Joy Quotes
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You get more joy out of the giving to others, and should put a good deal of thought into the happiness you are able to give.
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Read this and thought of you: Through joy and through sorrow, I wrote. Through hunger and through thirst, I wrote. Through good report and through ill report, I wrote. Through sunshine and through moonshine, I wrote. What I wrote it is unnecessary to say.
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When news of the first plane's hitting the World Trade Center reached them, bin Laden's followers exploded with joy. But shrewder members of al-Qaeda and the Taliban leadership in Afghanistan realized that the attacks might not be the stunning victory that bin Laden, and many in the West, took them to be.
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The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.
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Many do not understand how precarious Western civilization is and what a joy it is. From it, we get real democracy. From it, we get the sort of intellectual tolerance that allows me to propound something that may be completely alien to you.
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The leaf, still green, must someday fall such grief and joy to live at all.
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Some would rather pull a handcart across the prairie than bring up the subject of faith and religion to their friends and co-workers. They worry about how they might be perceived or how it might harm their relationship. It doesn't need to be that way because we have a glad message to share, and we have a message of joy.
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Whatsoever Venus bids Is a joy excelling, Never in an evil heart Did she make her dwelling.
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When I look back at those pictures of my mother performing - and listen to her recordings - it makes me sad to think that all of that joy she found in her work came to an end. I wish she hadn't had to make that sacrifice, even if it was for the benefit of my father and siblings and me.
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I wish you all the joy that you can wish.
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A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.
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The true joy of a moonlit night is something we no longer understand. Only the men of old, when there were no lights, could understand the true joy of a moonlit night.
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Men are not put into this world to be everlastingly played on by the harping fingers of joy.
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We are chosen for joy. However hard the Christian way, it is both in the traveling and in the goal, the way of joy.
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If anyone should want to know my name, I am called Leah. And I spend all my time weaving garlands of flowers with my fair hands, t o please me when I stand before the mirror; my sister Rachel sits all the day long before her own, and never moves away. She loves to contemplate her lovely eyes; I love to use my hands to adorn myself: her joy is in reflection, mine in act.
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Writing and drawing comics for the sheer joy of it - that's true bliss.
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The greatest joy of a thinking man is to have searched the explored and to quietly revere the unexplored.
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The greatest joys of life are happy memories. Your job is to create as many of them as possible.
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I know that nothing comes to pass but what God appoints; our fate is decreed, and things do not happen by chance, but every man's portion of joy and sorrow is predetermined.
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Woman is the Sunday of man: not his repose only, but his joy; the salt of his life.
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What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations ... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.
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There is no joy so great as that of reporting that a good play has come to town.
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I didn't suffer for Jesus in prison. No! I was with Jesus and I experienced his very real presence, joy, and peace every day. It's not those in prison for the sake of the gospel who suffer. The person who suffers is he who never experiences God's intimate presence.
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I get a special joy in knowing people feel comfortable if they see me in Wal-Mart or in a no-frills section trying to get something on a discount.
