Joy came always after pain.
Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures.
When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive, to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.
There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.
Heaven would indeed be heaven if lovers were there permitted as much enjoyment as they had experienced on earth.
Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness.
To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.
Oh, how miserable it is to have no one to share your sorrows and joys, and, when your heart is heavy, to have no soul to whom you can pour out your woes.
Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.
Broken lines do not know what they want. With their caprices they cut time up, abuse routes, slash the joyous flowers and split the peaceful fruits with their corners.
Straight lines go too quickly to appreciate the pleasures of the journey. They rush straight to their target and then die in the very moment of their triumph without having thought, loved, suffered or enjoyed themselves
True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.
To know God and not oneself to be God, to know blessedness and not oneself to enjoy it, is a state of disunity or unhappiness.”
Wind, light and time ever revolve; Let us then enjoy life as best we can.
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
...nothing could be more pleasant than to live in solitude, enjoy the spectacle of nature, and occasionally read some book... ...
When work is a pleasure, life is a joy. When work is a duty, life is slavery!
Love is creation's greatest joy.
He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade.
What is joy? The wish to live. The joy of life. Who care for awards!
Work is a joy, laziness is a scourge.
In what we find joy, we will also find sorrow.
Forced laughter is not joy, it is sorrow.
The most beautiful thing in the world is, precisely, the conjunction of learning and inspiration. Oh, the passion for research and the joy of discovery!
I discovered to my joy, that it is life, not death, that has no limits.
Modern paintings are like women, you'll never enjoy them if you try to understand them.
If there is one thing that the women and men of the late 20th century who have an awareness and enjoyment of history can be sure of, it is that Islam was not sent from Heaven to foster egotism and mediocrity.
To be joyous is to be a madman in a world of sad ghosts
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.
“It is a wonderful seasoning of all enjoyments to think of those we love.”
Color is my daylong obsession, joy, and torment.
As we observe children, we see the vitality of their spirit, the maximum effort put forth in all they do, the intuition, attention and focus they bring to all life’s events, and the sheer joy they experience in living.
What we are and what we possess is but a loan- and that not for long! Do not clutch what has been given to you, for joy and desire to possess are but nails fastening you to the perishable world.
For me, music making is the most joyful activity possible, the most perfect expression of any emotion.
Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.
Seek not, my soul, the life of the immortals; but enjoy to the full the resources that are within thy reach.
It is as if my life were magically run by two electric currents: joyous positive and despairing negative - whichever is running at the moment dominates my life, floods it.
“Our desires interweave with one another; and in the confusion of existence, it is seldom that a joy is promptly paired with the desire that longed for it.”
As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower beings will never know health or peace. He, who sows the fruit of murder and pain can not reap joy and love.
Paint with joy – with the same joy that you would make love to a woman.
When a person realizes he has been deeply heard, his eyes moisten. I think in some real sense he is weeping for joy. It is as though he were saying, "Thank God, somebody heard me. Someone knows what it's like to be me.
I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; most miserable the ones who enjoy the least pleasure
The more the heart is sated with joy, the more it becomes insatiable.
The children's laughter sounds loud Bringing back to me Simple joys I once knew .
When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.
Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.
A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live.
Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.
The greatest wisdom is to make the enjoyment of the present the supreme object of life; because that is the only reality, all else being merely the play of thought.
Nobody understands another's sorrow, and nobody another's joy.
True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxiety about the future.
I have drunken deep of joy, And I will taste no other wine tonight.
The soul's joy lies in doing.
The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.
People are constantly clamoring for the joy of life. As for me, I find the joy of life in the hard and cruel battle of life - to learn something is a joy to me.
I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.
Joy can only be real if people look upon their life as a service and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.
primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it.
Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.
Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.
To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.
Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
Oh, privileged mortal you enjoy lifelong honor and perfect ease!