Joy Quotes
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Joy was a flame in me Too steady to destroy. Lithe as a bending reed, Loving the storm that sways her
Sara Teasdale
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Joy is very infectious; therefore, be always full of joy!
Mother Teresa
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Living meaningfully is what brings joy.
Marianne Williamson
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Poetry cannot afford to lose its fundamentally self-delighting inventiveness, its joy in being a process of language as well as a representation of things in the world.
Seamus Heaney
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Life is all about toiling and labor. But obviously I get great joy in confronting challenge and taking risk.
Sufjan Stevens
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What we have to realize is that when the inner voice gives us guidance, it's always going to be for our highest good - and it's always going to bring us more joy than we think.
Echo Bodine
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Color is joy. One does not think joy. One is carried by it.
Ernst Haas
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“Sometimes it is a great joy just to listen to someone we love talking.”
Vincent McNabb
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Ecstasy is not simply joy. Ecstasy is an emotion of great complexity that hovers almost on the edge of terror sometimes.
Terence McKenna
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Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
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The Gospel is nothing less than laughter and joy.
Martin Luther
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May we all soon go about as our real selves and take joy in it, saying, yes, yes, to whatever we are.
Carol Emshwiller
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It's when I let myself get little that I tumble head over heels into joy.
Thomas Kinkade
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I love to go and mingle with the young In the gay festal room--when every heart Is beating faster than the merry tune, And their blue eyes are restless, and their lips Parted with eager joy, and their round cheeks Flush'd with the beautiful motion of the dance.
Nathaniel Parker Willis
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I was for ever making plans, and if nothing came of them, what did it matter? The mere making had been a joy.
Elizabeth von Arnim
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I have a low tolerance for mediocrity in music and life. I'm into pain and joy and the in-between doesn't interest me.
Steve Earle
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Your work is to go forth into this physical environment looking for things that are a vibrational match to joy, connecting to Source Energy, and then following with the inspired action.
Esther Hicks
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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
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We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.
Helen Keller
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Sweets with sweets war not, joy delights in joy.
William Shakespeare
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Such joy ambition finds.
John Milton
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And what if thou, sweet May, hast known Mishap by worm and blight; If expectations newly blown Have perished in thy sight; If loves and joys, while up they sprung, Were caught as in a snare; Such is the lot of all the young, However bright and fair.
William Wordsworth
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Only union with you gives joy. The rest if tearing down one building to put up another.
Rumi
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Everyone will clearly be a bit nervous and scared before going onstage. But what I do is just remember that this is my passion. Once I get on the stage and see everyone smiling and looking at me, the joy that it brings to me makes me forget all about my nerves.
Anthony Gonzalez