Joy And Happiness Quotes - Page 6

• A nation of ants, morose, frigid, and still preserving the same dread of happiness and joy as in the days of John Knox.

  Max O'Rell

  Joy, Insulting, Ants

  Max O'Rell (1893). “John Bull and His Daughters”

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• Don't put off joy and happiness. Strive to live each day to its fullest, squeezing all the joy you can out of each moment. Instead of measuring your life's value by your progress toward a single goal, remember that the direction you're headed in is more important than temporary results.

  Tony Robbins

  Goal, Joy, Progress

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• I've been riding the carousel in Central Park since I was five years old. If I'm very depressed or if something's bothering me today, my husband, Larry, and I go back to the park. We get on the carousel horse and we start riding, and I start singing at the top of my lungs. It is pure and absolute joy and happiness.

  Eda LeShan

  Horse, Husband, Central Park

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• Happiness, for me, is a function of the number of people I love, and I think joy and happiness is directly related to how many people are in our lives and how deeply we are bonded with those people. And so I'm happy if I'm with Ann; I'm happier if I'm also with my family and my grandchildren.

  Mitt Romney

  Grandchildren, Thinking, Numbers

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• Because He came to earth, we have a perfect example to follow. As we strive to become more like Him, we will have joy and happiness in our lives and peace each day of the year. It is His example which, if followed, stirs within us more kindness and love, more respect and concern for others.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Kindness, Years, Concern For Others

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• What mortal is there, over whose first joys and happiness does not break some storm, dispelling with its icy breath his fanciful illusions, and shattering his altar?

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Happiness, Joy, Storm

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• Life is life, and one has experiences that are painful and some that are very pleasant, and one has reward and sacrifice and more reward and disappointment and joy and happiness, and it's always going to be the same.

  Mel Gibson

  Disappointment, Sacrifice, Joy

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• When Kate was born, she was born into a world of joy and happiness and confidence. The difference between the children is night and day. She's happy, she's thriving, she's full of self-confidence. I tell her she's beautiful every day before I send her off to school.

  Lynn Johnston

  Beautiful, Children, School

  Interview with Tom Heintjes, cartoonician.com. May 16, 2012.

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• Peace cannot come by legislation or through affiliation with any political philosophy...Peace, joy, and happiness can come only through an acceptance of God's revealed plan of life.

  Theodore M. Burton

  Philosophy, Acceptance, Joy

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• Seeking the kingdom of God leads to joy and happiness.

  Allan F. Packer

  Joy, Kingdoms, Kingdom Of God

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• The piano is always true to me. In times of despair, happiness, and joy, its mood is always my own.

  Bradley Joseph

  Piano, Joy, Despair

  Album liner on "Grand Piano (Narada Anniversary Collection)", 1997.

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• Happiness and joy are not the same. For what does the fervent craving for joy mean? It does not mean that we wish at any cost to experience the psychic state of being joyful. We want to have reason for joy, for an unceasing joy that fills us utterly, sweeps all before it, exceeds all measure.

  Josef Pieper

  Mean, Psychics, Joy

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• I began to realize that life, despite moments of happiness and joy, is really about discovering priorities and dealing with unforeseen vagaries, differences, obstacles, inconveniences, and imperfections.

  Maureen McCormick

  Differences, Imperfection, Priorities

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• A father’s duty is to make his home a place of happiness and joy.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Father, Home, Joy

  Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• A child of God should be a visible beatitude for joy and happiness, and a living doxology for gratitude and adoration.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Gratitude, Children, Joy

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1870). “Feathers for Arrows: Or Illustrations for Preachers and Teachers, from My Note Book”, p.35

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• If you abide in the love of Christ, rooted in the faith, you will encounter, even amid setbacks and suffering, the source of true happiness and joy. Faith does not run counter to your highest ideals; on the contrary, it elevates and perfects those ideals. Dear young people, do not be satisfied with anything less than Truth and Love, do not be content with anything less than Christ.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Running, People, Joy

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• You're a happy fellow, for you'll give happiness and joy to many other people. There is nothing better or greater than that.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Happiness, People, Giving

  Ludwig van Beethoven, Donald Beattie, Delayna Beattie (2001). “Library of Piano Works, Vol 2”, p.7, Alfred Music Publishing

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• Let the surgeon take care to regulate the whole regimen of the patient's life for joy and happiness by promising that he will soon be well, by allowing his relatives and special friends to cheer him and by having someone tell him jokes, and let him be solaced also by music on the viol or psaltery. The surgeon must forbid anger, hatred, and sadness in the patient, and remind him that the body grows fat from joy and thin from sadness.

  Henri de Mondeville

  Cheer, Sadness, Science

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• Universities were not meant entirely, or even chiefly, as stepping-stones to an examination, but that there is something else which universities can teach and ought to teach-nay, which I feel quite sure they were originally meant to teach-something that may not have a marketable value before a Board of Examiners, but which has a permanent value for the whole of our life, and that is a real interest in our work, and, more than that, a love of our work, and, more than that, a true joy and happiness in our work.

  Max Muller

  Real, Origin Of Life, True Joy

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• You don't need a scale to tell you whether you're allowed to like yourself today. You are. You belong here. No matter what you weigh, you deserve joy and happiness.

  Geneen Roth

  Monday, Morning, Joy

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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

  Meaningful, Compassion, Lasting Happiness

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• Musical composition should bring happiness and joy to people and make them forget their troubles.

  Horace Silver

  People, Joy, Musical

  "Horace Silver, 85, Master of Earthy Jazz, Is Dead" by Peter Keepnews, www.nytimes.com. June 18, 2014.

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• Peace of mind, joy and happiness cannot be purchased with money or worldly goods.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Happiness, Joy, Mind

  Spencer W. Kimball (1982). “The Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, Twelfth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints”

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• My ultimate joy and happiness is being a wife and mother.

  Melissa Etheridge

  Mother, Wife, Joy

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• You find true joy and happiness in life when you give and give and go on giving and never count the cost.

  Eileen Caddy

  True Joy, Giving, Cost

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