Joyous Quotations

It is at once the most overwhelmingly frustrating and exasperating task and the most joyous and rewarding experience to make human beings out of children.

Writing, for all that it's harder than nursing ever was, is also more joyous and more fun and a lot less dangerous. And the major themes of my life have become the major themes of my writing, too - so it has all worked out pretty well.

I'm constantly coming up with new strategies for getting to the mental place where writing is so joyous and playful that I almost can't help putting the words down.

Any time I get to go home is a joyous occasion.

I look on life as a joyous adventure.

A trip to the picture framer's, with a selection of prints, is the most joyous outing I can imagine. I've spent more money on framing than on anything else I own.

Singing for me has always been a joyous but private pleasure that connects me in a lyric thread to my beloved grandmother Alice.

The more generous we are, the more joyous we become. The more cooperative we are, the more valuable we become. The more enthusiastic we are, the more productive we become. The more serving we are, the more prosperous we become.

The inexorable compulsion of all things is towards health or destruction, life or death, and we hasten our joys or our woes to the logical extreme. It is urgent, therefore, that we be joyous if we wish to live.

I only wish Chet Atkins could be here for this joyous occasion.

I remember the absolute, joyous freedom I felt when I first went to college: I had no bedtime, no curfew, no rules - I loved it. I was in charge. I couldn't believe I didn't have to answer to anyone.

I believe in the joyous power of an unscheduled dance break.

That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquillity.

It's nice to be irritated. It's a very joyous thing.

Perhaps one of the most difficult things for us to do is to choose a notable and joyous dress for men. There would be more joy in life if we were to accustom ourselves to use all the beautiful colours we can in fashioning our own clothes.

Me and Joyous always work really well together. We can just read each other.

I extend my greetings and good wishes to all our citizens on the joyous occasion of Deepawali. The festival of lights, celebrated with gaiety and enthusiasm all over the country, signifies the victory of good over evil and is an appropriate occasion for us to resolve to follow the high ideals in life.

Last year is last year. That's a done deal. That's why I don't even talk about last year that much. That was a joyous memory. Now we're living in the moment, and the moment right now is we're 4-5 and we're still digging and we're still struggling. What matters is the realness of the moment. That's what we're not overcoming right now. We're being overcome by it.

It feels good to have that monkey off our back. It's a joyous locker room.

I think to have done TITANIC would have been a tortuous experience altogether. I feel good about where my life is, now. I feel free and joyous and happy and more liberated than I have ever been.

It is a joyous occasion for a scientist when the subject which interests him most is recognised by the highest honour that the world can bestow.

We were very efficient with our ones. I was happy with that. The game was under control in the first quarter. I would've liked to finish better. We played a lot with our second and third team. When they get an opportunity, they have to perform. They're one play away from being starters. It wasn't a real joyous dressing room.

I would work with any one of them again in a heartbeat because it was joyous and incredibly easy.

I just like the joyous aspect of playing comedy.

It's just cool to be involved in something that's that big and joyous and meant to make people feel happy.

And when Thyself with shining Foot shall pass / Among the Guests Star-scattered on the Grass, / And in thy joyous Errand reach the Spot / Where I made one - turn down an empty Glass!

Broadly speaking, there are two approaches to crime: the realistically detailed police procedural, usually grim and downbeat, and the more left-field, joyous theatre of ideas in which past masters once specialised. Knowing that I would never be able to handle the former, I set about reviving the latter.

This is joyous news for Marc and our family. At the same time, our immediate concern remains with Bob (Woodruff) ... and the entire Woodruff family as we hope and pray for continuing good news about his recovery.

I have to sacrifice for both sides. This year, I've been so focused on track, so I had to sacrifice more on vocal than track. (Track) is what I intend to do in college. It's been a nice balance this year. No events running into each other or anything. I've had a very joyous year.

Nothing can convince me that people are at one with their work unless they're joyous about it.

I don't know. I guess this is what I was hired to do so, you know, OK. You did what you are supposed to do. I still don't feel the overwhelmingly joyous feeling of being here.

The set of '12 Years a Slave' was an extremely joyous one! We all recognized that we were making a powerful, necessary and beautiful film, and we weren't about doing it without that sense of responsibility, and we recognized that we needed each other to tell this story. We also knew we needed to hold each other up as we told the story.

The most infectiously joyous men and women are those who forget themselves in thinking about and serving others" ()

The high price of petrol continues to play on consumers' minds. Shareholders have cause to be less joyous about the value of their savings. This strengthens the Reserve Bank's case to stay on the interest-rate sidelines.

The unfortunate the fools are those men who, for some reason best known to themselves, probably on account of their exaggerated estimation of what is to be lost in the process would like to stop it. The privileged ones the wise are those few who, being fully aware of the increasing worthlessness of present-day mankind and of its much-applauded progress, know how little there is to be lost in the coming crash and look forward to it with joyous expectation as to the necessary condition of a new beginning a new Golden Age, sunlit crest of the next long drawn downward wave upon the surface of the endless Ocean of Life.

Love is freedom. The freedom to express the most joyous part of Who You Are. The part that knows that you are One with everything and everyone.

This is a joyous occasion of celebration. The entire community became involved in making this happen. I congratulate all partners in this project (and) the citizens of Franklin County who made this happen.

Don't be concerned about being disloyal to your pain by being joyous.

It was fantastic. Earl took fight songs from various colleges and universities and made it a terrific, joyous time.

It's about loving and letting go. I think it's about family and those relationships that are incredibly joyous and incredibly intense and confronting. It's about people learning to be comfortable in their own skin.

I consider my life one long string of failures, but all of the failure has made me more grateful to be alive, more joyous in the moment and more appreciative for every day I have.

I came down to make a joyous sound.

Life is meant to be fun, and joyous, and fulfilling.

The life of entire surrender is a joyous life all along the way.

Take your patience pill ...You can be joyous, but you can't be a jackass.

I don't find R.E.M. to be nihilistic. There is a constant undertone of joyous optimism. I'm not going to kill myself to Patti Smith or R.E.M.

Nobody knows how long you're going to have life on Earth, so you really have to work at being joyous and happy.

I'm one of the most joyous people I've ever met.

Only authentic human beings can create a society which will be joyous, ecstatic, and in the real sense, human.

Once you start to analyze it [Joyous Sound], you've completely lost it. That one just came.

Sure, I'm an optimistic, joyous person, but I'm also afraid and insecure....

I'm not a sad old hippie - I'm a joyous old hippie.

Laughter is the joyous universal evergreen of life!

Large, musing eyes, neither joyous nor sorry.

Sexual intercourse... a joyous, joyous, joyous, joyous impaling of woman on man's sensual mast.

Hear how the birds, on ev'ry blooming spray, With joyous musick wake the dawning day.

Without Thee what is all the morning's wealth?Come, blessed barrier between day and day,Dear mother of fresh thoughts and joyous health!

The more generous we are, the more joyous we become.