Joy Quotes
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I love being the age I am, because if there's enough pain or grief, I have enough experience now to realize that there's joy coming around the corner.
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While the vaccine discovery was progressive, the joy I felt at the prospect before me of being the instrument destined to take away from the world one of its greatest calamities [smallpox], blended with the fond hope of enjoying independence and domestic peace and happiness, was often so excessive that, in pursuing my favourite subject among the meadows, I have sometimes found myself in a kind of reverie.
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A day to God is a thousand years, Men walk around with a thousand fears. The true joy of love brings a thousand tears, In the world of desire, there's a thousand snares.
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There’s a joy without canker or cark,There’s a pleasure eternally new,’T is to gloat on the glaze and the markOf china that’s ancient and blue.
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Beauty is whatever gives joy.
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When I write my songs, I'm writing about the pain, the joy, and the ridiculousness of being a human.
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My brother told me he was very proud of me, of the business I have built, and that gives me joy.
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I recalled when I worked in the woodsand the bars of Madras, Oregon.That short-haired joy and roughness-America-your stupidity.I could almost love you again.
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To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation, enlightenment.
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At one point the driver said, 'For God's sakes, you're rocking the boat back there.' Actually we were; the car was swaying as Dean and I both swayed to the rhythm and the IT of our final excited joy in talking and living to the blank tranced end of all innumerable riotous angelic particulars that had been lurking in our souls all our lives.
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Minnesotans hate zeal. Zeal is right up there on the list of suspicious emotional behaviors like joy and despair. Always err on the side of blandness.
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Neither poems nor prose just a length of rope just the wet earth – that's the way home. Neither vodka nor bread just bursts of rage just more new graves – that's youth and that's love. Neither sleep nor waking neither joy nor laughter just tears in the night – so the rope, paper, knife.
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I started listening to the Cure around the time I discovered Joy Division and, like Joy Division, they have shaped my taste in all sorts of dark and dreary ways.
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I am not finding pregnancy much of a joy. I am afraid of childbirth, but I am afraid I can't find a way of avoiding it.
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Without order there can be no inner satisfaction. Without inner satisfaction there can be no freedom. Without freedom there is no joy.
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The truth is, I just love to work. I love being on set. I love being around crews. I love being around my fellow actors. Anything that can keep that going is a joy for me.
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To not sing with an orchestra, to not be able to communicate through my voice, which I've done all my life, and not to be able to phrase lyrics and give people that kind of joy, I think I would be totally devastated.
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Air is the very substance of our freedom, the substance of superhuman joy.... aerial joy is freedom.
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Music is such a joy, just an absolute joy.
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And of course, pop music is all about memorability and simplicity and positive messages and a little dash of joy.
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Waiting is not always a bad thing; it can bring its own joy -the thrill of anticipation.
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Nature is bottom up. It's compelling and complex, and it fills me with joy and it's inconsistent with the top down view.
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I don't know if nature is a direct literary influence on my writing, but it is certainly important to me. I take great joy in writing about it. It is something I have taken with me from my childhood; the body exposed to the threat of the physical world and at the same time being at home in it.
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It's an ongoing joy being a dad.
