Quotes About Joy

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As everything ages and passes away, may each of us be kind to ourselves; As everything ages and passes away, may each of us accept joy and sorrow; As everything ages and passes away, may each of us be happy and at peace.

Why go to Antarctica, why do a film like 'Grizzly Man'? It's the sheer joy of storytelling - it's the urge.

I urge readers to experience things that they love and give up things that are not working.

For anyone who doesn't have that connection with Mozart, I urge those people to go and find some of his music, because it can quite genuinely make you just glad to be alive.

Holi is here and I urge everyone to experience 'Rang De' with their families.

My body's urge is to be in a pair of shorts, working and going down to the beach.

The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.

Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.

Come, let us have some tea and continue to talk about happy things.

I have long maintained that each of us has three chances a day to be happy: Breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make us rejoice.

Price is rarely the most important thing. A cheap product might sell some units. Somebody gets it home and they feel great when they pay the money, but then they get it home and use it and the joy is gone.

Rock n' Roll came from the slaves singing gospel in the fields. Their lives were hell and they used music to lift out of it, to take them away. That's what rock n' roll should do - take you to a better place.

The tree I had in the garden as a child, my beech tree, I used to climb up there and spend hours. I took my homework up there, my books, I went up there if I was sad, and it just felt very good to be up there among the green leaves and the birds and the sky.

The great thing about candy is that it can't be spoiled by the adult world. Candy is innocent. And all Halloween candy pales next to candy corn, if only because candy corn used to appear, like the Great Pumpkin, solely on Halloween.

I had a very happy childhood, but I still used my imagination as a leisure resort.

It is a joy to be an artist, but it doesn't mean very much unless that work is somehow useful in some way and contributes to others.

Seeing the funny side of life is useful, and I've always had a sense of humour.

Mathematics is like music. Neither needs to be useful. It is enough that each gives delight to those who seek delight from it.

Come Christmas Eve, we usually go to my mom and dad's. Everybody brings one gift and then we play that game when we all steal it from each other. Some are really cool, others are useful and some are a bit out there.

It might be useful to distinguish between pleasure and joy. But maybe everybody does this very easily, all the time, and only I am confused.

I think the most useful thing you can do as a writer is to reconstruct real life with all its color, hardship, joy, and intrigue. If you're interested in people, you honor them best, I think, by making the fullest possible picture of them. Your subjects may - and from my experience probably will - protest your portrait of them.

I believe that contentment or any sustained period of joy that doesn't inspire thought that leads to action almost immediately is useless.