Joy Quotes
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In what he suffered, as in all true suffering and in true joy, there was the quality of eternity. He could not believe it would ever end.
Elizabeth Goudge -
The people who shape our lives and our cultures have the ability to communicate a vision or a quest or a joy or a mission.
Anthony Robbins
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The joy that comes past hope and beyond expectation is like no other pleasure in extent.
Sophocles -
Allow yourself to experience fully every step of the journey, both the joy and the pain. You're alive. Greet the moment at hand with a grateful heart.
Eleanor Brown -
You carry all the ingredients to turn your existence into joy. Mix them, Mix them!
Hazrat Inayat Khan -
True joy is a serene and sober motion; and they are miserably out so that take laughing for rejoicing; the seat of it is within, and there is no cheerfulness like the resolutions of a brave mind.
Seneca the Younger -
Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton -
Today's Gypsies, who have lived in Prague for only two generations, light a ritual fire wherever they work, a nomads' fire crackling only for the joy of it, a blaze of roughhewn wood like a child's laugh, a symbol of the eternity that preceded human thought, a free fire, a gift from heaven, a living sign of the elements unnoticed by the world-weary pedestrian, a fire in the ditches of Prague warming the wanderer's eye and soul.
Bohumil Hrabal
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Compassion is one of the principal things that make our lives meaningful. It is the source of all lasting happiness and joy.
Dalai Lama -
It's easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
Erica Jong -
People are constantly clamoring for the joy of life. As for me, I find the joy of life in the hard and cruel battle of life - to learn something is a joy to me.
August Strindberg -
It's such a joy to be able to play someone who is angry. It's a joy and a relief.
Sandra Bullock -
It was the most beautiful thing I'd ever seen. How the artist captured the light, the details of my mother's dimples, the joy in my father's eyes, all through gentle strokes from his palette. The artist made me look alive when I felt lonely and grim inside. That's the way this man saw me. I decided then that that's what I wanted to do.
Ellen Schreiber -
Every morning when I wake up, I experience an exquisite joy - the joy of being Salvador Dalí - and I ask myself in rapture: What wonderful things this Salvador Dalí is going to accomplish today?
Salvador Dali
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If you fold your clothes in the formal spark of joy, you can actually make the joy last longer.
Marie Kondo -
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 -
The wise man seeks little joys, knowing that life is long and that his quota of great joys is distinctly limited.
William Feather -
Love. It's so close to hate, it's almost indistinguishable. But this is how it was for the two of them. Love and hate. Life and death. Joy and anguish.
Melissa de la Cruz -
Every optimist moves along with progress and hastens it, while every pessimist would keep the worlds at a standstill. The consequence of pessimism in the life of a nation is the same as in the life of the individual. Pessimism kills the instinct that urges men to struggle against poverty, ignorance and crime, and dries up all the fountains of joy in the world.
Helen Keller -
My professional life in Hollywood has been filled with joy and laughter.
Carroll O'Connor
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When you have His joy in your heart, it doesn't necessarily mean your pain or hurt will be taken away. It means you'll be able to bear it.
Adrian Rogers -
How can a bird that is born for joy Sit in a cage and sing?
William Blake -
You can only feel creative when there is joy. When there is a sense of passion.
Andreas Moritz -
The wisest were just the poor and simple people. They knew the war to be a misfortune, whereas those who were better off, and should have been able to see more clearly what the consequences would be, were beside themselves with joy.
Erich Maria Remarque