Quotes About Joy

A ella le gustaba la vida mundana y lo seguía alegremente».

La tristeza puede llorarse. Pero la impaciencia de la alegría no es fácil de conjurar.

Es wird Abend, aber die Luft ist noch lau. Dies ist einer jener ergreifender Augenblicke, in denen Erde und Menschen so vollkommen miteinander harmonieren, dass es unmöglich scheint, jemanden zu finden, der nicht glücklich ist.

Ancak kendimden d??ar? ç?k?nca vard?r sevinç, tadland???m ÅŸeylere baÄŸland???m, varl???m? dünyaya katt???m zaman vard?r.

Tant que les livres existeront, mon bonheur sera garanti.

The joy of learning is as indispensable in study as breathing is to running.

The man who has known pure joy, if only for a moment ... is the only man for whom affliction is something devastating. At the same time he is the only man who has not deserved the punishment. But, after all, for him it is no punishment; it is God holding his hand and pressing rather hard. For, if he remains constant, what he will discover buried deep under the sound of his own lamentations is the pearl of the silence of God.

The mind is not forced to believe in the existence of anything (subjectivism, absolute idealism, solipsism, skepticism: c.f. the Upanishads, the Taoists and Plato, who, all of them, adopt this philosophical attitude by way of purification). That is why the only organ of contact with existence is acceptance, love. That is why beauty and reality are identical. That is why joy and the sense of reality are identical.

Perfect joy excludes even the very feeling of joy, for in the soul filled by the object no corner is left for saying 'I'. We cannot imagine such joys when they are absent, thus the incentive for seeking them is lacking.

The joy of learning is as indispensable in study as breathing is in running. Where it is lacking there are no real students, but only poor caricatures of apprentices who, at the end of their apprenticeship, will not even have a trade.

What we love is perfect joy itself. When we know this, even hope becomes useless; it no longer makes sense. The only thing that remains to hope for is the grace not to disobey here below. The rest is God's affair alone and not our concern.

Il s'agit, après avoir toujours plié, tout subi, tout encaissé en silence, d'oser enfin se redresser. Se tenir debout. Prendre la parole à son tour. Se tenir des hommes pendant quelques jours... Cette grève en elle-même est joie pure.

There is only waiting, attention, silence, immobility, constant through suffering and joy... We cannot take a single step towards heaven. It is not in our power to travel in a vertical direction. If however we look heavenwards for a long time, God comes and takes us up. He raises us easily. As Aeschylus says: There is no effort in what is divine. There is an easiness in salvation which is more difficult for us than all of our efforts.

What we love is perfect joy itself. When we know this, even hope becomes superfluous, it no longer has any meaning. The only thing left to hope for is the grace not to be disobedient here below. The rest is the affair of God alone and does not concern us.

The intelligence can only be led by desire. For there to be desire, there must be pleasure and joy in the work. The intelligence only grows and bears fruit in joy. The joy of learning is as indispensable in study as breathing is in running.

But Christ granted to his beloved friend, and without a doubt all those of his spiritual lineage, to come to him without degradation, defilement or distress, but in joy, purity and uninterrupted sweetness.

Il faut avoir eu par la joie la révélation de la réalité pour trouver la réalité dans la souffrance. Autrement la vie n'est qu'un rêve plus ou moins mauvais. Il faut parvenir à trouver une réalité plus pleine encore dans la souffrance qui est néant et vide. De même il faut aimer beaucoup la vie pour aimer encore davantage la mort.

Si on trouve la plénitude de la joie dans la pensée que Dieu est, il faut trouver la même plénitude dans la connaissance que soi-même on n'est pas, car c'est la même pensée. Et cette connaissance n'est étendue à la sensibilité que par la souffrance et la mort.

To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life.

What is a godly pastor, after all, but one who is like God, with a heart of grace; someone who sees God bringing prodigals home and runs to embrace them, weeps for joy that they have been brought home, and kisses them—asking no questions—no qualifications or conditions required?

She found beauty in the children.

The studying, the books, exams, arguments, theories. The jokes and pints, laughter, kisses and songs. Life was like running, ninety percent sweat and toil, ten per cent joy.

Everyone laughed their heads off, which is not what literally happened but I like the idea of laughing heads becoming detached from bodies through extreme hilarity, so it is a good way to describe things.

Everyone laughed their heads off, which is not what literally happened but I like the idea of laughing heads becoming detached from bodies through extreme hilarity, so it was a good way to describe things.