Beethoven's fourth and seventh symphonies have a certain amount in common. Well, of course they're both written by Beethoven, but besides that, I would say their overall effect and idea is to provide the listener with an incredible sense of joy.
There is no glory in star or blossom till looked upon by a loving eye; There is no fragrance in April breezes till breathed with joy as they wander by.
I really feel like the gift is also the curse. It's always half-and-half. Whatever brings you the most joy will also probably bring you the most pain. Always a price to pay.
We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.
Taking joy in living is a woman's best cosmetic.
Everything has to do with meditation. It's a conversation; it's a joy - it's everything.
I've worked with very few that I considered unpleasant. Dennis the Menace was a joy to work on.
Safin, in his way, is very talented. It is a joy to watch them play; it is tennis of a very high quality.
I have known healthy, wealthy people who were depressed, and people with critical illnesses who could honestly attest to joy.
I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own.
Everyone should have kids. They are the greatest joy in the world. But they are also terrorists. You'll realize this as soon as they're born, and they start using sleep deprivation to break you.
I know of nothing that brings greater joy to the human heart than laboring at home or abroad for the salvation of the souls of men. I know of nothing which gives us a greater love of all that is good, than teaching this Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Those who prepared for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themselves at the expense of joy.
I always was one who didn't take things for granted. But I think I do appreciate things more now. The small moments of joy that we find each day are so much more precious now than when I looked at them before.
There are those who believe Black people possess the secret of joy and that it is this that will sustain them through any spiritual or moral or physical devastation.
Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another.
The Gospel purifies and renews: it bears fruit wherever the community of believers hears and welcomes the grace of God in truth and lives in charity. This is my faith; this is my joy.
I'm such a comedy fan that I just love laughing and so admire comedians who have brought me joy.
Bill Gates recently picked up the ukulele. And Warren Buffett is a huge ukulele fan. I even got to strum a few chords with Francis Ford Coppola. It blows my mind that these people, who have everything in the world they could want, have picked up the ukulele and found a little bit of joy.
My dear brothers and sisters, the joy we feel has little to do with the circumstances of our lives and everything to do with the focus of our lives.
Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.
Joy is prayer; joy is strength: joy is love; joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.
Joy always came after pain.
My mother had abandoned the family, so grandmother raised me. And she was instrumental in that she taught me that the world is a glorious place. She taught me to embrace humanity. And she'd say there's never an excuse for joy. And to be thankful.
The kitchen really is the castle itself. This is where we spend our happiest moments and where we find the joy of being a family.
As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.
We tell them that we believe it will be beautiful because that is our specialty, we only create joy and beauty. We have never done a sad work. Through the drawings, we hope a majority will be able to visualize it.
Sports uplift us. It's celebratory, gives us optimism and joy.
Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices - today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it.
My professional life in Hollywood has been filled with joy and laughter.
Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.
It's astonishing what you learn and feel and see along the way. That's why a reporter's job, as you know, is such a joy.
I'm trying to stay as calm as possible and focus one day at a time, but when reality sets in, I feel everything: anxiety, excitement, nerves, pressure and joy.
When my mother read 'The Joy Luck Club', she was always complaining to me how she had to tell her friends that, no, she was not the mother or any of the mothers in the book.
