I have to keep reminding myself: If you give your life to God, he doesn't promise you happiness and that everything will go well. But he does promise you peace. You can have peace and joy, even in bad circumstances.
I've always associated the moment of writing with a moment of lift, of joy, of unexpected reward.
I like to express certain things that happen in my life, the joy of spring, the birds singing and young babies coming into the world. You know, the whole thing as well as the part I'm not happy with, the sad part.
We have to embrace obstacles to reach the next stage of joy.
Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
Peace was declared, but not all of us were drunk with joy or stricken blind.
There is no such thing as the pursuit of happiness, but there is the discovery of joy.
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 had admired Richard Burton for years and years before I had ever worked with him. He was a great, great actor. It was a joy to get to know him as a person.
I've worked with very few that I considered unpleasant. Dennis the Menace was a joy to work on.
So, to really execute design in its highest form and making people feel joy, that's a great reward.
Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past.
Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.
To love the one who loves you, To admire the one who admires you, In a word, to be the idol of one's idol, Is exceeding the limit of human joy; It is stealing fire from heaven.