Great Joy Quotes - Page 5

• Great work comes from great joy. Leave the angst for the movies; do art - that is fun.

  Jack White

  Art, Fun, Joy

  Jack White (2013). “Mystery of Making It: Reveals the Secrets of Marketing Art-How Artist Senkarik Sold the First Piece in 1980 and has Exceeded $7 Million in Sales”, p.18, Lulu Press, Inc

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• The fact is that writing, like any creative undertaking, carries with it both pain and great joy. The pain is often inherent in the most fertile subject matter; the joy lies in transforming that subject matter and thus moving through it in a way that helps us grow while we create something of value to others.

  Judith Barrington

  Pain, Lying, Moving

  Judith Barrington (2002). “Writing the Memoir”

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• I give you joy of your free and brave thought. I have great joy in it. I find incomparable things said incomparably well, as they must be. I find the courage of treatment which so delights us, and which large perception only can inspire.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Giving, Brave, Joy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1979). “Emerson's Literary Criticism”, p.229, U of Nebraska Press

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• I look back on my life with great joy. I think it was a very successful life. I always did what I wanted and never cared what anyone thought. Women's lib? I was a liberated woman long before there was a name for it.

  Peggy Guggenheim

  Successful, Thinking, Names

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• All paths lead to God, but only one path will present you before God without fault and with great joy. Pick a path, any path—it will take you to God. Trust me: you will stand before Him one day. You will meet your Maker. You will see the face of Christ. There are many ways up the mountain, but only one will result in life instead of destruction.

  Kevin DeYoung

  Joy, One Day, Mountain

  "All Paths Lead to God". www.thegospelcoalition.org. January 23, 2015.

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• An enchanting harmony of fuchsia, purple and pink undertones, Radiant Orchid inspires confidence and emanates great joy, love and health. It is a captivating purple, one that draws you in with its beguiling charm.

  Leatrice Eiseman

  Orchids, Purple, Joy

  "Pantone's Radiant Orchid is 2014's Color of the Year" by Eun Kyung Kim, www.today.com. October 14, 2016.

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• What I am anxious to see in Christian believers is a beautiful paradox. I want to see in them the joy of finding God while at the same time they are blessedly pursuing Him. I want to see in them the great joy of having God yet always wanting Him.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Beautiful, Christian, Joy

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• Make others truly happy as you strive to make yourself happy. Speak a helpful word. Give a cheering smile. Do a kind act. Serve a little. Wipe the tears of one who is in distress. Render smooth a rough place in another's path. You will feel great joy.

  Sivananda

  Cheer, Giving, Joy

  Swami Sivananda (1964). “Bliss Divine: A Book of Spiritual Essays on the Lofty Purpose of Human Life and the Means to Its Achievement”

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• I get great joy from creating the perfect Norman Rockwell holiday. This is why I think I might be Martha Stewart's brother from another mother.

  Jesse Tyler Ferguson

  Mother, Brother, Holiday

  "Turkey Day" by Jesse Tyler Ferguson, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 22, 2011.

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• [I] put the question directly to myself: "Suppose that all your objects in life were realized; that all the changes in institutions and opinions which you are looking forward to, could be completely effected at this very instant: would this be a great joy and happiness to you?" And an irrepressible self-consciousness distinctly answered, "No!

  John Stuart Mill

  Self, Joy, Opinion

  John Stuart Mill (2007). “Autobiography of John Stuart Mill”, p.94, Cosimo, Inc.

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• We are all capable of living lives characterized by great joy. Within each of us is an amazing human spirit that is strong enough to overcome pain and disappointment. And no matter what our current situation happens to be, or what beliefs we may currently harbor about ourselves, we can tap into that inner strength and wisdom and move forward to create more joy.

  Salle Merrill Redfield

  Strong, Pain, Disappointment

  Salle Merrill Redfield (2009). “Creating a Life of Joy: A Meditative Guide”, p.8, Hachette UK

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• I love fashion as much as I love basketball! It is a great joy for me to express myself through designing my own collection.

  Hakeem Olajuwon

  Basketball, Fashion, Design

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• The spectrum that most people exist in this world is very mundane and very unhappy. Certainly human beings are capable of experiencing great joy and happiness.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, People

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• Singing is my passion, my first love and the secret of my energy. Music to me is like finding my inner self, my soul. It gives me a great joy to see audiences enjoying with me. I have given my heart to singing. When I sing, I can feel romance in everything around me.

  Kailash Kher

  Passion, Heart, First Love

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• A good Soul hath neither too great joy, nor too great sorrow: for it rejoiceth in goodness; and it sorroweth in wickedness. By the means whereof, when it beholdeth all things, and seeth the good and bad so mingled together, it can neither rejoice greatly; nor be grieved with over much sorrow.

  Pythagoras

  Mean, Joy, Soul

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• Blow, bugles of battle, the marches of peace; East, west, north, and south let the long quarrel cease; Sing the song of great joy that the angels began, Sing the glory to God and of good-will to man!

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Christmas, Song, Angel

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1857*). “Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.393

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• An audience sabotages my freedom, devastates my innocence, corrupts my integrity, inhibits my great joy - and of course gives me further to fall.

  Selima Hill

  Integrity, Fall, Giving

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• I buy art in order to live with it at home or in the office, never to store it away in a vault. In fact, living with art has been one of the great joys of my life. It is a private pleasure, however, and not one that I have an urge to inflict on other people.

  Michael Audain

  Art, Home, Order

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• A man who doesn't detest a bad government is a fool. And if there were such a thing as a good government on earth, it would be a great joy to serve it.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Men, Joy, Fool

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2000). “The Left Hand of Darkness”, p.146, Penguin

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• Music is one of those things that brings great joy to people, singing is a sort of unifier of people, no matter what political place or original place you come from.

  Brian Viglione

  People, Joy, Political

  OndaRock Interview, June 01, 2006.

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• How we delight to build our recollections upon some basis of reality,--a place, a country, a local habitation! how the events of life, as we look back upon them, have grown into the well-remembered background of the places where they fell upon us! Here is some sunny garden or summer lane, beautified and canonized forever, with the flood of a great joy; and here are dim and silent places,--rooms always shadowed and dark to us, whatever they may be to others,--where distress or death came once, and since then dwells forevermore.

  Washington Irving

  Summer, Country, Dark

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• Love lent me wings; my path was like a stair;
  A lamp unto my feet, that sun was given;
  And death was safety and great joy to find;
  But dying now, I shall not climb to Heaven.

  Michelangelo

  Wings, Feet, Safety

  Michelangelo Buonarroti, Tommaso Campanella (1878). “The Sonnets of Michael Angelo Buonarroti and Tommaso Campanella”

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• I cannot sleep - great joy is as restless as sorrow.

  Fanny Burney

  Sleep, Joy, Sorrow

  Fanny Burney (1820). “Evelina; Or, The History of a Young Lady's Introduction to the World”, p.259

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• Life is a thing of many stages and moving parts. What we do with ease at one time of life we can hardly manage at another. What we could not fathom doing when we were young, we find great joy in when we are old. Like the seasons through which we move, life itself is a never-ending series of harvests, a different fruit for every time.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Moving, Joy, Ease

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• The church-bells of innumerable sects are all chime-bells to-day, ringing in sweet accordance throughout many lands, and awaking a great joy in the heart of our common humanity.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Christmas, Sweet, Heart

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