Innocent Joy Quotes

#1. Let us never be afraid of innocent joy; God is good and what he does is well done; resign yourself to everything, even happiness; ask for the spirit of sacrifice, of detachment, of renunciation, and above all, for the spirit of joy and gratitude.

Henri Frederic Amiel

#2. Nothing exposes religion more to the reproach of its enemies than the worldliness and half-heartedness of the professors of it.

Matthew Henry

#3. Isn't it wonderful that our bodies can give us so much pleasure? he said to her once, quite simply. They were happy and radiantly innocent. They were both incapable of the conception that joy is sin.

Ayn Rand

#4. There are few finer or more innocent pleasures than talking books to one who knows. There may be joy in heaven- I am told there is- but the evidence is not conclusive, and I'll take mine here in my library.

A. Edward Newton

#5. They still live. They breathe, they love each other, they find joy in the world around them for no other reason than because they are children. They are resilient. They will always rise above. Always. It is a curious facet of the innocent young.

Amelia Fisher

#6. The joy of success outweighs whatever negativity you might get from failing a couple of times.

Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

#7. Give up all self, all egotisms get out of anger, lust, give all to God. "I am not, but Thou art; the old man is all gone, only Thou remainest." "I am Thou." Blame none; if evil comes, know the Lord is playing with you and be exceeding glad.

Swami Vivekananda

#8. I think part of it is the fact that they were kind of the first of its kind - there weren't a lot of cartoons for adults. People forget at the time that The Simpsons started out, it was controversial - the fact that they said "hell" and "damn" in a cartoon was a lot. America was in an uproar.

Eric Andre

#9. MY REGRETS ARE ABOUT THE PEOPLE I COULDN'T SAVE - Marines, soldiers, my buddies. I still feel their loss. I still ache for my failure to protect them.

Chris Kyle

#10. I am going to destroy everything you love.

Sarah J. Maas

#11. A soul-based workplace asks things of me that I didn't even know I had. It's constantly telling me that I belong to something large in the world.

David Whyte

#12. I wonder about prisoners. They're told, "You are free, you are innocent, you can go anywhere." I'm sure they usually feel nothing. They don't burst into tears or hysterics or joy or "I told you so." It's nothing. To be on the straight path isn't a bloody thing. It's just ordinary.

Diana Vreeland

#13. And when Paul dove to embrace me, the look on his face was one of absolute, perfect joy - the kind of joy that can't be reproached, stolen, or marred - the kind that only the innocent or the ignorant are capable of experiencing.

Tiffanie DeBartolo

#14. Talking to oneself, I have often thought, is the best way to be sure of intelligent and witty conversation.

Grant Morrison

#15. There was something appealing in thinking of a character with a secret life that her author knew nothing about. Slipping off while the author's back was turned, to find love in her own way. Showing up just in time to deliver the next bit of dialogue with an innocent face.

Karen Joy Fowler

#16. On the one occasion where I did try writing a screenplay, I found the rewriting just unendurable.

Alan Moore

#17. Man is more himself, man is more manlike, when joy is the fundamental thing in him, and grief the superficial. Melancholy should be an innocent interlude, a tender and fugitive frame of mind; praise should be the permanent pulsation of the soul.

G.K. Chesterton

#18. Food is medicine! We have forgotten that!

Daphne Oz

#19. There was no point in telling my father. He'd never let me quit after only one day. He couldn't help me and he'd make some terrible blunder if he tried. Parents are too innocent for the Boschian landscapes of middle school.

Karen Joy Fowler

#20. The road might seem long,
But the joy of arriving makes it all worth it.
All I have to do is be strong.

Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

#21. A seagull flying beautifully is heaven; a seagull hunting an innocent fish is hell! Existence is heaven and hell, joy and horror!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#22. And this also," said Marlow suddenly, "has been one of the dark places of the earth.

Joseph Conrad

#23. We teach children how to measure and how to weigh. We fail to teach them how to revere, how to sense wonder and awe.

Harold S. Kushner