Mark Twain Quotes About Joy

• Comparison is the death of joy.

  Mark Twain

  Fitness Motivational, Joy, Comparison

• The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.

  Mark Twain

  Happiness, Bullying, Laughter

  Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.35, St. Martin's Press

• Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Strength, Happiness

  The Mysterious Stranger ch. 10 (1916)

• what is joy without sorrow? what is success without failure? what is a win without a loss? what is health without illness? you have to experience each if you are to appreciate the other. there is always going to be suffering. it’s how you look at your suffering, how you deal with it, that will define you.

  Mark Twain

  Loss, Winning, Appreciate

• Some people bring joy wherever they go, and some people bring joy whenever they go.

  Mark Twain

  People, Joy

• Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

  Mark Twain

  Friendship, Happiness, Marriage

  Mark Twain (2015). “Following the Equator: "A Journey Around the World"”, p.484, eKitap Projesi

• [Do you worry unnecessarily about the future? Remember most fears are just False Evidence Appearing Real. Don't let unfounded fears rob you of the joys of life or you too will say...] There has been much tragedy in my life; [and] at least half of it actually happened.

  Mark Twain

  Real, Worry, Joy

• To get the full value of joy
  You must have someone to divide it with.
  After all these years I see that I was mistaken about Eve
  in the beginning; it is better to live outside the Garden
  with her than inside it without her.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Garden, Years

• Happiness ain't a thing in itself -it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. And so, as soon as the novelty is over and the force of the contrast dulled, it ain't happiness any longer, and you have to get something fresh.

  Mark Twain

  Happiness, Laughter, Joy

• A myriad of men are born; they labor and sweat and struggle; ...they squabble and scold and fight; they scramble for little mean advantages over each other; age creeps upon them; infirmities follow; ...those they love are taken from them, and the joy of life is turned to aching grief. It comes at last--the only unpoisoned gift earth ever had for them--and they vanish from a world where they were of no consequence, ...a world which will lament them a day and forget them forever.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Grief, Struggle

• My mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart-a heart so large that everybody's joys found welcome in it, and hospitable accommodation.

  Mark Twain

  Family, Mothers Day, Mom

  Mark Twain, Milton Meltzer (2002). “Mark Twain Himself: A Pictorial Biography”, p.22, University of Missouri Press

• Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.

  Mark Twain

  Happiness, Humor, Joy

  Following the Equator ch. 10, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar" (1897)

• There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.

  Mark Twain

  Happiness, Happy, People

  Mark Twain (2000). “The Jumping Frog: And 18 Other Stories”, p.103, Book Tree

• Let your joy be unconfined!

  Mark Twain

  Joy

• On with dance, let joy be unconfined, is my motto; whether there's any dance to dance or any joy to unconfined.

  Mark Twain

  Dance, Dancing, Joy

  Mark Twain, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays”, p.790, GENERAL PRESS

• On with the dance, let the joy be unconfined.

  Mark Twain

  Joy, Consciousness

• You know that kind of quiver that trembles around through you when you are seeing something so strange and enchanting and wonderful that it is just a fearful joy to be alive and look at it; and you know how you gaze, and your lips turn dry and your breath comes short, but you wouldn't be anywhere but there, not for the world.

  Mark Twain

  Joy, Looks, Alive

  Mark Twain (2004). “The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories”, p.125, Penguin

• The joy of killing! the joy of seeing killing done - these are traits of the human race at large.

  Mark Twain

  Race, Joy, Done

  Mark Twain (2014). “Following The Equator”, p.396, Jazzybee Verlag

• Everybody lies...every day, every hour, awake, asleep, in his dreams, in his joy, in his mourning. If he keeps his tongue still his hands, his feet, his eyes, his attitude will convey deception.

  Mark Twain

  Dream, Attitude, Lying

  Mark Twain, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays”, p.2131, GENERAL PRESS

• The more you join with people in their joys and their sorrows, the more nearer and dearer they come to be to you.

  Mark Twain

  People, Joy, Sorrow

  Mark Twain “Tom Sawyer Collection: All Four Books”, Lulu.com

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

  Mark Twain

  Joy, Secret, Sorrow

• The human being places sexual intercourse above all other joys, but leaves it out of his heaven.

  Mark Twain

  Joy, Heaven, Intercourse

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