Joy Quotes
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We didn't have any real proper school. We did not have a place to go to learn to dance and the joy of dancing.
Debbie Reynolds
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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.
Marlo Thomas
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Look for joy in your life; it's not always easy to find.
Charles Kuralt
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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.
John Rhys-Davies
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The greatest joy of a thinking man is to have searched the explored and to quietly revere the unexplored.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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It's a pleasure playing your big hit records and it's a real joy to see the audience.
Martin Fry
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New York, to me, even though I grew up here, there's something magical about it. I remember, every time I used to go to L.A. for work, when I'd come back and get off the plane and be driving towards the landscape of the city, I'd be beside myself with joy. It doesn't matter how many times!
Carol Kane
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Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.
Eileen Caddy
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Living the same sorrows three times was a suffering, but it was a suffering to relive even the same joys. The joy of life is born from feeling, whether it be joy or grief, always of short duration, and woe to those who know they will enjoy eternal bliss.
Umberto Eco
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There is no joy so great as that of reporting that a good play has come to town.
Brooks Atkinson
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If you really want to receive joy and happiness, then serve others with all your heart. Lift their burden, and your own burden will be lighter.
Ezra Taft Benson
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I mean it's the writing, not the being read, that excites me.
Virginia Woolf
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Money is a strange thing. It ranks with love as our greatest source of joy, and with death as our greatest source of anxiety.
Joe Moore
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Endure pain, find joy, and make your own meaning, because the universe certainly isn't going to supply it.
Lois McMaster
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If each man or woman could understand that every other human life is as full of sorrows, or joys, or base temptations, of heartaches and of remorse as his own . . . how much kinder, how much gentler he would be.
William Allen White
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Do what you love. Do what makes your heart sing. And NEVER do it for the money, Go to work to spread joy.
Marianne Williamson
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If I don't get a chance to play with my son in the morning, I feel like I missed something that I'll never get back. It's such a joy to wake up and be in the mindset of a five-year-old before transitioning into the role of 'executive.'
Biz Stone -
There may be Peace without Joy, and Joy without Peace, but the two combined make Happiness.
John Buchan
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Which of us that is thirty years old has not had its Pompeii? Deep under ashes lies the life of youth--the careless sport, the pleasure and the passion, the darling joy.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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Where there is the Infinite there is joy. There is no joy in the finite. —THE CHANDOGYA UPANISHAD
Charles Seife
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Who promised you that only for joy were you brought to this earth?
Anna Freud
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Don't be afraid to expand yourself, to step out of your comfort zone. That's where the joy and the adventure lie.
Herbie Hancock
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And joy is everywhere; it is in the earth's green covering of grass; in the blue serenity of the sky.
Rabindranath Tagore
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Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
Charles Du Bos