Joy Quotes
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I get a sick joy out of bad reviews. I don't read good reviews.
Evan Goldberg -
With satanic joy in his face, the black-haired Jewish youth lurks in wait for the unsuspecting girl whom he defiles with his blood, thus stealing her from her people.
Adolf Hitler
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A Dionysian life task needs the hardness of the hammer and one of its first essentials is without doubt the joy to be found even in destruction.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
Communion with Christ gives us our strength, our joy, and our love.
Mother Teresa -
I do not teach children, I give them joy.
Isadora Duncan -
Of all the joys that lighten suffering earth, what joy is welcomed like a new born child?
Caroline Norton -
There are such wonderful blessings in my life - I have this amazing baby, an amazing family, and I loved X Factor - all these moments of joy, and then these sharp drop-offs. I'd be awake, lying in bed, crying. There's these weird moments of misplaced anger I have.
Ayda Field -
Some say writing is its own reward. I write for money, but writing for money is not so bad, especially when that writing brings you joy.
Eloisa James
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It's my destiny to make a place where people can come and be happy: a garden of joy.
Niki de Saint Phalle -
A promise, a bond, a joy, a love for the ages, for the history books.…But what was love but pain?
Melissa de la Cruz -
Christ always calls us to life and constantly to greater joy, but rarely does He call us to comfort.
Mark Hart Crowded House -
To be spiritually alive is to live in repentance. Spiritually dead are those Christians who never weep over their sins or who have long ceased to do so. Dead - in God's eyes - are those Christians who can no longer rejoice over God's forgiveness. Whenever this joy is missing, even if we may call ourselves committed Christians, there is something wrong in our lives.
Basilea Schlink -
Blessed be those souls who are glad! They are a salve for sorrow and fatigue. A sun in days of darkness, a joy in sorrow, a ray of heaven shining through the uncertainness of earth.
Candace Wheeler -
Her joy with him was like nothing she had ever experienced. His love for her felt like a miracle.
Elizabeth Chandler
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Give me a moment, because I like to cry for joy. It's so delicious, John dear, to cry for joy.
Charles Dickens -
Here was life, gently reminding her that she could care again. That her grief was allowed, but so was her joy.
Courtney Milan -
Performance art is about joy, about making something that's so full of kind of a wild joy that you really can't put into words.
Laurie Anderson -
It is much better to be drawn by the joys of heaven, than driven by the sorrows of earth.
Charles Henry Mackintosh -
Balance, peace, and joy are the fruit of a successful life.
Thomas Kinkade -
He remembered enthusiasm, hope, and a kind of jubilation or exultation. Cheerfulness, yes, and joviality, and the brief gratification of sex. Gladness, too, fullness of heart, appreciation, and many other emotions. But not joy. No, that belonged to simpler minds.
Evan S. Connell
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He's like a child, but without a child's capacity for joy.
Eva Heller -
Dignity and quiet joy in all that we do are the expression of perfect concentration and perfect wisdom.
Gautama Buddha -
Traditional corporations, particularly large-scale service and manufacturing businesses are organized for efficiency. Or consistency. But not joy. Joy comes from surprise and connection and humanity and transparency and new...If you fear special requests, if you staff with cogs, if you have to put it all in a manual, then the chances of amazing someone are really quite low.
Seth Godin -
I think I have fallen in love and I believe the woman in question, though she has not said so, returns my feelings. How can I be sure when she has said nothing? Is this youthful vanity? I wish in some ways that it were. But I am so convinced that I barely need question myself. This conviction brings me no joy.[…]I am driven by a greater force than I can resist. I believe that force has its own reason and its own morality even if they may never be clear to me while I am alive.
Sebastian Faulks