Joy Quotes
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Only those who walk in holiness experience true joy.
Jerry Bridges -
Notice, for example, that people who talk about "the joys of childhood" are always adults. Only an adult, utterly remote from the reality of childhood, could suppose it is time of joys.
Russell Baker
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Tennis, for me, every time I went out on the court, it just gave me such joy to play.
Evonne Goolagong Cawley -
Gloom we have always with us, a rank and sturdy weed, but joy requires tending.
Barbara Holland -
To show too much joy in a place such as this would be unseemly but, as he padded toward her, his tail was extended in a manner which would make wagging possible should all go as expected.
Eva Ibbotson -
Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.
Khalil Gibran -
Recognize joy when it arrives in the plain brown wrappings of everyday life.
Judith Viorst -
I've always had a profound conviction that great music is about joy, even in the face of tragedy.
Simon Rattle
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Working with Ronnie Barker was always a joy and were without doubt some of the best years of my career
David Jason -
I have often thought it would be a blessing if each human being were stricken blind and deaf for a few days during their early adult life. Darkness would make them more appreciative of sight; silence would teach them the joys of sound.
Helen Keller -
Joy is a sign of generosity. When you are full of joy, you move faster and you want to go about doing good to everyone.
Mother Teresa -
His hunger for knowledge gave him no rest, it was both his bane and his joy.
Elizabeth Goudge -
She gave me eyes, she gave me ears; And humble cares, and delicate fears; A heart, the fountain of sweet tears; And love and thought and joy.
William Wordsworth -
What is all this juice and all this joy?
Gerard Manley Hopkins
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For a few minutes the anxiety that tormented him had vanished, leaving his mind as serene as the beauty he looked at. Very lovely, he thought, are the sudden moments of relief that come in the midst of strain, those moments of forgetfulness when we are "teased out of thought" by a bird or a flower or the sight of old roofs in the sun; lovely though so transient, the reversal of those brief moments of misery that visit us even in the midst of joy.
Elizabeth Goudge -
Even though many of us are working very hard at it, we rarely, if ever, experience the joy and peace that are promised in the Bible. So what’s the problem? Perhaps we are still holding the reins of our lives too tightly, afraid to surrender ourselves to God’s Spirit.
Ann Spangler -
In my later years I have looked in the mirror each day and found a happy person staring back. Occasionally I wonder why I can be so happy. The answer is that every day of my life I've worked only for myself and for the joy that comes from writing and creating. The image in my mirror is not optimistic, but the result of optimal behavior.
Ray Bradbury -
The purpose of life is Joy.
Esther Hicks -
Faith comes to intelligence as a light that overflows it with joy and inspires it with a certitude that does away with question.
Etienne Gilson -
It is not your work to make anything happen. It's your work to dream it and let it happen. Law of Attraction will make it happen. In your joy, you create something, and then you maintain your vibrational harmony with it and the Universe must find a way to bring it about. That's the promise of Law of Attraction.
Esther Hicks
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Be your own source of strength and comfort. Believe that you are in love, happy, and fulfilled because you started by feeling that way about yourself, alone. Then the power of being together is amplified and you will experience the kind of joy that you can't begin to imagine. It starts within you and no one else.
Carol Lin -
Joy and openness come from our own contented heart.
Gautama Buddha -
Cooking brings me so much joy. I love everything, down to the execution of the plate to picking out fresh ingredients at the market. It makes me deeply grateful and aware of where our food comes from and how feeding people is another way of saying, "I love you."
Kathryn Budig -
Do not judge men by mere appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin