I think it's safe to say that each of us has at least one issue we are passionate about and struggle with, issues that robs us of our peace, our joy and our ability to experience love.
The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
For me, half the joy of achieving has been the struggle and the fight, the pitting myself against the world and all its competition - and winning.
It is my greatest joy to live a really good part, even though it imposes great strain. An artist is tired but proud when he has created a great work of art. So it is with the actor who really lives a great role and is proud of the part he played.
Labor wants pride and joy in doing good work, a sense of making or doing something beautiful or useful - to be treated with dignity and respect as brother and sister.
I feel a sense of sadness and joy. Mostly sadness though about what I've experienced and sadness about what others have experienced in reference to the stroke.
I don't understand people whose gratification is a BMW. You don't know what joy is until you see a kid who was tortured get adopted by a family.
I enjoy writing, sometimes; I think that most writers will tell you about the agony of writing more than the joy of writing, but writing is what I was meant to do.
The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow; there is no humor in Heaven.
Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
A commencement is a time of joy. It is also a time of melancholy. But then again, so is life.
It is now possible to quantify people's levels of happiness pretty accurately by asking them, by observation, and by measuring electrical activity in the brain, in degrees from terrible pain to sublime joy.
As a singer, the biggest joy I have are the arrangements.
It was a joy to be a part of the team that created Round The Horne. I was involved with the show at a time of my life when I was very happy., and that happiness overflowed into the scripts.