Joy Quotes - Page 22

• The melancholy joys of evils pass'd, For he who much has suffer'd, much will know.

  Homer

  Evil, Suffering, Melancholy

  Homer (2015). “The Odyssey”, p.563, Homer

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

  John Piper

  Killjoy

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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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• 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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• The more we seek gratitude, the more reason the angels will give us for gratitude and joy to exist in our lives.

  Terry Taylor

  Gratitude, Angel, Giving

  Terry Lynn Taylor (1996). “Angel Days”, Ballantine Books

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• There are worlds beyond anything you can imagine; there are joys beyond anything you have experienced. There are ecstasies that are undreamed of, I assure you.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Other Worlds, Imagine

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• I know that wine is, above all else, a blessing, a gift of nature, a joy as pure and elemental as the soil and vines and sunshine from which it springs.

  Robert Mondavi

  Spring, Wine, Sunshine

  Robert Mondavi (1999). “Harvests of Joy: How the Good Life Became Great Business”, p.16, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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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• Faith is born and sustained by the Word of God, and out of faith grows the flower of joy.

  John Piper

  Flower, Born, Grows

  John Piper (2011). “Desiring God, Revised Edition: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist”, p.148, Multnomah

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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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• The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow.

  Mark Twain

  Secret, Sorrow, Source

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• Follow not after the vain, understand the ills of sense pleasures. One who is vigilant and meditative, obtains deep joy.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Pleasure, Vain

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• We resist Joy on this planet more than we resist war.

  Marianne Williamson

  War, Planets

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• Perhaps the day may come when we shall remember these sufferings with joy.

  Virgil

  Suffering, May, Remember

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• The joy and happiness it gives you or the emotions you go through when you hold your child in your arms for the first time are indescribable! I really thought that there was going be this moment when a ray of light from heaven would come pouring in, background music would start playing with angels singing, but none of that happens!

  Abhishek Bachchan

  Children, Angel, Light

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• The joy sometimes is in the simple beauty.

  Frank Deford

  Simple, Sometimes, Simple Beauty

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The way to create more joy in your life is by having an attitude of abundance.

  Lynn Robinson

  Attitude, Way, Life Is

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• Cowards suffer, heroes enjoy.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Hero, Suffering, Coward

  Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson (1865). “Letters to Various Persons”, p.184

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• Great photos of the great moments always give us a great joy!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Giving, Moments, Great Moments

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• The butterfly lures us not only because he is beautiful, but because he is transitory. The caterpillar is uglier, but in him we can regard the better joy of becoming.

  Cynthia Ozick

  Beautiful, Butterfly, Becoming

  Cynthia Ozick (1991). “The Pagan Rabbi and Other Stories”, E P Dutton

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• Deep joy is a serene and sober emotion, rarely evinced in open merriment.

  Madame Roland

  Emotion, Sober, Serene

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• Friendship multiplies joy and divides sorrow.

  Nicky Gumbel

  Sorrow, Divides

  Twitter post from Jun 06, 2014

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