“I still haven't been able to capture the joy of what it's like when I sing - you know, when I'm by myself, or like when I was a little kid.” KnowsLittlesStillsKidsAbleJoyHavensCaptureLittle Kid Author:Cat Power
“I’ve never understood why we would want to deny all the joys - and the challenges - of marriage to anyone. Which is why I think any loving, committed couple — gay or straight — should be able to get married.” ThinkingWantShouldAbleJoyChallengesCoupleGayMarriedUnderstoodCommittedDeny Author:Al Franken
“It is OK to be happy in life. Even through all the strife, maybe especially during times of great pain and suffering. We still have to be able to stay close to that joy because we can't save the world in a bad mood.” WorldStillsAblePainJoySufferingMoodHappy LifeStrifeSave The WorldPain And SufferingBad Mood Author:Andrew W.K.
“While the steeples are loud in their joy, To the tune of the bells' ring-a-ding, Let us chime in a peal, one and all, For we all should be able to sing Hullah baloo.” ShouldAbleJoyRingsLoudTunesBellsChimesSteeplesBells Ringing Author:Thomas Hood
“It's been an adventure just getting out to Saturn, .. Saturn is such an alluring photographic target. It's a joy, really, to be able to take our images and composite them in an artful way, which is one of my cardinal working goals. It's about poetry and beauty and science all mixed together.” WayAbleTogetherJoyGoalAdventureTargetCardinalsSaturnAlluringComposites Author:Carolyn Porco
“Sorrow is so woven through us, so much a part of our souls, or at least any understanding of our souls that we are able to attain, that every experience is dyed with its color. This is why, even in moments of joy, part of that joy is the seams of ore that are our sorrow. They burn darkly and beautifully in the midst of joy, and they make joy the complete experience that it is. But they still burn.” StillsSoulMomentsAbleJoyUnderstandingColorSorrowMidstWoven Author:Christian Wiman
“Yoga is an ancient discipline in which physical postures, breath practice, meditation, and philosophical study are tools for achieving liberation. In my interpretation, achieving liberation in yoga means learning how to be present with everything that arises, whether it is pain or pleasure, sadness or joy, failure or success. And to be present with whatever arises, I believe we must not only be aware of what is arising but we must also be able to see all things that arise as equal, with detachment.” BelieveMeanAblePainJoyI BelievePleasurePracticeStudyMeditationSadnessAchieveDisciplineEqualYogaToolsAll ThingsPhilosophicalBreathsAncientAriseLiberationInterpretationDetachmentPosture Book:Moving Toward Balance: 8 Weeks of Yoga with Rodney Yee Source: Moving Toward Balance: 8 Weeks of Yoga with Rodney Yee
“Few, as I have said, are the humorists who can induce this state. To master and dissolve us, to give us the joy of being worn down and tired out with laughter, is a success to be won by no man save in virtue of a rare staying-power. Laughter becomes extreme only if it be consecutive. There must be no pauses for recovery. Touch-and-go humour, however happy, is not enough. The jester must be able to grapple his theme and hang on to it, twisting it this way and that, and making it yield magically all manner of strange and precious things.” IfsMenWayGivingSaidStatesEnoughAbleJoyVirtueHumourStrangeMastersLaughterDown AndTiredExtremesRecoveryThemeStayingYieldWornPausesHumoristsPrecious ThingsJesterConsecutiveStaying Power Book:And Even Now Source: And Even Now
“Create all the happiness you are able to create: remove all the misery you are able to remove. Every day will allow you to add something to the pleasure of others, or to diminish something of their pains. And for every grain of enjoyment you sow in the bosom of another, you shall find a harvest in your own bosom; while every sorrow which you pluck out from the thoughts and feelings of a fellow creature shall be replaced by beautiful peace and joy in the sanctuary of your soul.” SoulFeelingsAblePainBeautifulJoyPleasureSorrowCreaturesFellowsAddMiseryYour SoulEnjoymentRemoveGrainReplacedHarvestDiminishBosomsSanctuaryThoughts And FeelingsPluckPeace And Joy Author:Jeremy Bentham
“Joy gives us wings! In times of joy our strength is more vital, our intellect keener, and our understanding less clouded. We seem better able to cope with the world and to find our sphere of influence.” WorldGivingSeemsAbleJoyUnderstandingInfluenceWingsIntellectSpheresJoyfulnessCloudedSphere Of Influence Author:Abdu'l-Bahá
“I think people are at their most creative when they're relaxed. I don't believe that tension is good for creativity. Everyone is relaxed and therefore can feel able to express their own individual creativity and lots of ideas come in. It's a joy like that.” PeopleThinkingFeelsBelieveIdeasAbleJoyIndividualCreativityCreativeDon't BelieveTensionRelaxed Author:Joe Wright
“As an actress, the joy of being able to play the three sides of any woman, which are the glamour, the pragmatic and the one not to be messed with, is pretty glorious.” PlayAbleJoyThreeSidesActressesGloriousGlamourPragmaticThree Sides Author:Victoria Smurfit
“My voice is still the same, and this makes me beside myself with Joy! Oh, mon Dieu, when I think what I might be able to do with it!” ThinkingStillsMightAbleJoyVoice Book:The lost letters of Jenny Lind Source: The lost letters of Jenny Lind