Quotes About Joy

For pure joy, I look at a small painting by Arbit Blatas. An ocean liner is at the center of the composition, perhaps ready to depart. It holds the promise of discovery.

When it comes to sitting down and composing, there is no hesitation, no concern, no critics breathing fire down my neck. For me, writing a song is the purest part of all. No one can mess with that.

Music is instant gratification in its purest form.

Sharing good food with your children is the purest form of love.

I don't have a boss. I don't answer to anybody. I do everything that I want to do out of the purity of making people happy.

One thing that I think never goes out of style is just purity. Niceness and purity. And the Muppets have never lost that. Kermit especially is just wide-eyed wonder, unblinking. And he can't blink. Which I think probably helps.

My purpose in performing is to communicate the joy I experience in living.

I started thinking about joy. Everything in our society is so purposeful. Let's bring joy back to the experience.

Everyone wants to be happy at the end of the day. If we can pursue what we really want to do, we don't get bored of life.

Yet I was ready for love and joy. I wanted to let go of my pain. I wanted to pursue life instead of holding fast to fantasies of death.

I wasn't really actively trying to pursue music, so I was really just allowed to create freely without any pressure or outside influences like, 'Oh, I should be making this' or 'I should be collaborating with this person.' It was just kind of like whatever I wanted to do. I was just having fun with it.

I'm living the life of liberty, happiness and pursuit.

I take so much pleasure at seeing customers who are happy: happy with what they eat, but happy with their friends and sharing a great moment together, and I think that is more important in life than the endless pursuit of perfection.

I never thought I'd be using this phrase, but the pursuit of happiness - that's my right.

The pursuit of happiness is in our Constitution. We're all entitled to have the best we can.

When push comes to shove, baseball is one of my favorite things in the world.

It's like, if I had the luxury of choice, and didn't have to worry about making a living, I would definitely want to get into whatever field it was that allowed me to push further and further comedically. Because that's the joy of it.

My parents always pushed creativity on us, but they made it seem like the fun thing to do.

We're always going to party and have fun. We'll always be pushing it and leaving you with something to remember.

You can go anywhere in the world, and people's faces light up when they put delicious food in their mouths.

As a little kid in a sometimes hard place, I went to the movies as often as I could. Movies - making them, seeing them - is not something that could ever lose its pleasure for me. That puts them on a short list of things that eternally give me joy - love, family, food, movies.

Putting good foods into kids' bodies puts me at peace and makes me really happy.

The process of putting the DVD and the CD together was great fun, because it provided a good excuse for the four of us to make time to get together again. I am especially pleased with the end result of these two projects.

I think we manifest the very thing we put out. If you're putting out negativity, then you're going to retrieve that same sentiment. If you emanate joy, it comes back to you.