Great Joy Quotes - Page 3

• Life is a chain of small sorrows that lead to a great joy.

  Siddharth Katragadda

  Joy, Sorrow, Life Is

  "The Other Wife: A Novel in Verse". Book by Siddharth Katragadda, 2003.

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• Preparing food is one of life's great joys, but a lot of times, parents ask their kids if they want to cook with them and then tell them to go peel a bag of potatoes. That's not cooking - that's working!

  Guy Fieri

  Kids, Joy, Parent

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• The more we know Him, the more we will desire to know Him. As love increases with knowledge, the more we know God, the more we will truly love Him. We will learn to love Him equally in times of distress or in times of great joy.

  Brother Lawrence

  Joy, Desire, Increase

  Brother Lawrence (2013). “The Brother Lawrence Collection”, p.69, Simon and Schuster

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• We are not very much to blame for our bad marriages. We live amid hallucinations, and especial trap is laid to trip up our feet with, and all are tripped up first or last. But the mighty mother, who had been so sly with us, as if she felt she owed us some indemnity, insinuates into the Pandora box of marriage some deep and serious benefits, and some great joys.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mother, Feet, Joy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.169, Harvard University Press

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• Well, I don't think everything necessarily that I touch turns to gold, but I think I get great joy out of it regardless of whether it is successful or not.

  Kenny Rogers

  Successful, Thinking, Joy

  "Gay Adoption Controversy in Boston; Interview with Kenny Rogers". "American Morning", edition.cnn.com. March 22, 2006.

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• There is great joy in leading with authority, which is serving others by meeting their legitimate needs.

  James Hunter

  Joy, Needs, Serving Others

  James C. Hunter (2008). “The Servant: A Simple Story About the True Essence of Leadership”, p.182, Crown Business

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• Great sorrow or great joy should bring intense hunger--not abstinence from food, as our novelists will have it.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Joy, Sorrow, Novelists

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Illustrated)”, p.1744, Delphi Classics

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• Some people just derive great joy from making other people laugh. And I do, but I don't feel like I need to do it 24 hours a day.

  Steve Carell

  People, Laughing, Joy

  Interviewwith Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. August 23, 2005.

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• Of course, it's a great joy to be able to perform. And that love affair with an audience, where you give love and they give love back - it's a romantic situation.

  Barry Crocker

  Love, Giving, Joy

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• To me, singing is basically a form of prayer. I get this great joy when I`m singing - whatever I`m singing. I missed it when I left it.

  Maureen McGovern

  Prayer, Joy, Singing

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• One of the great joys of my job is that you spend a huge amount of time investigating different areas of literature.

  Stephen Daldry

  Jobs, Joy, Different

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• The essential difference between the unhappy, neurotic type person and him of great joy is the difference between get and give.

  Erich Fromm

  Differences, Giving, Joy

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• I would just like to say this about all the married people working together on the set: it was just a joy. That is the great joy to go to work with people that you love, whether they be people that you are in love with or people that you just love and be creative and artistic and make things that you want to send out into the world and make people feel good. It was a great environment to work in for me.

  Julia Roberts

  People, Creative, Feel Good

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• Lady ---- is safely delivered of a son, to the great joy of that noble family. The expression, of a woman's having brought her husband a son, seems to be a proper and cautious one; for it is never said, from whence.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Husband, Son, Expression

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.325, Oxford University Press

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• it pleaseth me when I see through the meadows
  The tents and pavilions set up, and great joy have I
  When I see o'er the campana knights armed and horses arrayed.
  
  And it pleaseth me when the scouts set in flight the folk with
  their goods;
  And it pleaseth me when I see coming together after them an host of
  armed men.

  Bertran de Born

  Horse, Men, Knights

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• I took a great joy with inventing new kinds of mechanisms. I invented new kinds of machines. I've been a student of science fiction for a long, long time, and I'm very well-versed in science fact and science fiction.

  Jack Kirby

  Long, Joy, Fiction

  Interview with Gary Groth, www.tcj.com. February 1990.

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• It's my chance to challenge myself to the fullest, which is one of the great joys about my job... I love it when a character requires me to look less than my red-carpet best. It's more fun playing a character that requires you to look like dog s - t.

  Kate Winslet

  Dog, Jobs, Fun

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• My mother was someone that walked into a room and lit it up. She made friends easily and she communicated her enthusiasms with great joy. I always wanted to be more like my mother than I am. I loved and admired her very deeply.

  Meryl Streep

  Mother, Joy, Rooms

  Source: the-talks.com

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• It's an experience like no other experience I can describe, the best thing that can happen to a scientist, realizing that something that has happened in his or her mind exactly corresponds to something that happens in nature. One is surprised that a construct of one's own mind can actually be realised in the honest-to-goodness world out there. A great shock, and a great, great joy.

  Leo Kadanoff

  Joy, Mind, World

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• I'm an older, wall-eyed, overweight, tweedy writer who has been lucky enough to be asked to play various iterations of himself in a certain realm of popular cultutre. That gives me great joy and excitement, but I don't go to the media saying, "And I'm also the world's greatest actor."

  John Hodgman

  Wall, Media, Play

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. October 21, 2008.

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• That's the great paradox of living on this earth, that in the midst of great pain you can have great joy as well. If we didn't have those things we'd just be numb.

  Kathy Mattea

  Pain, Joy, Earth

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• It is a great joy to believe that Jesus has been tempted in all points just as we are.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Jesus, Believe, Joy

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• A car for the people, an affordable Volkswagen, would bring great joy to the masses and the problems of building such a car must be faced with courage.

  Adolf Hitler

  People, Car, Joy

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• I love the shared experience of watching a movie with my kids. One of the great joys in life is when we're all laughing together, at the same thing.

  Rob Letterman

  Kids, Laughing, Joy

  Source: collider.com

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• So here comes Gabriel again, and what he says is "Good tidings of great joy for all people." That's why the shepherds are first: they represent all the nameless, all the working stiffs, the great wheeling population of the whole world.

  Walter Wangerin

  Healing, People, Joy

  Walter Wangerin Jr. (2011). “Preparing for Jesus”, p.107, Zondervan

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