Joy Quotes - Page 16

• I totally enjoy what I'm doing and bringing joy into people's lives. To me, and if I can bring one second of joy into a child or a grown-up's life, then I have achieved my lifetime ambition.

  Michael Jackson

  Life, Children, Ambition

  FaceBook post by Michael Jackson from Mar 27, 2013

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• From the great trees the locusts cry
  In quavering ecstatic duo-a boy
  Shouts a wild call-a mourning dove
  In the blue distance sobs-the wind
  Wanders by, heavy with odors
  Of corn and wheat and melon vines;
  The trees tremble with delirious joy as the breeze
  Greets them, one by one-now the oak
  Now the great sycamore, now the elm.

  Hamlin Garland

  Summer, Distance, Boys

  Hamlin Garland (1961). “Boy Life on the Prairie”, p.178, U of Nebraska Press

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• There can be no joy without gratitude.

  Richard Paul Evans

  Gratitude

  Richard Paul Evans (2012). “Miles to Go: The Second Journal of the Walk Series”, p.149, Simon and Schuster

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• When you learn to love your physical body, every activity can become a ritual of gratitude where you fully express the joy to be alive!

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Gratitude, Love You, Alive

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• The joys of heaven will surely compensate for the sorrows of earth.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Heaven, Sorrow, Earth

  Charles Spurgeon (2011). “Strengthen My Spirit”, p.117, Barbour Publishing

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• It is extraordinary to see how the discovery of one single free stroke of paint can fill you with such joy and amazement.

  Michele Cassou

  Discovery, Paint, Strokes

  Michele Cassou, Stewart Cubley (1996). “Life, Paint and Passion: Reclaiming the Magic of Spontaneous”, p.28, Penguin

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• True 'joy' is the difference between just amusing ourselves to death and creating 'meaningful' pleasure.

  Sidney Poitier

  Meaningful, Differences, Creating

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• Listen for silence in noisy places; feel at peace in the midst of disturbance; awaken joy when there is no reason.

  Sivaya Subramuniyaswami

  Silence, Reason, Midst

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• Children...they string our joys, like jewels bright, upon the thread of years.

  Edgar Guest

  Children, Jewels, Years

  Edgar Albert Guest, “The Children”

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• ...service can have no meaning unless one takes pleasure in it. When it is done for show or for fear of public opinion, it stunts the man and crushes his spirit. Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Crush, Men, Public Opinion

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.80, Courier Corporation

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• From self-knowledge flows the stream of humility, which never seizes on mere report, nor takes offense at anything, but bears every insult, every loss of consolation, and every sorry, from whatever direction they may come, patiently, with joy.

  St. Catherine of Siena

  Sorry, Humility, Loss

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• Help someone in distress and you lighten your own burden; the very joy of alleviating the sorrow of another is the lessening of one's own.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Sorrow, Helping, Burden

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• The present joys of life we doubly taste,
  By looking back with pleasure to the past.

  Martial

  Past, Taste, Pleasure

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• Ask to know what you are born to do. Follow the compass of joy.

  Barbara Marx Hubbard

  Compass, Born, Knows

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• When we give way to joy, we do not feel that we have lost control, but gained freedom.

  Jane Roberts

  Giving, Way, Lost

  Jane Roberts (2000). “ESP Power”, p.130, Frederick Fell Publishers

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• Those whose lives are fruitful to themselves, to their friends, or to the world are inspired by hope and sustained by joy: they see in imagination the things that might be and the way in which they are to be brought into existence.

  Bertrand Russell

  Imagination, World, Might

  Bertrand Russell (2013). “Roads to Freedom”, p.139, Routledge

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• Life is only a dream: soon, we shall awaken. And what joy! The greater our sufferings, the more limitless our glory. Oh! do not let us waste the trial Jesus sends.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Dream, Jesus, Suffering

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• You know what? Joy is the only guide. I'm going to have fun regardless.

  Joseph Fiennes

  Fun, Guides, Knows

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• Music was my joy, my home, the one place I felt happy and secure.

  Lawrence Welk

  Music, Home, Secure

  Lawrence Welk, Bernice McGeehan (1973). “Wunnerful, Wunnerful: The Autobiography of Lawrence Welk”

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• In anything there has to be dark and light. There's a lot of joy in my paintings and a lot of darkness.

  Gloria Vanderbilt

  Dark, Light, Painting

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• Your joy, your happiness, your satisfaction and your ability to dance with life, depends solely on what you pay attention to.

  Susan Jeffers

  Happiness, Law Of Attraction, Attention

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• Sometimes small things lead to great joys.

  Shmuel Yosef Agnon

  Sometimes, Great Joy, Small Things

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• Today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it.

  Kevyn Aucoin

  Negativity, Humanity, Choosing Happiness

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• Move in space with minimum waste and maximum joy.

  Sade Adu

  Inspirational, Moving, Space

  Song: Smooth Operator, Album: Diamond Life, 1984

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• I like winning. There's also a certain joy in it. I feel fulfilled by it.

  Carl Icahn

  Winning, Certain, Feels

  "Icahn on Icahn". www.breakingviews.com. March 27, 2012.

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