Joy Quotes
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Releasing the invisible ties to those who have left you, betrayed you, disappointed you or hurt you, you open up to higher realms of love, peace and joy.
Debbie Ford
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London, thou art the flower of cities all! Gemme of all joy, jasper of jocunditie.
William Dunbar
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So we strive for perfection in the areas in which we can control, and that isn't necessarily what provides contentment and joy for ourselves and, more importantly, for our children.
Sarah Jessica Parker
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You may think life is sweet now, but when death is a heartbeat away then life becomes unbearably desirable. And when you survive, everything you do will be enhanced and filled with greater joy: the sunlight, the breeze, a good wine, a woman's lips, a child's laughter.
David Gemmell
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Am I melancholy? I certainly have moments. I like to think there's a capacity for joy as well.
Stephen Dillane
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Young people coming up who are having difficulty with their so-called celebrity need to get back into their lives. It's your life and you can't let the fact that you do something pretty good take away the joy of it.
Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
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Pain shared is pain lessened; joy shared is joy increased. Thus do we refute entropy.
Spider Robinson
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And no one shall work for money, and no one shall work for fame, But each for the joy of the working, and each, in his separate star, Shall draw the Thing as he sees It for the God of Things as They are!
Rudyard Kipling
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Prayer is the fruit of joy and thankfulness.
Evagrius Ponticus
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A Dionysian life task needs the hardness of the hammer and one of its first essentials is without doubt the joy to be found even in destruction.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Oh, this is the joy of the rose; That it blows, And goes.
Willa Cather
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We have within ourselves Enough to fill the present day with joy, And overspread the future years with hope.
William Wordsworth
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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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Always expecting this and expecting that. May I recommend serenity to you? A life that is burdened with expectations is a heavy life. Its fruit is sorrow and disappointment. Learn to be one with the joy of the moment.
Douglas Adams
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Common sense is strengthened by joy.
Nachman of Breslov
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It's astonishing what you learn and feel and see along the way. That's why a reporter's job, as you know, is such a joy.
Mike Wallace
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Genuine happiness comes from within, and often it comes in spontaneous feelings of joy.
Andrew Weil
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There is no greater joy in life than the joy of creating something.
Abhay Kumar
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Talent is a burden not a joy. I am not of this planet. I do not come from you. I am not like you.
Eunice Kathleen Waymon
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Her air, her manners, all who saw admir'd;Courteous though coy, and gentle though retir'd;The joy of youth and health her eyes display'd,And ease of heart her every look convey'd.
George Crabbe
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I don't think that you can possibly embrace the kind of joy which one who has worked with plants and plant structures such as I have over a period of nearly 40 years, how wonderful the plant laboratory seems.
Percy Julian
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To begin to understand your Soul as an integral part of yourself and begin to connect with your Soul as a part of your full being and your true nature, is the beginning of wisdom and the portal to true joy.
Genevieve
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Given that you're meeting a sloth, that feeling is generally joy, excitement, warmth, and love. What do those feelings smell like, you ask? Like laundry, watermelon rind, the top of a baby's head, boiling water, and fresh cut grass all mixed together.
Ann Burton
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I'm having a ball on 'Glee.' It's a joy to be working there - the whole cast is so talented.
Brian Stokes Mitchell