Quotes About Joy

So we strive for perfection in the areas in which we can control, and that isn't necessarily what provides contentment and joy for ourselves and, more importantly, for our children.

Hip hop scholarship must strive to reflect the form it interrogates, offering the same features as the best hip hop: seductive rhythms, throbbing beats, intelligent lyrics, soulful samples, and a sense of joy that is never exhausted in one sitting.

I love entertaining people; I strive to make them feel good, and they make me feel wonderful. To explain it simply, I like what I do, and my ambition is to get better as I get older. That's really what I'm all about.

We're constantly striving for success, fame and comfort when all we really need to be happy is someone or some thing to be enthusiastic about.

In 1982, I wrote in my diary that life is motion, not joy. If the way you measure success in life is by how much joy it brings you, you're measuring inaccurately. Life is also sadness, defeat, striving. It is many things.

You have to be sincere in your feelings. And fear is one of those, sometimes; doubt is one of those; jealousy, anger - all your emotions are not going to be considered the strong emotions; all of them are not going to be love, happiness, joy.

I think I run my strongest when I run with joy, with gratitude, with focus, with grace.

Draw your pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly.

Dance is my passion, and I feel so strongly about it that just watching people dance lights up my face and makes me come alive.

The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations, and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander, to do.

I always say, dare to struggle, dare to grin.

I had a mundane, happy childhood, without much struggle.

The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.

I love acting, so I don't feel that I have ever struggled.

What interests me are the complexities and contradictions and struggles and joys of messy human beings.

It's tough, but you can still find joy in the struggle. Going through a season with a lot of struggles, I got a lot of practice. You have to set yourself up for joy, give yourself the best opportunity to have that going on inside.

During the 80s and 90s, we all became consumed with ourselves. In the 21st century, we've come back to simpler times. People are struggling economically and this has forced them to scale back the material aspects of their lives and realise the beauty of finding the simple joy in being with the people we love.

I just love being able to create and make things that inspire and that make people laugh, and my motivation to keep going is to make more opportunities to do that.

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

If I'm enjoying myself, I find my opportunities for more fun become greater.

Makeup is malleable and mercurial: The biggest joy I have every day is the opportunity to create, to play, and to invent with something I've loved forever.

'Say Hello' was inspired by optimism.

Having a child at 55... that's optimism.

Children are my favorite people, because they inspire me with their optimism and spirit.