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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Today, women make up about half our workforce. But they still make 77 cents for every dollar a man earns. That is wrong, and in 2014, it’s an embarrassment. Women deserve equal pay for equal work.
Barack Obama
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If it wasn't for baseball, I'd be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.
Babe Ruth
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It's becoming clearer and clearer to me that the world is there to be celebrated by writers, and in fact this is what all the good ones do, and that the great fashion for gloom and grimness was in fact a false path that certain writers took, I think in response to the horrors of the first half of the twentieth century.
Martin Amis
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For there 's nae luck about the house, There 's nae luck at a'; There 's little pleasure in the house When our gudeman 's awa'.
William Julius Mickle
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The intelligence of cinema-goers should be respected.
Akkineni Nagarjuna
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Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
William Butler Yeats