joy quotes

Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.

Dr. Seuss

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To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.

Mark Twain

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Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognise how good things really are.

Marianne Williamson

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If you carry joy in your heart, you can heal any moment.

Carlos Santana

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Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.

Richard Bach

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The joy in life is to be used for a purpose. I want to be used up when I die.

George Bernard Shaw

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Comparison is the thief of joy.

Theodore Roosevelt

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For me, half the joy of achieving has been the struggle and the fight, the pitting myself against the world and all its competition - and winning.

Conrad Veidt

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Joy runs deeper than despair

Corrie Ten Boom

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Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.

Lao Tzu

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We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone - but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.

Walter Anderson

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I'm trying to stay as calm as possible and focus one day at a time, but when reality sets in, I feel everything: anxiety, excitement, nerves, pressure and joy.

Shawn Johnson

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Joy has this in common with pain, that it robs people of reason.

Platen

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Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life.

William Congreve

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And remember, it's also very funny, because side by side with grief lies joy.

Fran Drescher

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Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.

Jim Rohn

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The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy.

Henry Ward Beecher

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Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.

Emily Dickinson

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As selfishness and complaint pervert and cloud the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.

Helen Keller

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I sometimes wander whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.

C. S. Lewis

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I love my children beyond all reason. They're my joy, even when they're wild with kid energy.

Christopher Meloni

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The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.

Charles Dickens

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I’m glad we had the times together just to laugh and sing a song, seems like we just got started and then before you know it, the times we had together were gone.

Dr. Seuss

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The only time to eat diet food is while you're waiting for the steak to cook.

Julia Child

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Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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Joy, has no cost.

Marianne Williamson

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May your joys be as deep as the ocean, your sorrows as light as its foam.

Unknown

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I have no greater joy then to hear that my children walk in truth. John 4

Bible

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The trouble with many men is that they have got just enough religion to make them miserable. If there is not joy in religion, you have got a leak in your religion.

Billy Sunday

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Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.

Albert Einstein

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I'm real excited. I'm so blessed to have so much peace and joy inside. I just can't keep quiet about it.

Brian Welch

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The joy of viewing land, the hope of in a few days ranging through the long wished-for spot and the pleasure of again resuming my wonted employment may be readily calculated.

David Douglas

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Be good, keep your feet dry, your eyes open, your heart at peace and your soul in the joy of Christ.

Thomas Merton

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There are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind them when they go.

Jean Paul

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One can endure sorrow alone, but it takes two to be glad.

Elbert Hubbard

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Part of the joy of looking at art is getting in sync in some ways with the decision-making process that the artist used and the record that's embedded in the work.

Chuck Close

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Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.

Christian Nevell Bovee

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Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures.

Thomas Aquinas

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One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Chinese Proverbs

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How good is man's life, the mere living! How fit to employ all the heart and the soul and the senses forever in joy!

Robert Browning

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A lot of people put all that stuff on a pedestal, and they won't touch it. But I don't think that's the reason they did that. I think they played that stuff out of pure joy.

Brian Setzer

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Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow.

Rene Descartes

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Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness - great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.

Jim Rohn

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Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.

Greg Anderson

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We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.

Buddha

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A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.

John Keats

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Meditation is painful in the beginning but it bestows immortal Bliss and supreme joy in the end.

Swami Sivananda

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Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice! Philippians 4:4

Bible

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And I think a woman should find it a joy to be female because God made both male and female.

Little Richard

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The joys we expect are not so bright, nor the troubles so dark as we fancy they will be.

Charles Reade

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The joy of winning is not as dramatic as the losses were, because I expected us to win.

Jack Youngblood

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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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It is a simple but sometimes forgotten truth that the greatest enemy to present joy and high hopes is the cultivation of retrospective bitterness.

Robert Menzies

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Joys divided are increased.

Josiah Gilbert Holland

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The quietest poetry can be an explosion of joy.

James Broughton

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Nothing gives me quite so much joy as when people tell me they've had their pets spayed or neutered.

Bob Barker

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You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.

Khalil Gibran

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Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all -- that has been my religion.

John Burroughs

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From my point of view, there is a lot of joy in stage work.

George Peppard

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In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.

Henry Ward Beecher

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Words are less needful to sorrow than to joy.

Helen Hunt Jackson

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When I think about my new CD, the word "joy" comes to mind. I sincerely hope that each listener will feel the earth, spirit, and aggressive creativity emanating from this album.

George Duke

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Pan, who and what art thou? he cried huskily. I'm youth, I'm joy, Peter answered at a venture, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.

J.M. Barrie

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I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river.

Chuang Tzu

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I'll keep working as long as I live because singing has taken on the feeling of joy that I had when I started, when my only responsibility was to sing well.

Rosemary Clooney

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What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they've taken away?

Logan Pearsall Smith

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Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue.

Henry Fielding

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I really feel like the gift is also the curse. It's always half-and-half. Whatever brings you the most joy will also probably bring you the most pain. Always a price to pay.

Alice Hoffman

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I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by which I cannot live in, make love to, possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy.

Anais Nin

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Rekindle the joy yachtsman that lies deep inside of you; share magic crystals and watch it grow!

Isabel Yosito

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You all know that I have been sustained throughout my life by three saving graces - my family, my friends, and a faith in the power of resilience and hope. These graces have carried me through difficult times and they have brought more joy to the good times than I ever could have imagined.

Elizabeth Edwards

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He who does not believe has no soul. He is empty. He has no ideals. He has nothing to live for. He has no sunshine, no light, no joy in life. He is a poor, poor man.

Robert Ley

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You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy.

John Calvin

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I do what I do because of Walt Disney - his films and his theme park and his characters and his joy in entertaining.

John Lasseter

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We could all do with a bit more joy in our lives couldn't we? The wonderful thing is that when we start spreading joy, we begin to actually experience more joy in our lives too!

Steve Goodier

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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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There are, as is known, insects that die in the moment of fertilization. So it is with all joy: life's highest, most splendid moment of enjoyment is accompanied by death.

Soren Kierkegaard

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There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.

Khalil Gibran

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Happy is the person who not only sings, but feels God's eye is on the sparrow, and knows He watches over me. To be simply ensconced in God is true joy.

Alfred A. Montapert

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Joy is a subtle elf; I think one's happiest when he forgets himself.

Cyril Tourneur

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The most profound joy has more of gravity than of gaiety in it.

Michel de Montaigne

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When you were born, you cried and everybody else was happy. The only question that matters is this: When you die, will YOU be happy when everybody else is crying?

Tony Campolo

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I can see the music. I know what it looks like. I know what color it is. The words come easy, the tears come easy, and the joy comes easy. The music tells you what to do.

Mary J. Blige

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If things don't come easy, there is no premium on effort. There should be joy in the chase, zest in the pursuit.

Branch Rickey

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Lonesome. Lonesome. I know what it means. Here all by my lonesome, dreaming empty dreams. Weary. Weary at the close of day, wondering if tomorrow brings me joy or sorrow.

Leon Redbone

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Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of Humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.

Mark Twain

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He who binds to himself a joy does the winged life destroy. But he who kisses the joy as it flies lives in Eternity's sunrise.

William Blake

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To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life.

Simone Weil

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Shared joy is increased, shared pain is lessened.

Spider Robinson

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And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, till the Devil whispered behind the leaves It's pretty, but is it Art?

Rudyard Kipling

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Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.

Honore de Balzac

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There's a joy in writing short stories, a wonderful sense of reward when you pull certain things off.

Tobias Wolff

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Those who remain unmoved by the wind of joy silently follow the Path.

Bodhidharma

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All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.

Bodhidharma

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I don't really care how I am remembered as long as I bring happiness and joy to people.

Eddie Albert

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Raising kids is part joy and part guerilla warfare.

Ed Asner

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My heart is singing for joy this morning! A miracle has happened! The light of understanding has shone upon my little pupil's mind, and behold, all things are changed!

Anne Sullivan

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The nation's government has just handed me the bill that grants us our civil rights. I am receiving it before you, certain that I am accepting this on behalf of all Argentinean women, and I can feel my hands tremble with joy as they grasp the laurel proclaiming victory.

Evita Peron

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