Top 1200 Joy And Sadness Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

There are people who buy pictures because they were difficult to do, and are done. Such pictures are often only a record of pain and dull perseverance. Great works of art should look as though they were made in joy. Real joy is a tremendous activity, dull drudgery is nothing to it.

I think just about everybody ought to get a second chance and I'd like to see it worked out, because he (Pete Rose) brought a lot of joy to the game, and he gave a lot of joy to people, and he's paid a price - God knows, he's paid a price.

There were sins whose fascination was more in the memory than in the doing of them, strange triumphs that gratified the pride more than the passions, and gave to the intellect a quickened sense of joy, greater than any joy they brought, or could ever bring, to the senses.

And what you do is you go into where your anger is, if you're writing anger, you go into where your hatred is, if you're writing hatred. Your joy is, if you're writing joy. You find the source of the energy that draws hatred, anger, joy, etc., etc., etc. That's what you have to find. That's what you do as an actor and that's what you do as a writer. And you bring people to the page.

Happiness comes from spiritual wealth, not material wealth... Happiness comes from giving, not getting. If we try hard to bring happiness to others, we cannot stop it from coming to us also. To get joy, we must give it, and to keep joy, we must scatter it. .

I was caught in a private cycle of sadness and the only conceivable relief I could find was in the telling.

I have a wonderful joy in a wonderful way and my wonderful joy has come to stay.

Each night about this time he puts on sadness like a garment and goes on writing.

Birds sing even when the world is filled with sadness. I don't know why people can't do the same thing.

There is sadness and confusion in our hearts / And the world prepares to fight / as it tears itself apart, it isn't fair

A flood of emotions rushes into me. Pain and anger. Sadness and pity. But most surprising of all, hope.

Look deep inside, and when you locate the sadness, give it a vacation, and focus on the simple things.

Touring is real demanding. You swing between sadness and euphoria. But for us to cry about it isn't fair.

We must curb ourfury, and allow sadness to diminish, and speak our stories with coolness and deliberation.

There's no way for them to take away my sadness, but they can make sure I am not empty of all the other feelings.

I see the joy in life and I see the joy in simple things. I over-compliment. I over-praise. I over-express my feelings toward people because I never got it in my family. I am the first to hug somebody, because I wasn't hugged.

When any character gets killed, there's always a sadness about that, because they're part of the family in a way.

I rose as from the death that wipes out the sadness of life, and then dies itself in the new morrow.

Creativity starts with humanity when were being human we feel - joys, sadness, when we're sick, when we're nervous

Walking into the studio making 'Scared Hearts Club,' it was important for us as artists to write a joyful record, but using joy as a weapon because joy is the best weapon against oppression; it's the best weapon against depression.

The very best gift... is that anyone can experience those unexpected twinkles of joy that make a magical moment. At these moments, you feel true, deep joy because of a great new insight, a beautiful prospect, or a glimpse into the radiance of another soul. They are the magic moments when life seems better than you ever realized.

We had no choice. Sadness was a dangerous as panthers and bears. the wilderness needs your whole attention.

The reason for the sadness of this modern age and the men who live in it is that it looks for the truth in everything and finds it.

Anger will come and go and the watcher abides. Sadness comes and passes by and the witness remains

Man, I was drowning in sadness. And Angelina, she lifted me right up out of there.

While it is important to trash the governor, it should be done in the context of regret, sadness and balance.

The greatest joy comes from giving and serving, so replace your habit of focusing exclusively on yourself and what's in it for you. When you make the shift to supporting others in your life, without expecting anything in return, you'll think less about what you want and find comfort and joy in the act of giving and serving.

Real joy means immediate expansion. If we experience pure joy, immediately our heart expands. We feel that we are flying in the divine freedom-sky. The entire length and breadth of the world becomes ours, not for us to rule over, but as an expansion of our consciousness. We become reality and vastness.

Don't put off joy and happiness. Strive to live each day to its fullest, squeezing all the joy you can out of each moment. Instead of measuring your life's value by your progress toward a single goal, remember that the direction you're headed in is more important than temporary results.

When a person has lived generously and fought fiercely, she deserves more than sadness at the end.

When I started in the theater, the joy for me was playing different parts, and I get set alight by different people and different worlds. The biggest joy for me is jumping around and going from that to this to that, never feeling that I'm any one thing - because I'm not, and we as people aren't.

Happiness and joy comes to you when it moves through you. There is no other pathway--and that's the miracle. You will have a number of opportunities in the days just ahead to be a vehicle of happiness and joy for another. Step right into that. Be the source of that. As you bring others to a smile, so, too, will you bring yourself. The method is foolproof.

Happiness comes in moments, & then it's gone until the next time. Could be years. But sadness settles it.

I think there’s no greater joy than completing a song out of thin air. It’s like inventing something, but it’s invisible, you know? It’s weird. It amazes me. You can send it out in the world, and that’s the joy. It’s like giving birth to all these songs and letting them go like they’re your kids.

The joy of Being, which is the only true happiness, cannot come to you through any form, possession, achievement, person, or event - through anything that happens. That joy cannot come to you - ever. It emanates from the formless dimension within you, from consciousness itself and thus is one with who you are.

I know a cure for sadness: Let our hands touch something that makes your eyes smile.

Why a musician loves playing jazz or classical music or what makes them happy, and why an artist likes to paint - it's so hard to actually put into words what that feeling is of joy that we get, but that is what I get: a feeling of joy when the camera is rolling, even if I'm doing something that is not joyous.

I love walking down the street and seeing faces and drama and happiness and sadness and dirt and cleanliness.

Sadness was something I was thinking about in my life outside of writing, so it wormed itself into whatever I wrote.

I can mourn internally, just be quiet about it. I have my moments but I'm not a real, expressive person, especially when it comes to like sadness.

. . . owning a dog always ended with this sadness because dogs just don't live as long as people do.

Most poets in their youth begin in adolescent sadness. I find it more rewarding to end in gladness.

All that sadness. All that anger. It is the smoke that gets into your eyes. If you do not blow it away, how can you hope to see?

I lost a lot of finals, so it was difficult. It's sad, and that sadness stays with you, but I always enjoyed the game.

We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness.

But I saw the pain and sadness in everything, and swirled it round my mouth like a fine wine.

Don’t allow negative people to steal your joy. When you lose your joy, you lose your strength.

I carry a deep sadness of the heart which must now and then break out in sound.

It's one of the great fallacies, it seems to me, that time gives much of anything but years and sadness to man.

There could be joy in destruction, too, couldn't there? Isn't Jesus Christ's Second Coming supposed to occur only after a lot of unmitigated destruction? But again, human history is fraught with tragedies in which man spared no effort to destroy with millenarian joy, only to learn that no messiah appeared afterwards.

Sadness usually results from one of the following causes either when a man does not succeed, or is ashamed of his success.

By remembering that I don't know sadness or pain like the people do in the camp and to be sad will not help them.

I can't give a formula for how to spread joy, but I know that the source of the joy is one's own joy, and that that is not distinct from pleasure and fulfillment of desires. So I ask: What makes me feel alive? What is the expression of my inner wild? What would really feel good? What if what makes me feel alive leads me toward the deeper joys, which are found in generosity and service, in creating things that are beautiful to me? Maybe the world needs more of that. How many petroleum company executives are doing their work because it's beautiful to them? Not very many, I bet.

Do not look for rest in any pleasure, because you were not created for pleasure: you were created for joy. And if you do not know the difference between pleasure and joy you have not yet begun to live.

My parents' divorce left me with a lot of sadness and pain and acting, and especially humour, was my way of dealing with all that.

Time heals many wounds but this loss becomes the defining sadness of your life.

I hail with joy- for I am a temperance man and a friend of temperance-I hail with joy the efforts that are being made to raise wine in the country. I believe that when you have everywhere cheap, pure, unadulterated wine, you will no longer have need for either prohibitory or license laws.

I want to believe that happiness might at least be possible later on in life for people prone to sadness.

When the heart is full of joy, it always allows its joy to escape. It is like the fountain in the marketplace; whenever it is full it runs away in streams, and so soon as it ceases to overflow, you may be quite sure that it has ceased to be full. The only full heart is the overflowing heart.

Sadness, discomfort, frustration -- they are all valid human emotions. Why would we want to suppress them?