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Joy is not the result of getting what you want; it is the way to get what you want. In the deepest sense, joy is what you want.
Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.
Performance art is about joy, about making something that's so full of kind of a wild joy that you really can't put into words.
I just - you know, some people just have some very full laughter - full of joy - and have no shame or fear of letting that out.
Sympathy with joy intensifies the sum of sympathy in the world, sympathy with pain does not really diminish the amount of pain.
Joy is a very high frequency current of energy with a great deal of energy content. Somebody who is joyful has a lot of energy.
There is joy in all: in the hair I brush each morning, in the Cannon towel, newly washed, that I rub my body with each morning.
No matter what all your teeth and wet fingers anticipated, there was no accounting for the way that simple joy could shake you.
Our home joys are the most delightful earth affords, and the joy of parents in their children is the most holy joy of humanity.
Death is as casual and often as unexpected as birth. It is as difficult to define grief as joy. Each is finite. Each will fade.
With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bent arm for a pillow - I have still joy in the midst of all these things.
I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own.
And whoso is found a faithful, a just, and a wise steward shall enter into the joy of his Lord, and shall inherit eternal life.
I was struck by the joy of those pilots in committing coldblooded murder . . . Frankly, this is not cojones. This is cowardice.
Our appointment with life is in the present moment. If we do not have peace and joy right now, when will we have peace and joy?
The essential difference between the unhappy, neurotic type person and him of great joy is the difference between get and give.
Our problems are not solved by physical force, by hatred, by warOur problems are solved by loving kindness by gentleness, by joy
Understanding of our fellow human beings...becomes fruitful only when it is sustained by sympathetic feelings in joy and sorrow.
For strength to bear is found in duty alone, and he is blest indeed who learns to make the joy of others cure his own heartache.
If there was an abundance of misery in the world, there was also sufficient joy, yes - as long as one knew where to look for it.
To be free from false identity and the hypnosis of conditioning is the biggest smile and joy you are going to feel in your life.
Tomorrow belongs to those of us who conceive of it as belonging to everyone; who lend the best of ourselves to it, and with joy.
The woods of Arcady are dead, And over is their antique joy; Of old the world on dreaming fed Gray Truth is now her painted toy.
Speculative joy, the joy derived from being right and being rewarded, may well be similar to the rush felt by a winning gambler.
I am finding deep joy in depending on Christ for the guidance only He can provide as He produces the fruit of gospel in my life.
The Seven Factors of Awakening are mindfulness, investigation of phenomena, diligence, joy, ease, concentration, and letting go.
When I first started, my message was about joy, but I didn't really have the vocabulary and life experience to fully deliver it.
A life of short duration...could be so rich in joy and love that it could contain more meaning than a life lasting eighty years.
Here we are the way politics ought to be in America; the politics of happiness, the politics of purpose and the politics of joy.
As society has shifted from an agrarian to an urban structure, the joy and necessity of diligent, hard work have been neglected.
Like earth, awake, and warm, and bright With joy the spirit moves and burns; So up to thee! O Fount of Light! Our light returns.
My joy knows no bounds... I will devote all my energy and all the powers available to me to the service of Nigeria and humanity.
For there is but one problem - the problem of human relations. We forget that there is no hope or joy except in human relations.
Showing joy by jumping up and down and clapping goes away at some point between pre-school and being old enough to go to orgies.
Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow. ~Swedish Proverb Lust is easy. Love is hard. Like is most important.
Faith comes to intelligence as a light that overflows it with joy and inspires it with a certitude that does away with question.
There's a war on. We don't know how anything's going to end. We just have to grasp each fleeting moment of joy as it whizzes by.
When a character has so many secrets and so much inner life, it's a joy to play those characters because you can use your craft.
I'm very happy because I won a lot. I've won races and lived in a world that just gave me joy, so I remember it very positively.
Does the world satisfy thee? Then thou hast thy reward & portion in this life; make much of it, for thou shalt know no other joy
The song of thrush and blackbird, joy that falls so gently on the ears to celebrate another day of life and living, flying free.
The greatest enemy of ordinary daily goodness and joy is not imperfection, but the demand for some supposed perfection or order.
Fun is temporary at best; it's risky, even dangerous, at worst. Joy, on the other hand, was mystery I couldn't seem to decipher.
No one will calmly and quietly submit to bear the cross except those who have learned to seek their happiness beyond this world.
Delight,--top-gallant delight is to him, who acknowledges no law or lord, but the Lord his God, and is only a patriot to heaven.
It was far in the sameness of the wood; I was running with joy on the Demon's trail, Though I knew what I hunted was no true god.
In life eternal, there is perfect joy and light, without pain or torture, and there is communion with God Himself and His angels.
When we imagine the power of all our sisters standing together on the shoulders of a quality education - our joy knows no bounds.
We must try to contribute joy to the world. That is true no matter what our problems, our health, our circumstances. We must try.
Technological society has succeeded in multiplying the opportunities for pleasure, but it has great difficulty in generating joy.