Joy Quotes - Page 21

• Drunk with the joy of singing I forget myself and call thee friend who art my lord.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Art, Drunk, Singing

  Rabindranath Tagore, William Radice (2011). “Gitanjali: Song Offerings”, p.77, Penguin Books India

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• A man may manifest and communicate his joy, but he should conceal and smother his grief as much as possible.

  Robert E. Lee

  Grief, Men, May

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• Set your heart on doing good. Do it over and over again, and you will be filled with joy.

  Gautama Buddha

  Heart, Helping Others, Doing Good

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• Holding someone's hand was always my idea of joy.

  Clarice Lispector

  Hands, Ideas

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• If you would find happiness and joy, lose your life in some noble cause. A worthy purpose must be at the center of every worthy life.

  Jack H. Goaslind

  Life, Finding Happiness, Purpose

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• Our deepest need is for the joy that comes with knowing we are of genuine use to others.

  Eknath Easwaran

  Knowing, Needs, Use

  Eknath Easwaran (1996). “Love Never Faileth: Eknath Easwaran on St. Francis, St. Augustine, St. Paul and Mother Teresa”, p.30, Nilgiri Press

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• Each human being has the right to seek out joy, joy being understood as something which makes one content - not necessarily that which makes others content.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Understood, Humans

  Paulo Coelho (2015). “Warrior of the Light -”, Booklassic

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• Joy bubbles on a fountain of doubt.

  Alison Croggon

  Doubt, Fountain, Bubbles

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• Resentments lodge inside you, causing you to lose touch with your inherent worth, your joy, and - more important - your God-loving heart.

  Debbie Ford

  Heart, Important, Resentment

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• An attitude of philosophic doubt, of suspended judgment, is repugnant to the natural man. Belief is an independent joy to him.

  William Minto

  Attitude, Independent, Men

  William Minto “Logic, Inductive and Deductive”, Рипол Классик

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• Gratitude is the seedbed of joy.

  Peter Kreeft

  Gratitude

  Peter Kreeft (1992). “Back to Virtue: Traditional Moral Wisdom for Modern Moral Confusion”, p.122, Ignatius Press

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• If the concept of consciousness were to fall to science, what would happen to our sense of moral agency and free will? If conscious experience were reduced somehow to mere matter in motion, what would happen to our appreciation of love and pain and dreams and joy? If conscious human beings were just animated material objects, how could anything we do to them be right or wrong?

  Daniel Dennett

  Dream, Appreciation, Pain

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• I have absolutely no fear of death. Why would I? There's nothing to fear-only joy to experience.

  Don Piper

  No Fear, Fear Of Death

  Don Piper, Cecil Murphey (2006). “90 Minutes in Heaven: A True Story of Death & Life”, p.196, Revell

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• Joy is not a feeling in us. Joy does not enter into us. We enter into joy: "Enter into the joy of your Lord" (Mt 25:21).

  Peter Kreeft

  Feelings, Doe, Lord

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• God is not a killjoy; he just opposes what kills joy.

  John Piper

  Killjoy

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• Just follow your joy. Always. I think that if you do that, life will take you on the course that it's meant to take you.

  Jonathan Groff

  Thinking, Courses, Ifs

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• People search for joy everywhere not knowing that the Self is the source of all joy

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Self, Knowing, People

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• The truth is life is full of joy and full of great sorrow, but you can't have one without the other.

  Andre Dubus

  Sorrow, Life Is, Truth Is

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• All worldly joys are less than that one joy of doing kindnesses.

  John Wesley

  Kindness, Worldly

  John Wesley (1825). “Sermons on several occasions [ed. by T. Jackson].”, p.379

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• When you stand still, you reject the struggle, and you refuse to change and grow. Ultimately, you reject fulfillment, happiness, the dance for joy and everything else that is eternally good.

  Matthew Kelly

  Struggle, Fulfillment, Grows

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• My great joy is to give form to reality. Music is a great release, a great enjoyment to me. Eventually I'd like to write something of great importance. That's my ambition - to write something worthwhile.

  Jim Morrison

  Writing, Ambition, Reality

  "When You’re Strange" by Daniel Nester, www.poetryfoundation.org. October 19, 2011.

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• Let every hindrance to joy become the soil out of which joy blossoms.

  Elizabeth George

  Soil, Hindrance

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• Do not be afraid of what God asks of you! It is worth saying 'yes' to God. In him we find joy.

  Pope Francis

  Saying Yes, Asks

  "Pope Draws 3 Million to Mass as Brazil Trip Closes" by Nicole Winfield and Jenny Barchfield, www.realclearpolitics.com. July 30, 2013.

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• When you numb your pain you also numb your joy.

  Brené Brown

  Pain, Numb

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• Figure out what fuels your joy, then do lots of that

  Bob Goff

  Fuel, Figures

  FaceBook post by Bob Goff from Jan 09, 2014

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