Pastoral Resources

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.

Pleasure usually takes the form of me and now; joy is us and always.

Raising kids is part joy and part guerilla warfare.

There is no joy so great as that of reporting that a good play has come to town.

I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own.

Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices - today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it.

Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You can't put on make-up, or dress yourself, or do you hair with any sort of fun or joy if you're doing it from a position of correction.

In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.

The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love. What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork.

It is my hope that during my brief passage through this universe, that I may share with you the joy of hearing the music of the stars... knowing that the composer was from a distant place and the songs were written eons ago, which now fall gently on this place for all to hear.

Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.

Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.

It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion; it is a joy of every moment.

I don't quite jump for joy, but I am awfully glad to see him.

I am not finding pregnancy much of a joy. I am afraid of childbirth, but I am afraid I can't find a way of avoiding it.

Nothing gives me quite so much joy as when people tell me they've had their pets spayed or neutered.

It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us; in joy we face the storm and defy it.

A garden must combine the poetic and he mysterious with a feeling of serenity and joy.

I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.