Joy Quotes - Page 33

• Pleasures lie thickest where no pleasures seem: There's not a leaf that falls upon the ground But holds some joy of silence or of sound, Some spirits begotten of a summer dream.

  Samuel Laman Blanchard

  Summer, Dream, Lying

  Samuel Laman Blanchard, “Hidden Joys”

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• When you're tempted to be upset, ask yourself 'Is this worth giving up my joy?'

  Joel Osteen

  Giving Up, Upset, Tempted

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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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• I want to continue to encourage as many people as I can to open their hearts to life, because if I know anything for sure, it's that opening my own heart is what has brought me my greatest success and joy.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Heart, People, Want

  Oprah Winfrey (2014). “What I Know for Sure”, p.95, Pan Macmillan

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• To attain eternal happiness one must suffer. He who has reached the state of self-sacrifice has true joy. Temporal joy will vanish.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Sacrifice, Self, True Joy

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• The writer's joy is the thought that can become emotion, the emotion that can wholly become a thought.

  Thomas E. Mann

  Emotion

  "Death in Venice". Bppl by Thomas Mann, 1912.

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• I slept and I dreamed that life is all joy. I woke and I saw that life is all service. I served and I saw that service is joy.

  Khalil Gibran

  Morning, Helping Others, Giving

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• Without dark clouds in our lives, we would never know the joy of sunshine. We can become callous and unteachable if we do not learn from pain.

  Billy Graham

  Pain, Sunshine, Dark

  Billy Graham, Franklin Graham, Donna Lee Toney (2011). “Billy Graham in Quotes”, p.79, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Passion is a feeling that tells you: this is the right thing to do. Nothing can stand in my way. It doesn't matter what anyone else says. This feeling is so good that it cannot be ignored. I'm going to follow my bliss and act upon this glorious sensation of joy.

  Wayne Dyer

  Inspirational, Passion, Feelings

  Dr. Wayne W. Dyer (2013). “The Essential Wayne Dyer Collection”, p.459, Hay House, Inc

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• One strain could call up the quivering expectancy of Christmas Eve, childhood, joy and sadness, the lonely wonder of a star

  Maud Hart Lovelace

  Lonely, Stars, Sadness

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• I've done my best, and I begin to understand what is meant by 'the joy of strife'. Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Winning, Trying, Done

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “Anne of Green Gables”, p.235, Xist Publishing

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• Jealousy means ego, jealousy means unconsciousness. Jealousy means that you have not known even a moment of joy and bliss; you are living in misery. Jealousy is a by-product of misery, ego, unconsciousness.

  Rajneesh

  Jealousy, Mean, Ego

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• Happiness lies in making others happy, in forsaking self-interest to bring joy to others.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Happiness, Lying, Self

  Yogananda (Paramahansa) (1971). “Self-realization”

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• Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.

  Goswami Kriyananda

  Happiness, Laughter, Struggle

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• Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die and none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  History, Fit, Duty

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.44, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Hope elevates, and joy
  Brightens his crest.

  John Milton

  Hope, Paradise Lost Book 9

  John Milton (1757). “Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books”, p.179

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• I do think that there's art that is tortured, but I prefer art that has the joy in it.

  Josh Ritter

  Art, Writing, Thinking

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• There is no hope of joy except in human relations.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Friendship, Happiness, Real Friends

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• What are the proper grounds for joy? Is it circumstance which will determine the stature of my spirit? Ah, no. It is choice. It is always a choice - in the face of any event - for joy.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Happy, Choices, Events

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• All the joy the world contains
  Has come through wishing happiness for others.
  All the misery the world contains
  Has come through wanting pleasure for oneself.

  Shantideva

  Motivational, Wish, World

  Shantideva, Padmakara Translation Group (2008). “The Way of the Bodhisattva”, p.214, Shambhala Publications

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• What power there is in our service when our actions line up with our mission, skills and joy.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Skills, Empowerment, Lines

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• I work grief and sadness out of my body when I dance, and I bring in joy and rhythm.

  Inga Muscio

  Grief, Sadness, Body

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• The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.

  Erica Jong

  Block, Past, Shadow

  FaceBook post by Erica Jong from Feb 06, 2012

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• Fill ev'ry glass, for wine inspires us,
  And fires us
  With courage, love and joy.
  Women and wine should life employ.
  Is there ought else on earth desirous?

  John Gay

  Life, Courage, Wine

  'The Beggar's Opera' (1728) act 2, sc. 1, air 19

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• Only by living at the edge of death can you understand the indescribable joy of life - Shogun.

  James Clavell

  Shoguns, Indescribable, Edges

  James Clavell (2009). “Shogun”, p.979, Dell

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