William Butler Yeats Quotes
Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
William Butler Yeats
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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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Women are, I think, moved by the idea that self-sacrifice is noble and can be the source of great joy.
Eric Metaxas
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Alice Munro is an atomic writer blasting doors into narrative time.
David Means
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Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the gods; desired by those who have no part in him, and precious to those who have the better part in him.
Plato
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It was somewhere in doing the last season of 'Leverage' that John Rogers and I became confident that we had developed an all-new production technique where we could put more on the screen with very little money. So we started to get more comfortable with the idea of trying to tackle 'The Librarians.'
Dean Devlin
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Music touches our innermost being, and in that way produces new life, a life that gives exaltation to the whole being, raising it to that perfection in which lies the fulfillment of man's life.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
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Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
William Butler Yeats