Joy Quotes
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Am I as spontaneously kind to God as I used to be, or am I only expecting God to be kind to me? Am I full of the little things that cheer His heart over me, or am I whimpering because things are going hardly with me? There is no joy in the soul that has forgotten what God prizes.
Oswald Chambers
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Something that's such a joy in my life every day - cooking - is this incredible, horrific danger to women around the world.
Julia Roberts
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A mentor is someone who allows you to see the hope inside yourself. A mentor is someone who allows you to know that no matter how dark the night, in the morning joy will come. A mentor is someone who allows you to see the higher part of yourself when sometimes it becomes hidden to your own view.
Oprah Winfrey
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Jesus is all the world to me my life, my joy, my all. He is my strength from day to day Without Him, I would fall.
T. B. Joshua
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Black people have always been more than our pain. The joy is so much a part of how we have survived and thrived.
DeRay Mckesson
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I think there's a real joy in going to see movies when you discover them yourself.
Jeff Bridges
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I feel that writers think with their noses to the ground, and the dark stuff kind of comes to me more, even though I really am sort of an upbeat guy. It's an honest descent into darkness. And you can't have the joy without the grief - it's why we listen to Mozart's 'Requiem.'
Andre Dubus III
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Teaching children the joy of honest labor is one of the greatest of all gifts you can bestow upon them.
L. Tom Perry
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Labour without joy is base. Labour without sorrow is base. Sorrow without labour is base. Joy without labour is base.
John Ruskin
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Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.
William Butler Yeats
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We write to tell a story, to describe an event, to imagine or explain what has been or will happen, to warn or touch or inspire. We write to express our most profound emotions—love and hatred, joy and sorrow, humor and sadness.
Sam Barry
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Whenever we are appreciative, we are filled with a sense of well-being and swept up by the feeling of joy.
M. J. Ryan
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I know I could never forgive myself if I elected to live without humane purpose, without trying to help the poor and unfortunate, without recognizing that perhaps the purest joy in life comes with trying to help others.
Arthur Ashe
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How can life be worth living, if devoid Of the calm trust reposed by friend in friend? What sweeter joy than in the kindred soul, Whose converse differs not from self-communion?
Quintus Ennius
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Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
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I have two extraordinary daughters, who, I can say proudly, are doing very well in school and in piano. Daughters are a father's joy.
James McGreevey
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The world is full of a lot of fear and a lot of negativity, and a lot of judgment. I just think people need to start shifting into joy and happiness. As corny as it sounds, we need to make a shift.
Ellen DeGeneres
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God's gift to his sorrowing creatures is a joy worthy of their destiny.
Sebastian Bach
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It is sufficient for you that the one who envies you is distressed at the time of your joy.
Uthman ibn Affan
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We depict hatred, but it is to depict that there are more important things. We depict a curse, to depict the joy of liberation.
Hayao Miyazaki
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Where do I begin? I loved working with Kate Hepburn, which was one of the highlights of my life; Working with Richard Burton in Beckett was another great joy.
Peter O'Toole
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Light is what gives joy to buildings.
Jaquelin T. Robertson
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Land of Heart's Desire Where beauty has no ebb, decay no flood, But joy is wisdom, time an endless song.
William Butler Yeats
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Music expresses longing and love and joy better than any piece of dialogue you can ever write.
Marsha Norman