Joy Quotes
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Suddenly this defeat. This rain. The blues gone gray And the browns gone gray And yellow A terrible amber. In the cold streets Your warm body. In whatever room Your warm body. Among all the people Your absence The people who are always Not you. I have been easy with trees Too long. Too familiar with mountains. Joy has been a habit. Now Suddenly This rain.
Jack Gilbert
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Our goal should be to achieve joy.
Ana Castillo
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Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing.
William Congreve
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If we want to find happiness, let's stop thinking about gratitude or ingratitude and give for the inner joy of giving.
Dale Carnegie
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He let out a yell of joy. They danced round the room. Pressure of population was such that reproduction had to be strict, controlled. Childbirth required government permission. For this moment, they had waited four years. Incoherently they cried their delight.
Brian Aldiss
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Dom DeLuise was a big man in every way. He was big in size and created big laughter and joy.
Mel Brooks
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I've always associated the moment of writing with a moment of lift, of joy, of unexpected reward.
Seamus Heaney
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What matters poverty? What matters anything to him who is enamoured of our art? Does he not carry in himself every joy and every beauty?
Sarah Bernhardt
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As any parent, teacher, or librarian knows, there is no richer experience than to see children's faces light up at the suspense of a new tale or the surprise of a new poem. The uninhibited joy with which they listen is surely akin to that of adult audiences of old around campfire and hearth.
William Jay Smith
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When I think of the 1980s, the only color that comes to mind is a brown, yellowish color. I guess it's coming from my life experience, and it's melancholia and sadness and a bit of joy.
Denis Villeneuve
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There is no greater joy in life than the joy of creating something.
Abhay Kumar
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To be able to share in another's joy, that is the secret of happiness.
Georges Bernanos
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I don't need to punish people for sin. Sin is its own punishment, devouring you from the inside. It's not my purpose to punish it; it's my joy to cure it.
William P. Young
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You made me happy and you made me laugh, and if I could do it all over again, I would not hesitate. Look at our life, at the trips we took, the adventures we had. As your father used to say, we shared the longest ride together, this thing called life, and mine has been filled with joy because of you.
Nicholas Sparks
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If you patiently accept what comes, you will always pray with joy.
Evagrius Ponticus
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I don't think it's about art being a career but it's about making sure that if art is something that you love, something that brings you joy, it's about you having a duty to find time in your life for that thing that brings you joy...even if it can only be a small amount.
Sarah Kay
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Hell is wherever Love is not, and Heaven Is Love's location. No dogmatic creed, No austere faith based on ignoble fear Can lead thee into realms of joy and peace. Unless the humblest creatures on the earth Are bettered by thy loving sympathy Think not to find a Paradise beyond.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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I have no name: I am but two days old. What shall I call thee? I happy am, Joy is my name. Sweet joy befall thee!
William Blake
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Worry about tomorrow steals the joy from today.
Barbara Cameron
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The fact we got to become a part of the Marvel family and find our own expression within that is a real joy for my brother and I.
Anthony Russo
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Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men but from doing something worthwhile.
Wilfred Grenfell
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Swiftly walk over the western wave, Spirit of Night! Out of the misty eastern cave Where, all the long and lone daylight, Thou wovest dreams of joy and fear, Which make thee terrible and dear, - Swift be thy flight!
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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All my life, I've really enjoyed music: making music, playing it, and recording it. It's such a relief and a joy to do what I do for a living.
John 5 LOSER
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Gem of all joy, jasper of jocundity.
William Dunbar