What is an Extraordinary Life? A life of meaning, a magnificent life, a life of joy, happiness, love, passion, success, and fulfillment. Life experienced on your terms.
Admit to your contentment so it can tip over into joy.
Showing joy by jumping up and down and clapping goes away at some point between pre-school and being old enough to go to orgies.
Beauty is not a concept. It is the animal joy of the mind.
Joy doesn't exist in the world, it exists in us.
My personal prayer is simply my joy to be alive, and to live in gratitude and generosity.
There is the joy of being healthy and fair, but there is overall the beauty, the immense joy of being useful.
Your vocation lies in the intersection of the world's deep need and your deep joy.
The only thing that really teaches one what life's about the joy of understanding, the joy of coming in contact with what life really signifies - is suffering, affliction.
Cynicism is fear posing as confidence; joy is hope let off the leash.
We have much to do together. Let us do it in wisdom and love and joy. Let us make this the human experience.
Just by gazing upon her face... No matter how weary you are, you will feel happy, deep inside your heart, you will feel a warmth This is a "piece of joy" This is all the happiness you need. Normally, we call this "love".
The Art of Fulfillment is the ability to experience not only the thrill of the chase, but also the magic of the moment, the unbridled joy of feeling truly alive.
It's like never hearing a Joy Division album or something. I'm finally watching Twin Peaks, and I'm so into it.
The main joy I have in owning or being a part of my own label is the platform I've created to really push other artists and this other kind of musical muscle I get to exercise, it's not just me as a creator of music but me as a curator. That's been really exciting and I do get to have the autonomy and control and all those things with my releases, but now I get to go and find artists that I really love and like and share them with the world too.
Ultimately, we live in the face of an irresolvable mystery about our origin and, for that matter, about our end. And what Schleiermacher would have us do is (a) acknowledge that this is the case and (b) accept it as something positive, a point of departure for a life of trusting joy.
Dr. Paul Ekman, who worked in San Francisco - still does - which is where Pixar Animation Studios is, he had early in his career identified six. That felt like a nice, manageable number of guys to design and write for. It was anger, fear, sadness, disgust, joy and surprise.
Things get better when Joy hears about a televised way to sell products and makes a connection with QVC. She convinces an executive there, played by Bradley Cooper, to let her appear as herself.
And the joy of my job - and it's really true - is that it's constantly evolving and changing.
And if you can come through that and still have some connection to your joy you felt when you were a child that's a very mature kind of a joy that I find inspiring. And Jennifer Lowrence has all that in her, and I've watched her have to go through it even in the last few years.
Whenever I do get to work with John Barrowman, it is absolutely a joy. We just crack each other up.
When people come in the door and they have something, discovering and exploring the character is a real joy.
People who have little, but much joy, inspire me.
I hadn't made that movie before and when I ever met the real Joy Mangano, which happened because De Niro insisted we meet her and her father, that's what she felt like to us. She impressed us with her quiet, serene authority with herself.
"Joy" is based, albeit loosely, on the life of Joy Mangano, an entrepreneur, inventor and QVC shopping network star with the mega-selling Miracle Mop. Jennifer Lawrence is excellent as Joy, but the film starts off on the wrong foot with woeful depictions of her background as the only sane person in her dysfunctional family.
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