Joy Quotes - Page 36

• Yes, there truly is a joy to giving.

  Charles Bronfman

  Giving

  Charles Bronfman, Jeffrey R. Solomon (2009). “The Art of Giving: Where the Soul Meets a Business Plan”, p.17, John Wiley & Sons

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• Life has its pains and evils-its bitter disappointments; but like a good novel and in healthful length of days, there is infinite joy in seeing the World, the most interesting of continued stories, unfold.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Uplifting, Pain, Disappointment

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• The deepest poverty is the inability of joy, the tediousness of a life considered absurd and contradictory. This poverty is widespread today, in very different forms in the materially rich as well as the poor countries. The inability of joy presupposes and produces the inability to love, produces jealousy, avarice - all defects that devastate the life of individuals and of the world. This is why we are in need of a new evangelization - if the art of living remains an unknown, nothing else works... this art can only be communicated by [one] who has life - he who is the Gospel personified.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Faith, Country, Art

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• Only the soul that knows the mighty grief can know the mighty rapture. Sorrows come to stretch out spaces in the heart for joy.

  Edwin Markham

  Grief, Heart, Space

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• To pursue joy is to lose it. The only way to get it is to follow steadily the path of duty.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Way, Path, Duty

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• Gratitude to God is to accept everything, even my problems, with joy.

  Mother Teresa

  Gratitude, Problem, Accepting

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• The joy of life is variety; the tenderest love requires to be rekindled by intervals of absence.

  Samuel Johnson

  Diversity, Life Is, Absence

  Samuel Johnson (1787). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with His Life, and Notes on His Lives of the Poets, by Sir John Hawkins, Knt. In Eleven Volumes ...”, p.156

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• In moments of surprise we catch at least a glimpse of the joy to which gratefulness opens the door.

  David Steindl-Rast

  Gratitude, Doors, Glimpse

  David Steindl-Rast (1984). “Gratefulness, the Heart of Prayer: An Approach to Life in Fullness”, p.11, Paulist Press

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• Without love a man is just a body, an empty temple without the deity. With love the deity arrives, the temple is no more empty. That's why love gives such fullness, such deep contentment, such tremendously overflowing joy. Remain in love and let love be the door to the divine.

  Rajneesh

  Love, Men, Doors

  Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, Osho (1984). “You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet: Initiation Talks Between Master and Disciple”, Osho International Foundation

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• A really spiritual person will live life as an art, will create a deep harmony between the body and the consciousness. And this is the greatest art there is. His life will be a joy to see. And he will be fragrant, for the sheer reason that there is no split in his being. The very unity makes him organic; the wound of division is healed.

  Rajneesh

  Spiritual, Art, Live Life

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• The momentary thrill of getting rarely equals the lasting joy of giving.

  William Arthur Ward

  Giving, Thrill, Lasting

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• Spirituality lies in regarding existence merely as a vehicle for contemplation, and contemplation merely a vehicle for joy.

  George Santayana

  Spiritual, Lying, Soul

  George Santayana (1936). “The Philosophy of Santayana”

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• When you have emptied all content - thoughts, desires, memories, projections, hopes - when all is gone, for the first time you find yourself, because you are nothing but that pure space, that virgin space within you. Unburdened by anything, that contentless consciousness, that's what you are! Seeing it, realizing it, one is free. One is freedom, one is joy, one is bliss.

  Rajneesh

  Memories, Space, Finding Yourself

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• A great deal of the joy of life consists in doing perfectly, or at least to the best of one's ability, everything which one attempts to do. There is a sense of satisfaction, a pride in surveying such a work, a work which is rounded, full, exact, complete in all its parts-which the superficial man, who leaves his work in a slovenly, slipshod, half-finished condition can never know. It is this conscientious completeness which turns work into art. The smallest thing, well done, becomes artistic.

  William Matthews

  Art, Pride, Men

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• We teach what we like to learn and the reason many people go into teaching is vicariously to reexperience the primary joy experienced the first time they learned something they loved.

  Stephen Brookfield

  Teacher, Appreciation, Teaching

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• Quality in education is what makes learning a pleasure and a joy.

  Myron Tribus

  Teaching, Learning, Quality

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• In the broader sense, work is the means to achieve happiness, prosperity. and salvation. When work and duty and joy are commingled, then man is at his best.

  J. Richard Clarke

  Happiness, Mean, Men

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• Something the heart must have to cherish, Must love and joy and sorrow learn; Something with passion clasp, or perish And in itself to ashes burn.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Passion, Learning, Heart

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2008). “Michael Angelo and Translations”, p.289, Wildside Press LLC

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• An element of abstention, of restraint, must enter into all finer joys.

  Vida Dutton Scudder

  Motivational, Self Control, Elements

  Vida Dutton Scudder (1939). “The privilege of age: essays secular and spiritual”

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• To be granted some kind of usable talent and to be able to use it to the fullest extent of which you are capable - this, to me, is a kind of joy that is almost unequaled.

  Lawrence Welk

  Use, Able, Talent

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

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• Compassionate people are geniuses in the art of living, more necessary to the dignity, security, and joy of humanity than the discoverers of knowledge.

  Albert Einstein

  Art, Peace, People

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• Our goal should be to achieve joy

  Ana Castillo

  Goal, Achieve, Should

  Ana Castillo (1994). “Massacre of the Dreamers: Essays on Xicanisma”

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• One of the great undiscovered joys of life comes from doing everything one attempts to the best of one's ability. The smallest task, well done, becomes a miracle of achievement.

  Og Mandino

  Success, Achievement, Miracle

  Og Mandino (2011). “The Greatest Salesman in the World, Part II: The End of the Story”, p.125, Bantam

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• Sunny days wouldn't be special, if it wasn't for rain.
  Joy wouldn't feel so good, if it wasn't for pain.
  Death gotta be easy, 'cause life is hard;
  It'll leave you physically, mentally, and emotionally scarred.

  Curtis Jackson

  Pain, Rain, Life Is Hard

  "Song: 'Many Men (Wish Death)'". 2003.

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• We learn as much from sorrow as from joy, as much from illness as from health, from handicap as from advantage and indeed perhaps more.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Learning, Healthy, Sorrow

  Pearl S. Buck (2012). “The Child Who Never Grew: A Memoir”, p.60, Open Road Media

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