Joy Quotes
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To the scientist there is the joy in pursuing truth which nearly counteracts the depressing revelations of truth.
H. P. Lovecraft -
Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness, is liberty.
Albert Camus
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The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. -
People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.
Iris Murdoch -
I think people need to know that there's great peace and joy in knowing the Lord - the Lord Jesus Christ - as your savior.
Tammy Faye Bakker -
I'm not a Man U fan at all, but I can't get enough of Rooney. What a joy to watch!
Hampton Sides -
When I write, I tend toward melancholy, and the few times that I've tried pure joy in music, it doesn't really work that well. The joy can be through catharsis. I think that's what I do well, and observation.
Michael Stipe R.E.M. -
When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
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Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.
Anatole France -
I'm not gonna give the British Government the joy of keeping taxing me. They don't tax art. And all my cars are just a collection of art.
Jay Kay Jamiroquai -
False expectations take away joy.
Sandra Bullock -
I was four or five, and my mom got all the Power Rangers to come through. I thought it was really them. I started crying tears of joy. It was so amazing. My favorite Power Ranger was the green one. He wasn't in every episode - he was rare, like Based God. He was like the Based God Power Ranger.
Dominique Marquis Cole -
It was far in the sameness of the wood; I was running with joy on the Demon's trail, Though I knew what I hunted was no true god.
Robert Frost -
Overcome any bitterness that may have come because you were not up to the magnitude of the pain entrusted to you. Like the mother of the world who carries the pain of the world in her heart, you are sharing in a certain measure of that cosmic pain, and are called upon to meet it in joy instead of self pity.
Pir Vilayat Khan
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It's the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy.
Fyodor Dostoevsky -
The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations, and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander, to do.
D. H. Lawrence -
When you're playing someone else, it sounds so negative to say you want to erase yourself, but part of the joy of it is you get to not be yourself.
Tavi Gevinson -
I come from big families. My momma was the oldest of three and my daddy was one of six - and I've always loved children. They bring a lot of joy to the world and they make us adults look at things in a better way.
Josh Turner -
A joyful rebellion is you living differently not because you're mad at how things are but because you are swelling with joy at the thought of how things could be. When you joyfully rebel against your circumstances, against mediocrity or negativity, you invite others into something really beautiful.
Brad Montague -
When most people think of Woodrow Wilson, they see a dour minister's son who never cracked a smile, where in fact he was a man of genuine joy and great sadness.
A. Scott Berg
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Peace and war begin at home. If we truly want peace in the world, let us begin by loving one another in our own families. If we want to spread joy, we need for every family to have joy.
Mother Teresa -
My friends and I were wild and we liked to joy-ride.
Aaron Neville -
In truth, I am nothing but a plodding mediocrity — please observe, a plodding mediocrity — for a mere mediocrity does not go very far, but a plodding one gets quite a distance. There is joy in that success, and a distinction can come from courage, fidelity and industry.
Benjamin Cardozo -
If you asked me which gives me more joy, my work or my family, there is no question that it's my family. Hands down. If I had to give one up, it wouldn't even be a contest.
Emily Oster