Joy Quotes
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Joy is not the result of getting what you want; it is the way to get what you want. In the deepest sense, joy is what you want.
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Everything is a battlefield. If you fight with anger, you are part of the problem. If you fight with joy, you're part of the solution.
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I have always been a great believer that women should support women, and my admiration goes out to mothers everywhere, as they constantly put their own needs behind those of their children, embracing daily uncertainties and entering the new uncharted territories that each day brings, to be, in return, rewarded with joy and unending love.
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It's your life... why not fill it with as much joy as possible?
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Loving and parenting a dog as a single parent can create all sorts of new and unusual problems, but also new sources of joy.
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We didn't play any Joy Division songs for 10 years after the start of New Order, which was a very honourable thing to do even if it meant shooting ourselves in the foot.
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I do not mind having written the song at all. I just wish that I had written it in a different key, as the high d is hard to play. I am glad that I wrote something that brought joy to millions of people.
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I'm sure there was some part of his soul was intrinsically happy, but he probably had to go through some permutations to really get that to blossom. I'm sure Dad had his challenges, but I think that joy was there from the beginning and he had to find a way to make his life support that and express that.
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Joy is our goal, our destiny. We cannot know who we are except in joy. Not knowing joy, we do not know ourselves.
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If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive.
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Ultimately, the joy of sports is social and psychological, both in the ballpark and around a television on Super Bowl Sunday.
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There's this joy that comes from sitting down to solve a problem and standing up when it's done and good. Building a company or managing people is never just done.
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Before the reward there must be labor. You plant before you harvest. You sow in tears before you reap joy.
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The joy of puppetry is that it is very simple and low-fi, which I love.
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Beauty comes first. Victory is secondary. What matters is joy.
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When you ask most American parents why they want to have kids, it's to bring more joy into their lives. So, when you don't feel that all-encompassing joy, it must be that something is wrong with you. I think it's dissatisfaction that the expectation was different than the reality.
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Know the joy of life by piling good deed on good deed until no rift or cranny appears between them.
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The most reliable joy is to be out of doors, to be a creature among other creatures. I find it very restful.
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...Wisdom says: be strong! Then canst thou bear more joy. Be not animal; refine thy rapture! If thou drink, drink by the eight and ninety rules of art: if thou love, exceed by delicacy; and if thou do aught joyous, let there be subtlety therein!
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Has joy any survival value in the operations of evolution? I suspect that it does; I suspect that the morose and fearful are doomed to quick extinction. Where there is no joy there can be no courage; and without courage all other virtues are useless.
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As long as I breathe I hope. As long as I breathe I shall fight for the future, that radiant future, in which man, strong and beautiful, will become master of the drifting stream of his history and will direct it towards the boundless horizons of beauty, joy and happiness!
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I am deeply spiritual; I revel in those things that make for good - the things that we can do to shed a little light, to help place an oft-dissonant universe back in tune with itself... Long live art, long live friendship, long live the joy of life!
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A mother's pride, a father's joy.
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The violence of either grief or joy, their own enactures with themselves destroy.
