flies.

No soul that seriously and constantly desires joy will ever miss it. Those who seek find. To those who knock it is opened.

Forget yourself by becoming interested in others. Do every day a good deed that will put a smile of joy on someone's face.

If you clean it up, get analytical, all the subtle joy and emotion you felt in the first place goes flying out the window.

strength is overcome by weakness/Joy is overcome by Pain/The night is overcome by Brightness/and Love-it remains the same.

There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.

I've got really good people around me, and I feel really blessed to get to do everything I get to do, so to me it's a joy.

I think people need to know that there's great peace and joy in knowing the Lord - the Lord Jesus Christ - as your savior.

There is a joy available that the deepest grief cannot put out. No circumstance or person can take away the joy God gives.

I've got great joy from rediscovering Western music. I love Schumann and Chopin, and those amazing symphonies of Bruckner.

When we are not rich enough to be able to purchase happiness, we must not approach to near and gaze on it in shop windows.

Art postulates communion, and the artist has an imperative need to make others share the joy which he experiences himself.

Good humor is a philosophic state of mind; it seems to say to nature that we take her no more seriously than she takes us.

Keep the joy of loving God in your heart and share this joy with all you meet especially your family. Be holy let us pray.

Real music is not for wealth, not for honours or even the joys of the mind... but as a path for realisation and salvation.

All human joys are swift of wing, For heaven doth so allot it; That when you get an easy thing, You find you haven't got it

Such is the life of a man. Moments of joy, obliterated by unforgettable sadness. There's no need to tell the children that.

Our sense of self-worth is the single most important determinant of the health, abundance, and joy we allow into our lives.

The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.

Serene will be our days, and bright and happy will our nature be, when love is an unerring light, and joy its own security.

Eurovision' lifts you off your feet - and, by that, I mean the absolute joy, total insanity and madness of the whole thing.

Sometimes I feel like crying, tears of happiness, tears of joy, to see the distance we've come and the progress we've made.

Acting isn't the be-all end-all. There are a lot of other things in my life that will bring me joy if I didn't act anymore.

I'm happy that I have brought laughter because I have been shown by many the value of it in so many lives, in so many ways.

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