With a warm drink, in a rocking chair and family and friends around, I am working on finding peace and joy in the moments we have been given. It doesn’t have to all make sense. I don’t have all the answers. – Taya Kyle
You cut off the capacity for grief in your life, and you cut off the joy at the same time. They both come up through the same tunnel. You don’t have one without the other. – William Hurt
We try to connect with the audience as much as we can. We feel the energy from the audience, and it gives us so much joy and inspiration. – Stjepan Hauser
Your intuition will tell you where you need to go; it will connect you with people you should meet; it will guide you toward work that is meaningful for you – work that brings you joy, work that feels right for you. – Shakti Gawain
As a father and grandfather, I have witnessed firsthand the joy of new life entering the world. I know the pain and apprehension that goes along with premature births and birth defects. – Solomon Ortiz
That was the big lesson for all of us. Everything was going great on paper, but we all became miserable because we were so caught up in the machinery of how you make that happen, it took away the sheer joy. – Susanna Hoffs
Each child brings so much joy and hope into the world, and that is reason enough for being here. As you grow older, you will contribute something else to this world, and only you can discover what that is. – Sharon Creech
When you’re playing someone else, it sounds so negative to say you want to erase yourself, but part of the joy of it is you get to not be yourself. – Tavi Gevinson
Am I melancholy? I certainly have moments. I like to think there’s a capacity for joy as well. – Stephen Dillane
The mere existence of ‘Buffy’ proves the declinists wrong about one thing: Hollywood commercialism can produce great art. Complex and evolving characters. Playful language. Joy and sorrow, pathos and elation. Episodes that dare to be different – to tell stories in silence or in song. Big themes and terrible choices. – Virginia Postrel
Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it. – Tom Stoppard
Most humbly, my beloved Saviour, I bow myself before thee. I am a worm and no man. I alone deserve to suffer. I alone shrink from suffering. I was with thee in thy days of joy, singing ‘Hosanna,’ and I wished to make thee King. Now, in thine hour of suffering, I am far from thee. – Vincent McNabb
I was absolutely blown away when I first talked to Lisa Joy and Jonah Nolan at how ambitious they wanted ‘Westworld’ to be in looking at the drives that are leading human beings over the cliff of existence. – Thandie Newton
Musicians from the beginning of time have been there to express the mood and the musical feelings in the air for whatever’s going on in that particular culture. It’s the greatest joy as a musician to be able to translate that, be part of something and watch the scenery around you. – Trey Anastasio
I started thinking about joy. Everything in our society is so purposeful. Let’s bring joy back to the experience. – Sara Blakely
The joy of style lies not in how we look to other people, but in how we look to ourselves – and the most memorable and beautiful outfits are simply those that, in some rare moment of joy, we found the courage to share with the world. – Simon Van Booy
I grew up writing thank-you notes. Real, honest-to-goodness, pen-and-ink, stamped and posted letters. More than simple habit, it’s about what the commitment to expressing your thoughts and feelings in writing says about the character of the writer. About the joy such notes bring to the reader. – Taylor Mali
I don’t allow Hollywood to define my joy, my happiness, and my peace because you’ll be screwed. You have to be very careful. – Tia Mowry
The desert Arab found no joy like the joy of voluntarily holding back. He found luxury in abnegation, renunciation, self restraint. He made nakedness of the mind as sensuous as nakedness of the body. He saved his own soul, perhaps, and without danger, but in a hard selfishness. – T. E. Lawrence
The joy of songwriting only gets messed up if you are trying to follow up a big success, or you are trying to create a hit single, or if you have conscious thoughts of a particular outcome for the music. – Tim Finn
Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures. – Thomas Aquinas
Certainly Dracula did bring a hell of a lot of joy to a hell of a lot of women. And if this erotic quality hadn’t come out we’d have been very disappointed. – Terence Fisher
When the dark days come, many wonderful moments, those will all seem dead and empty to you. It will take practice and even hard work to find the joy sometimes. – Taya Kyle
When I don’t plumb the depths or the opportunities of each day, I don’t have joy. – Victoria Principal
My greatest joy is seeing parents and kids playing Disney ‘Epic Mickey’ together, handing the controllers back and forth, helping each other out. – Warren Spector
Pleasant speech yields joy to all, and observing this, is there any need for unpleasant speech? – Thiruvalluvar