Joy Quotes
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There is nothing more marvelous than doing something you love to do and getting paid for it. It ceases to become work, money, and effort; and it becomes fun, your expression of the joy of life.
Stuart Wilde
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Since you types wouldn't be happy unless you're unhappy, I wouldn't dare try to take your joy away by solving your problems.
Bill Willingham
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Living meaningfully is what brings joy.
Marianne Williamson
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The Master said, “What a worthy man was Yan Hui! Living in a narrow alley, subsisting upon meager bits of rice and water—other people could not have borne such hardship, and yet it never spoiled Hui’s joy. What a worthy man was Hui!” (Analects 6.11)
Confucius
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This radiant weather, when mere living is a joy, and sitting still over the fire out of the question, has been going on for more than a week.
Elizabeth von Arnim
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A little quiet reflection will remind me that yes to God always leads in the end to joy.
Elisabeth Elliot
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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
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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
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May your heart open.
May joy emerge.
May love flow through you.
May you heal and help others.
Charlene Costanzo
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The sneer is gone from Casey's lip, his teeth are clenched in hate;
He pounds with cruel violence his bat upon the plate.
And now the pitcher holds the ball, and now he lets it go,
And now the air is shattered by the force of Casey's blow.
Oh, somewhere in this favored land the sun is shining bright;
The band is playing somewhere, and somewhere hearts are light,
And somewhere men are laughing, and somewhere children shout;
But there is no joy in Mudville, mighty Casey has struck out.
Ernest Thayer
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Follow not after the vain, understand the ills of sense pleasures. One who is vigilant and meditative, obtains deep joy.
Gautama Buddha
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The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.
Eudora Welty
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This joy that He brings us transcends every human trial, it is a joy that can strengthen even the weakest of hands.
Brenton Brown
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The living word awakened my soul, gave it light, hope, joy, set it free!
Helen Keller
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The Scythians take kannabis seed, creep in under the felts, and throw it on the red-hot stones. It smolders and sends up such billows of steam-smoke that no Greek vapor bath can surpass it. The Scythians howl with joy in these vapor-baths, which serve them instead of bathing, for they never wash their bodies with water.
Herodotus
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What keeps me motivated to create new music is the joy of songwriting. The joy of being creative. The joy of writing a poem or essay. Writing anything. I just love writing, whether it is music or words. I just didn't need to share it for the last 18 years. When you share it, it brings on other things, which is good.
Nick Heyward
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When I act I try to express the suffering or joy I've known during my lifetime.
Ethel Waters
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Oh who can tell the range of joy or set the bounds of beauty?
Sara Teasdale
