Restlessness and impatience change nothing except our peace and joy. Peace does not dwell in outward things, but in the heart prepared to wait trustfully and quietly on Him who has all things safely in His hands.
Elisabeth ElliotTags: life inspirational peace god patience joy
Today, I demand that a film express either the joy of making cinema or the agony of making cinema. I am not at all interested in anything in between; I am not interested in all those films that do not pulse.
François TruffautPure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
Leo TolstoyAll joy... emphasizes our pilgrim status; always reminds, beckons, awakens desire. Our best havings are wantings.
C.S. LewisShe was crouched in the corner of the room, eating something off the floor. It was the old woman dressed in endless black. When she looked up this time there was no question she was there for me. She had the face of my mother but much older, her ancient decayed mouth coming closer for her good-night kiss. I steeled myself against her putrid smell, the mouthful of bitter dust, but as her lips touched mine it was like biting into a purple black plum whose fruit was brilliant red, like an explosion of intense joy. Its childhood smell wrinkled my nose with pleasure, its sweet juices ran down my chin, turning into a beautiful black ocean where I floated safely, not lost as I had imagined, but securely tucked away deep in space.
Mary WoronovTags: death joy space ocean plum
Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.
Pope John Paul IITags: christianity religion joy spirituality depression easter
And Priests in black gowns, were walking their rounds,
And binding with briars, my joys
Tags: love religion joy desire
The essence of life is not in the great victories and grand failures, but in the simple joys.
Jonathan Lockwood HuieIn my own worst seasons I've come back from the colorless world of despair by forcing myself to look hard, for a long time, at a single glorious thing: a flame of red geranium outside my bedroom window. And then another: my daughter in a yellow dress. And another: the perfect outline of a full, dark sphere behind the crescent moon. Until I learned to be in love with my life again. Like a stroke victim retraining new parts of the brain to grasp lost skills, I have taught myself joy, over and over again(15).
Barbara KingsolverTags: life love joy dark rebirth times kingsolver barbara high taught tide tucson
Joy must be one of the pivots of our life. It is the token of a generous personality. Sometimes it is also a mantle that clothes a life of sacrifice and self-giving. A person who has this gift often reaches high summits. He or she is like sun in a community.
Mother TeresaTags: joy
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