Elizabeth Prentiss Quotes
Joy emerges from sorrow, and soars on wings far more beautiful than any earthly analogy can paint.
Elizabeth Prentiss
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Truly, love is delightful and pleasant food, supplying, as it does, rest to the weary, strength to the weak, and joy to the sorrowful. It in fact renders the yoke of truth easy and its burden light.
Saint Bernard
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We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone - but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.
Walter Anderson
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Raising kids is part joy and part guerrilla warfare.
Ed Asner
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Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons, a possession for all eternity.
Oscar Wilde
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Sorrow lies like a heartbeat behind everything I have written.
P. L. Travers
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I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.
C. S. Lewis
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Then said a Second - 'Ne'er a peevish Boy Would break the Bowl from which he drank in joy, And He that with his hand the Vessel made Will surely not in after Wrath destroy'.
Omar Khayyam
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Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, And in their pleasure takes joy, even as though 'twere his own. Not in the morning alone, not only at mid-day he charmeth; Even at setting, the sun is still the same glorious planet.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I ain't a killer, but don't push me Revenge is like the sweetest joy next to gettin' pussy.
Tupac Shakur
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'In the light, the earth remains our first and our last love. Our brothers are breathing under the same sky as we; justice is a living thing. Now is born that strange joy which helps one live and die, and which we shall never again postpone to a later time.'
Albert Camus
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It appears to me impossible that I should cease to exist, or that this active, restless spirit, equally alive to joy and sorrow, should be only organized dust.
Mary Wollstonecraft
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There are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind them when they go.
Jean Paul
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The objects you decide to keep, the ones that gave you the spark of joy? Treasure them from now on. When you put things away, you can actually audibly say, 'Hey, thank you for the good work today...' By doing so, it becomes easier for you to put the objects away and treasure them, which prolongs the spark of joy environment.
Marie Kondo
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The noise is so loud that birds, waves, and people are silenced by the frantic roar of morons screaming and tearing back and forth, back and forth, devastating the peace of a quiet day at the beach and the joy of fellow boatmen on the water.
Katharine Hepburn
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I couldn't love a movie much more than 'Dazed and Confused.' I would argue that 'Dazed and Confused: The Series' would have been very much like 'Freaks and Geeks.' And that died a painful death because it was too good.
Rob Thomas
Matchbox Twenty
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I understand the frustration provoked by our broken immigration system. But 50 state immigration policies are just a recipe for more chaos.
Luis Gutierrez
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I wonder how Jon Stewart is doing right now. I just ... I hope he's happy.
Haley Webb
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Joy emerges from sorrow, and soars on wings far more beautiful than any earthly analogy can paint.
Elizabeth Prentiss
