Joy Quotes
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Our new little house Kirchner moved to the Wildboden house is a real joy to us. We shall live here comfortably and in great new order. This will really come to be a turning point of my life. Everything must be put in clear order and the little house furnished as simply and modestly as possible, while still being beautiful and intimate.
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
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What a joy it is to read a book that shocks one into remembering just how high one's literary standards should be.... a tour de force by one of England's best novelists.... Atonement is a spectacular book; as good a novel - and more satisfying... - than anything McEwan has written....sublimely written narrative.... The Dunkirk passage is a stupendous piece of writing, a set piece that could easily stand on its own.
Noah Richler
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Joy and openness come from our own contented heart.
Gautama Buddha
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Lord give me this seeing faith, then my work will never be monotonous. I will find joy in humoring the fancies and gratifying the wishes of all poor sufferers. O beloved sick, how doubly dear you are to me, when you personify Christ; and what a privilege is mine to be allowed to tend you.
Mother Teresa
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My joy in learning is partly that it enables me to teach.
Seneca the Younger
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Joy is prayer; joy is strength, joy is love. God loves a cheerful giver. The best way we can show our gratitude to God and the people is to accept everything with joy.
Mother Teresa
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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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The surest step toward joy in the morning is virtue in the evening.
Russell M. Nelson
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A thing of beauty is a joy till sunrise.
Harvey Fierstein
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This so much joy! This so much joy! If I should fail, what poverty! And yet, as poor as I Have ventured all upon a throw; Have gained! Yes! Hesitated so this side the victory!
Emily Dickinson
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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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I've been riding the carousel in Central Park since I was five years old. If I'm very depressed or if something's bothering me today, my husband, Larry, and I go back to the park. We get on the carousel horse and we start riding, and I start singing at the top of my lungs. It is pure and absolute joy and happiness.
Eda LeShan
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Orphei Drängar possesses a combination of power, energy, and culture. Joy of discovery combined with professional technical and musical prowess.
Esa-Pekka Salonen
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For mankind knows hardly a joy which will surpass that of approval of his work.
Ernest Vincent Wright
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That lovely voice; how I should weep for joy if I could hear it now!
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present.
George Eliot
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Our God is so wonderfully good, and lovely, and blessed in every way that the mere fact of belonging to Him is enough for an untellable fullness of joy!
Hannah Whitall Smith
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Don't feel bad for one moment about doing what brings you joy.
Sarah J. Maas
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Your own tactic is to train yourself in the art of becoming enigmatic to everybody. My young friend, suppose there was no one who troubld himself to guess your riddle--what joy, then, would you have in it?
Soren Kierkegaard
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People who want to manipulate you will fear your joy, because it's not easily controlled.
Bob Goff
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Where the soul is full of peace and joy, outward surrounding and circumstances are of comparatively little account.
Hannah Whitall Smith
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The greatest gift that you could ever give to another is your own happiness, for when you are in a state of joy, happiness, or appreciation, you are fully connected to the stream of pure, positive Source Energy that is truly who you are. And when you are in that state of connection, anything or anyone that you are holding as your object of attention benefits from your attention.
Esther Hicks
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The coming of Jesus at Bethlehem brought joy to the world and to every human heart. may His coming this Christmas bring to each one of us that peace and joy that He desires to give.
Mother Teresa
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The happiness and the joy that I see in the eyes of the children. They saved my life so I want to, give it back. I'm not joking.
Michael Jackson