The dew, 'Tis of the tears which stars weep, sweet with joy.
Personally, I have been very impressed by the slow food movement. It is about celebrating the culture of food, of sharing the extraordinary knowledge, developed over millennia, of the traditions involved with quality food production, of the sheer joy and pleasure of consuming food together. Especially within the context of family life, this has to be one of the highest forms of cultural activity.
Lighten grief with hopes of a brighter morrow; Temper joy, in fear of a change of fortune.
For lawless joys a bitter ending waits.
Making peace with one's truth is to live in one’s own moment, moving passionately forward in joy.
Gloom we have always with us, a rank and sturdy weed, but joy requires tending.
Words of divine consciousness: moral exaltation; lasting feelings of elevation, elation, joy; a quickening of the moral sense, which strikes one as more important than an intellectual understanding of things; an alignment of the universe along moral lines, not intellectual ones; a realization that the founding principle of existence is what we call love, which works itself out sometimes not clearly, not cleanly, not immediately, nonetheless ineluctably.
A meal, however simple, is a moment of intersection. It is at once the most basic, the most fundamental, of our life's activities, maintaining the life of our bodies; shared with others it can be an occasion of joy and communion, uniting people deeply.
Being alone in nature is another way to feel the joy of beauty - and oneness with a greater whole.
For me, the joy of doing it is doodling when I want to. But if I had to do it, I'd lose the joy.
The difference between travel writing as fiction is the difference between recording what the eye sees and discovering what the imagination knows. Fiction is pure joy - how sad that I could not reinvent the trip as fiction.
For malice will with joy the lie receive, Report, and what it wishes true believe.
It is our human lot, it is heaven's will, that sorrow follow joy.
What we love once, we love forever. Shall there be joy in heaven over those who repent, yet no forgiveness for them upon earth? --"Wanda
Spiritual life is not dry, it is also exceuted happily, 'susukham'. The result of that is not just happiness, but bliss, spiritual joy.
The right to suffer is one of the joys of a free economy.
I personally admire Steve Jobs not most for what he did, or what he said, but for what he stood for. The largest lesson I learned from Steve was that the joy in life is in the journey, and I saw him live this every day.
Happiness and joy are not the same. For what does the fervent craving for joy mean? It does not mean that we wish at any cost to experience the psychic state of being joyful. We want to have reason for joy, for an unceasing joy that fills us utterly, sweeps all before it, exceeds all measure.
The joy of giving is indeed a pleasure, especially when you get rid of something you don't want.
Singing is best, it gives right joy to speech.