William Butler Yeats Quotes
Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
William Butler Yeats
Quotes to Explore
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I think it's tragic that we have this human capacity, which appears to be hardwired, or so the evolutionary biologists say, for collective joy. We have these techniques for generating it that go back thousands of years, and yet we tend not to use this.
Barbara Ehrenreich
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Real joy seems to me almost as unlike security or prosperity as it is unlike agony.
C. S. Lewis
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Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.
Barbara De Angelis
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I love overcoming challenges and fear.
Laura Wilkinson
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Imaginary obstacles are insurmountable. Real ones aren't.
Barbara Sher
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And as, in ethics, Evil is a consequence of Good, so, in fact, out of Joy is sorrow born. Either the memory of past bliss is the anguish of to-day, or the agonies which are, have their origin in the ecstasies which might have been.
Edgar Allan Poe
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You're water. We're the millstone.
You're wind. We're dust blown up into shapes.
You're spirit. We're the opening and closing
of our hands. You're the clarity.
We're the language that tries to say it.
You're joy. We're all the different kinds of laughing.
Rumi
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I'd say we do reach somewhat of a younger audience, but I think for the most part that younger audience is picking our music up from a brother or sister or even parent, who is turning them onto the band.
Alex Lifeson
Rush
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To be an actor for 30-odd years trying to become recognized, and to end up playing a full prosthetic and a character 3 foot 9', or something like that, is... well, it just shows that you can get actors to do anything.
John Rhys-Davies
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If you make something good and interesting and not ridiculing someone or being offensive, the creators of the original material will like it.
Christian Marclay
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The cheeky ideal I am calling for is that Muslims should be viewed as equal citizens, nothing more and nothing less.
Maajid Nawaz
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Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
William Butler Yeats
