Joy Quotes
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In war, men lose what makes them great. Their creativity. Their wisdom. Their joy. All that's left is their utility. War is not monstrous for making corpses of men so much as it is for making machines of them. And woe to those who have no use in war except to feed the machines.
Pierce Brown
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I went to visit Alcatraz years ago when I was on tour with the Pistols, and I really liked the atmosphere of the place. I genuinely, really, thoroughly enjoyed the whole morning there. I just liked the quietness and stillness of what is basically a cruel prison complex. I still found some kind of joy in that. That's how I am.
John Joseph Lydon
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You have the strength to push back against what others are making you think or do. You use that muscle of confidence. In the same way, joy is from the inside out, and not letting the things on the outside define you.
Bonnie St. John
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The joy I feel is immense; it burns inside me as though I have swallowed a piece of the sun.
Edith Pattou
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Oh, this is the joy of the rose;
That it blows,
And goes.
Willa Cather
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Short stories consume you faster. They're connected to brevity. With the short story, you are up against mortality. I know how tough they are as a form, but they're also a total joy.
Ali Smith
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It's a joy, the process itself, even instrumentally, playing and constructing music. It's just so beautiful to me.
James Edward Olliges Jr.
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How will you become free? With a quiet mind Come into that empty house, your heart, And feel the joy of the way Beyond the world. Look within - The rising and the falling.
Gautama Buddha
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I feel there is love and confidence in me somewhere and I want to find it. So far, music is the only medium that's allowed me to flirt with a sense of self-worth, with joy and comfort.
Cold Cave
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Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.
Euripides
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Next to doing a good job yourself, the greatest joy is having someone else do a first class job under your direction.
William Feather
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I see, in this life, the hardship many suffer. I see the joy that music can give. How we deal with all this is part of a preparation for the next life.
Andris Nelsons
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Gem of all joy, jasper of jocundity.
William Dunbar
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Those who show pity and are always ready to help during times of trouble are seldom the same ones who rejoice in our joy: when others are happy they have nothing to do, they become superfluous and lose their feeling of superiority, and so they easily show their displeasure.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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If I have known much trouble in my youth, I have also known much joy.
Clara Schumann
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We petitioned to get access to film Suffragette at the Houses of Parliament and we whooped with joy when we were allowed in, as this is the first ever commercial film to shoot there.
Sarah Gavron
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I was sitting in Arizona when I received Dogs on Cape Cod. Seeing the joy these dogs had playing on the beaches and in the marsh grasses on the Cape carried me back to my family visits in Harwich. The dogs are so full of life, it just made me smile.
Betsy King
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You have available to you, right now, a powerful supercomputer. This powerful tool has been used through-out history to take people from rags to riches, from poverty and obscurity to success and fame, from unhappiness and frustration to joy and self-fulfillment, and it can do the same for you.
Brian Tracy
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I think I run my strongest when I run with joy, with gratitude, with focus, with grace.
Kristin Armstrong
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What is it that endowed things with meaning, value, significance? The creating heart, which desired, and, out of its desire, created. It created joy and woe. It wanted to satiate itself with woe. We must take all the suffering that has been endured by men and animals upon ourselves and affirm it, and possess a goal in which it acquires reason.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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If you haven’t experienced frustration, don’t hope for joy.
Woo Ji-ho
Block B
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I think about freedom as not only as the absence of oppression but also the presence of justice and joy.
DeRay Mckesson
