Joy Quotes
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All beautiful and noble qualities have been united in me... I shall be the fruit which will leave eternal vitality behind even after its decay. How great must be your joy, therefore, to have given birth to me.
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I'm filled with a new joy mixed with old grief.
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We have often had this particular exchange about climate and landscape and why we both feel so lonely here uprooted. It was what each of us had wanted of course.Besides wanting to experience a place we hated, we wanted to be insomniacs and loners, losers and drop-outs. To know the sky was the only location of meaning and joy left to us.
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Prepare for mirth, for mirth becomes a feast.
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Pools of sorrow waves of joy are drifting thorough my open mind possessing and caressing...
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Behind joy and laughter there may be a temperament, coarse, hard and callous. But behind sorrow there is always sorrow. Pain, unlike pleasure, wears no mask. ... For this reason there is no truth comparable to sorrow. There are times when sorrow seems to me to be the only truth. Other things may be illusions of the eye or the appetite, made to blind the one and cloy the other, but out of sorrow have the worlds been built, and at the birth of a child or a star there is pain.
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There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road thereto.
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The blessing of my mother is that she is so interested, she is so bright, she never complains - the joy of the Lord just bubbles out of her. Anybody who's in her presence is blessed to be there.
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What I know for sure is that you feel real joy in direct proportion to how connected you are to living your truth.
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Work is a wonderful regulator of mind and body. I forget all sorrow, grief, bitterness, and I even ignore them altogether in the joy of working.
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Yes, all my illusions will burn into illumination of joy, and all my desires ripen into fruits of love.
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The only true measure of success is the amount of joy we are feeling.
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I'm from New Orleans, which is all about direct engagement out in the street with all the parades and Mardi Gras Indians and jazz funerals. I'm trying to take that and put it into my generation, a group that doesn't have enough joy and celebration in their lives.
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Just follow your joy. Always. I think that if you do that, life will take you on the course that it's meant to take you.
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In a sense, we are better prepared to praise God than the angels are, for angels have never known the joy of redemption.
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When I read out loud in class, it was a joy for everyone else because I would mispronounce things so badly. I used to try to count how many people were in front of me and then work out which paragraph I would have to read out and start trying to learn it. And I would sit there thinking, 'Please let the bell go so that it doesn't get round to me.'
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When Kate was born, she was born into a world of joy and happiness and confidence. The difference between the children is night and day. She's happy, she's thriving, she's full of self-confidence. I tell her she's beautiful every day before I send her off to school.
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Only by living at the edge of death can you understand the indescribable joy of life.
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There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.
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'Hudson Valley Ballers' is just the joy of my life.
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The Prince, charmed with these words, and much more with the manner in which they were spoken, knew not how to show his joy and gratitude; he assured her that he loved her better than he did himself.
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Torment in the dark was the danger that I feared, and it did not hold me back. But I would not have come, had I known the danger of light and joy. Now I have taken my worst wound in this parting, even if I were to go this night straight to the Dark Lord. Alas for Gimli son of Glóin!
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We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us.
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Life is a tragedy full of joy.
