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
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
Raising kids is part joy and part guerrilla warfare.
Ed Asner
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
Sorrow lies like a heartbeat behind everything I have written.
P. L. Travers
I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.
C. S. Lewis
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
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
I ain't a killer, but don't push me Revenge is like the sweetest joy next to gettin' pussy.
Tupac Shakur
'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
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
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
I'm sure there was some part of his soul was intrinsically happy, but he probably had to go through some permutations to really get that to blossom. I'm sure Dad had his challenges, but I think that joy was there from the beginning and he had to find a way to make his life support that and express that.
Jennifer Grant
I listen mostly to classical music.
Alexandra Fuller
In my view, I am often immensely rich, not in money, but (although just now perhaps not all the time) rich because I have found my metier, something I can devote myself to heart and soul and that gives inspiration and meaning to my life.
Vincent Van Gogh
It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.
Simone de Beauvoir
Joy emerges from sorrow, and soars on wings far more beautiful than any earthly analogy can paint.
Elizabeth Prentiss
