Joy Resides Quotes & Sayings

And the true realism, always and everywhere, is that of the poets: to find out where joy resides, and give it a voice far beyond singing. For to miss the joy is to miss all. — Robert Louis Stevenson

Through compassion it is possible to recognize that the craving for love that people feel resides also in our own hearts, that the cruelty the world knows all too well is also rooted in our own impulses. Through compassion we also sense our hope for forgiveness in our friends' eyes and our hatred in their bitter mouths. When they kill, we know that we could have done it; when they give life, we know that we can do the same. For a compassionate person nothing human is alien: no joy and no sorrow, no way of living and no way of dying. — Henri J.M. Nouwen

What is a political party but a conspiracy? — Gore Vidal

Whatever the reason, he reluctantly pulls the cushions from the back of my couch. He pauses, looking like he's about to change his mind. Then he slides in behind me. — Susan Ee

My mom listened to the Beatles and Elvis, a lot of different types of music. — Travis Barker

What I say is that the supreme and singular joy of making love resides in the certainty of doing evil. — Charles Baudelaire

Bring peace to the Earth by bringing peace to all those whose lives you touch. Be peace. Feel and express in every moment your Divine Connection with the All, and with every person, place, and thing. Embrace every circumstance, own every fault, share every joy, contemplate every mystery, walk in every man's shoes, forgive every offense (including your own), heal every heart, honor every person's truth, adore every person's God, protect every person's rights, preserve every person's dignity, promote every person's interests, provide every person's needs, presume every person's holiness, present every person's greatest gifts, produce every person's blessing, and pronounce every person's future secure in the assured love of God. Be a living, breathing example of the Highest Truth that resides within you. — Neale Donald Walsch

The woman he had loved most (he was thirty at the time) would tell him (he was nearly in despair when he heard it) that she held on to life by a thread. Yes, she did want to live, life gave her great joy, but she also knew that her 'i want to live' was spun from the threads of a spiderweb. It takes so little, so infinitely little, for someone to find himself on the other side of the border, where everything
love, convictions, faith, history
no longer has meaning. The whole mystery of human life resides in the fact that it is spent in the immediate proximity of, and even in direct contact with, that border, that it is separated from it not by kilometers but by barely a millimeter. — Milan Kundera

After hearing the evidence, I will record a verdict of natural causes. — John Owen

Meditation is not your doing. You simply make the effort, but it is not your doing. Your effort is needed to prepare the ground. As the ground is ready, immediately you see you are no more; the whole cosmos is. You have entered a greater womb, an eternal womb of tremendous peace and ecstasy. — Rajneesh

Experimental evidence has now verified that nuclear reactions can be caused to occur in heavily loaded solids. It is premature to predict where this is headed from an applications point of view, but the basic science is clearly revolutionary. — George H. Miley

Gratitude begins in our hearts and then dovetails into behavior. It almost always makes you willing to be of service, which is where the joy resides. It means that you are willing to stop being such a jerk. When you are aware of all that has been given to you, in your lifetime and the past few days, it is hard not to be humbled, and pleased to give back. — Anne Lamott

Innately within us, resides the Spirit which wants to enlighten you, to give the peace, the bliss and the joy of our being. — Nirmala Srivastava

It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about? — Henry David Thoreau

Writers should find out where joy resides and give it a voice. Every bright word or picture is a piece of pleasure set afloat. The reader catches it, and he goes on his way rejoicing. It's the business of art to send him that way as often as possible. — Nancy Horan

Power remains strong when it remains in the dark; exposed to the sunlight it begins to evaporate. — Samuel P. Huntington

I am awake and witness to the beauty that resides behind you're soulful eyes of intent. Become my impaler. — Truth Devour

I didn't know," I start truthfully, "that it was the hard way when I started on it. — Maggie Stiefvater

It is radically humbling to confess that the source of all our joy resides outside ourselves. — John Piper

The books I would like to print are the books I love to read and keep. — William Morris

No evidence compels the conclusion that the minimum required intake of any vitamin comes close to the optimum intake that sustains good health. — Linus Pauling

There is a gap in between gratitude
and thankfulness
I will meet you there
Where love resides with joy. — Debasish Mridha

Sometimes people change, said a voice inside him.
And sometimes they don't. — Sherry Thomas

According to Greek mythology, humans were originally created with four arms, four legs and a head with two faces. Fearing their power, Zeus split them into two separate parts, condemning them to spend their lives in search of their other halves. — Plato

I remember getting into the plane, and I was kind of fearful. I didn't know why. I just felt like something was going to happen, and we landed and I thought that was interesting because I was just thinking we were going to crash. I just remember my feet touching the ground, and that's all I remember. — Lauren Scruggs