Joy Quotes
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Some of the happiest people I know have none of the things the world insists are necessary for satisfaction and joy.
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If you have nothing but love for your avocados, and you take joy in turning them into guacamole, all you need is someone to share it with.
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Most cannot lead—the idea terrifies them. Yet for those like you and me, there is no greater joy than knowing there is no help coming. The decision is ours alone.
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One of the joys about acting is researching.
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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.
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Make sure that you always follow your heart and your gut, and let yourself be who you want to be, and who you know you are. And don't let anyone steal your joy.
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To be able to share in another's joy, that is the secret of happiness.
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In contentment and joy are found the height and perfection of all love towards our neighbor.
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After the rain, the sun will reappear. There is life. After the pain, the joy will still be here.
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Am I melancholy? I certainly have moments. I like to think there's a capacity for joy as well.
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I am not carefree. I'm just not. I experience an immense amount of joy, a crazy amount of joy through sadness and so much struggle. There's something problematic about 'carefree black girl.'
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I spend 60 hours a week on my business but I don't work for a minute. Work is hard. But what I do - writing, speaking, researching, learning, and sharing information - is pure joy. It's what I was called to do.
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Whenever I hear the epistles of Paul read out loud in the liturgy, I am filled with joy... If I'm regarded as a learned man, it's not because I'm brainy. It's simply because I have such a love for Paul that I have never left off reading him. He has taught me all I know.
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My vegetable patch is my pride and joy.
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There are other kinds of joy found in other places in the world, but there is no place where you can find Christian joy except in Christ.
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Where others see but the dawn coming over the hill, I see the soul of God shouting for joy.
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The joy of losing consists in this: Where there are no expectations, there is no disappointment.
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I feel joy when I do a great show. I get fun out of making other people happy. I'm a terminal people-pleaser. I suppose that's why I'm a frontman.
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For pure joy, I look at a small painting by Arbit Blatas. An ocean liner is at the center of the composition, perhaps ready to depart. It holds the promise of discovery.
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A movie tends to box you in, at least as far as the aesthetics. You have an incredibly kinetic experience, which is the joy of cinema.
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Every day is a gift. Remember to unwrap it with joy and gratitude.
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I thought of Chatterton, the marvellous boy, The sleepless soul that perished in his pride; Of him who walked in glory and in joy, Following his plough, along the mountain-side. By our own spirits we are deified; We Poets in our youth begin in gladness, But thereof come in the end despondency and madness.
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We are living in a world where the individual must learn to command the raw materials of expression. He must not be dependent all the time on the ready-made, the finished product. It's the transferring, the changing of the raw into what is the expression of your own self – the whole joy and satisfaction and frustration of life is built into this.
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Right here in our bodies, in our defense of our right to experience joy, in the refusal to abandon the place where we have been most completely invaded & colonized, in our determination to make the bombed & defoliated lands flower again and bear fruit, here where we have been most shamed is one of the most radical & sacred places from which to transform the world.
