I adored ‘Breaking The Waves,’ so when Lars von Trier wanted me in ‘Dogville,’ I was beside myself with joy. He works in a way that nobody I’ve ever worked with works.

… joy and sorrow are inseparable. . . together they come and when one sits alone with you . . . remember that the other is asleep upon your bed.

In Sarasota, Florida, Stephen King reminded me of the joy of just writing every day.

She did not find these riches (of fulfillment). They were a gift from God.

Instead of imposing new obligations, (Christians) should appear as people who wish to share their joy, who point to a horizon of beauty and who invite others to a delicious banquet.

A simple truth delivered in kindness may be the impetus that ignites a passionate fire in another’s soul and goes on to become the source of motivation for positive change.

If we want to grow, the way to break a pattern of negativity is to face anything negative with love.

It’s none of your concern what others say or think about you. Your happiness is your own responsibility.

Now, I believe in life, and I believe in the joy of human existence, but these things cannot be experienced except as we also face the despair, also face the anxiety that every human being...

As spiritual searchers we need to become freer and freer of the attachment to our own smallness in which we get occupied with me-me-me. Pondering on large ideas or standing in front of things which...

The moon had never been as bright as the shine it was granting the sky with, committing every moment until sunrise.

We will never have an expiration date. Our love is destined to exist forever.

My heart is beating with joy, my head is filled with song and my soul is intertwined with yours which is where it always belonged.

Only the unprotected self can feel joy.

It is when we develop both our inner man and woman that we find a new harmony and wholeness within ourselves. Healing means to develop and integrate our inner man and woman so that love...

Joy weathers any storm: Happiness rides the waves.

If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today. But that is the most that hope can do for us – to make some hardship lighter. When I think deeply...

They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.

If I can see pain in your eyes then share with me your tears. If I can see joy in your eyes then share with me your smile.

The joy you get from helping other people is hard to come by. Once you’re involved with Angel Flight, it becomes infectious.

The greatest joy that we can awaken to is LIFE because therein lies unlimited JOY, if we so choose.

Most people are about as happy as their self confidence will allow them to be.

I never wanted to be a God fearing person. I wanted to grow up and be a person that was fearless for God. There was a difference.

She felt an enveloping happiness to be alive, a joy made stronger by the certainty that someday it would all come to an end. Afterward she felt a little foolish, and never spoke to anyone...

Then came the healing time, hearts started to shine, soul felt so fine, oh what a freeing time it was.

Only a clever human can make a real Joke about virtue, or indeed about anything else; any of them can be trained to talk as if virtue were funny. Among flippant people the joke is...

Somos tan pequeños como nuestra dicha y tan grandes como nuestro dolor.We are as small as our joy (the sum of all our joys) and as big as our pain (the sum of all our...

Few moments are so special that they should be recognized by special expressions.

Sometimes he wondered if he did these things just to test himself. To see if the feelings had gone. But they had not. When he saw her, he wanted to be with her; when he...

I am one of the new characters in the brand new series of ‘Postman Pat.’ It has been a joy to do.

No more quickly can a person rob you of your joy and peace than when that individual succeeds at making you feel like you’re less than worthy of God as compared to his/her own self....

It’s amazing how people can find all the mistakes in the world concerning another person, but look into the mirror every day without making changes within. Stop looking down your nose at others, What does...

Don’t just leave your footprints in the sand only to be washed away as the ocean waves come crashing to the shore. You want to impact the lives of others in such a way that...

This, then, is true liberty: the joy that comes in doing what is right. At the same time, it is also devoted service in obedience to righteous precept.

Every moment is precious and beautiful, filled with love, joy, peace, tranquility, and serenity.

reality” make you lose faith in God and gain faith in Man. Don’t put your Joy in man because when man leaves, there goes your Joy. The world didn’t give you your joy and the...

Unnatural, unorthodox, amoral: those pretensions crumble when confronted by true happiness. You shouldn’t give another the authority to draw a line defining the boundaries of acceptable joy.

Fresh, solid ideas feel like gifts to writers, therefore every morning is Christmas.

The joy of the Lord is our strength.

Sometimes, it is true, a sense of isolation enfolds me like a cold mist as I sit alone and wait at life’s shut gate. Beyond there is light, and music, and sweet companionship; but I...

Choose joy! Joy is a choice. Joy is a witness. Joy is a therapy. Joy is a habit. If Jesus, who drank so deeply of the world’s sorrow, could be filled with so much fun...

I was alone in that room. Of course, there were bodies all around, but they were all dead. They were dead when I got there. Well, most of them were dead. The last few I...

If you like to fill your life with joyJust be lovingJust be caring And just be kind.

I didn’t expect to recover from my second operation but since I did, I consider that I’m living on borrowed time. Every day that dawns is a gift to me and I take it in...

Love allows us to remember the joy, and forget the pain. That’s why I write things down, to help me remember.

See, unlike most hackers, I get little joy out of figuring out how to install the latest toy.

I love everything that makes up a milieu, the rolling of the carriages and the noise of the workmen in Paris, the cries of a thousand birds in the country, the movement of the ships...

Your trials and difficulties are a golden opportunity for joy.

This joy of discovery is real, and it is one of our rewards. So too is the approval of our work by our peers.

It may be possible to do without dancing entirely. Instances have been known of young people passing many, many months successively, without being at any ball of any description, and no material injury accrue either...