Pastoral Resources

If the machines can take the drudgery out of it and just leave us with the joy of drawing, then that's the best of both worlds - and I'll use those computers!

Those who remain unmoved by the wind of joy silently follow the Path.

All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.

Gratitude changes the pangs of memory into a tranquil joy.

Don't look for obscure formulas or mystery in my work. It is pure joy that I offer you. Look at my sculptures until you see them. Those closest to God have seen them.

Sure, I get the blues. But what I try to do, is apply joy to the blues, you know? I don't know if it's a technique, or just being bent that way, being raised by the folks I was raised by.

The quietest poetry can be an explosion of joy.

The most astonishing joy is to receive from the muses the gift of a whole lyric.

When I'm on stage, I'm trying to do one thing: bring people joy. Just like church does. People don't go to church to find trouble, they go there to lose it.

There is no glory in star or blossom till looked upon by a loving eye; There is no fragrance in April breezes till breathed with joy as they wander by.

There may be Peace without Joy, and Joy without Peace, but the two combined make Happiness.

The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.

To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.

To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.

We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they speak or act. Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them.

We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.

Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too.

Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize.

I cannot sleep - great joy is as restless as great sorrow.

Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all - that has been my religion.