The joy of doing well as a batsman for your country is much more than that little joy of going for a party and enjoying music. It is a completely different high, and I get high by performances. That's what I enjoy now.
There is a joy in sorrow which none but a mourner can know.
Being an uncle brings me utter joy.
Set me a task in which I can put something of my very self, and it is a task no longer; it is joy; it is art.
Karaoke was my family's happy secret. In those early years in America, like many immigrants, my parents struggled with poverty and loneliness, but they also built provisional families, and inside our bubble there was joy, understanding, an intimate language I could never translate - and above all there was song.
It doesn't matter if you have a desperate heart when you have to sing about joy; it doesn't matter if you're scared to death when the lights go on.
Holy Joy were a cult '80s band led by the wonderful songwriting genius that is Johny Brown.
We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone - but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.
Then there is a still higher type of courage - the courage to brave pain, to live with it, to never let others know of it and to still find joy in life; to wake up in the morning with an enthusiasm for the day ahead.
Beauty is whatever gives joy.
For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair.
It's such a joy to work with different ensembles and create a collaboration. Rehearsing and building a performance is very interesting for me.
The girls are a complete joy and I love their passion. They argue with me like mad and I love that too.
There is no joy so great as that of reporting that a good play has come to town.
We yearn, as spirit children of our Heavenly Father, for that joy which we once had with Him in the life before this one. His desire is to grant us that sacred wish for unity out of His love for us.
Tony Curtis was a joy to work with. He had a curious innocence that is very young and wise at the same time.
I ended up on 'Heroes' because I auditioned for the part like everybody else, but the writers were writing the role of Daphne, which was originally called Joy.
Ultimately, we wish the joy of perfect union with the person we love.
The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.
So I never spend a lot of time analyzing why people respond to my work. But I think that it's just the joy, a passion for life, that I think has always been in my characters. Beyond that, I'm just grateful for it.
It seemed pathetic and terrible to me and it still does, that men and women work eight hours a day at jobs that bring them no joy, no reward save a few dollars.
Sometimes you can just not spend that much money or do a minor change with color on a certain room, and it just can open up and brings people a lot of joy. They can go from hating a room or hating a house to loving it.
There was a lot of Southern Baptist preachers and some yelling ones but mostly we had a pastor who didn't scream and I found a lot of comfort and joy and peace as a child hearing the Bible.
Anytime James Carville, Paul Begala and David Axelrod hold hands and jump for joy, it's worth pondering how to turn their joy into tears.
Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
Once we as doctors are entrusted with the well-being of our patients and their children, it is our duty to take action, to be selfless, and fulfill our obligation to the service of others. I did so willingly, and it brought me great joy throughout my professional career. However, I always had a desire to do more.
The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love. What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork.
We love not just Judas Priest music, but we love heavy metal and we love to get out on that stage every night and perform. It's a joy to be able to do it.
Joy is like restless day; but peace divine like quiet night; Lead me, O Lord, till perfect Day shall shine through Peace to Light.
Thy love is singular when all thy delight is in Jesus Christ and in no other thing finds joy and comfort.
It is a fine seasoning for joy to think of those we love.
The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
Man's naked form belongs to no particular moment in history; it is eternal, and can be looked upon with joy by the people of all ages.
Meditation is painful in the beginning but it bestows immortal Bliss and supreme joy in the end.
I think comics are really - superhero comics are at their best and most primal when they're about joy and flying, and about escaping the gravity of the world. But, at the same time, that's not to say all stories should be happy.
I think there's a real joy in going to see movies when you discover them yourself.
