Alice Walker Quotes About Joy

Quotes about: Joy

• During my years of being close to people engaged in changing the world I have seen fear turn into courage. Sorrow into joy. Funerals into celebration. Because whatever the consequences, people, standing side by side, have expressed who they really are, and that ultimately they believe in the love of the world and each other enough to be that.

  Alice Walker

  Believe, Years, People

• What a burden to think one is conceived in sin rather than in pleasure; that one is born into evil rather than into joy.

  Alice Walker

  Thinking, Evil, Joy

  Alice Walker (2012). “Anything We Love Can Be Saved: A Writer's Activism”, p.23, Ballantine Books

• before I embark on any new venture, I ask myself: will the joy of doing this make me lose track of any concern for time? If the answer is yes, I proceed!

  Alice Walker

  Passion, New Ventures, Track

  Alice Walker (2013). “The Cushion in the Road: Meditation and Wandering as the Whole World Awakens to Being in Harm's Way”, p.145, New Press, The

• Helped are those who are content to be themselves; they will never lack mystery in their lives and the joys of self-discovery will be constant.

  Alice Walker

  Discovery, Self, Joy

  Alice Walker (1990). “The Temple of My Familiar”

• it is this broken road with pitfalls and sharp turns and unexpected traverses that has brought me joy and adventure.

  Alice Walker

  Adventure, Broken, Joy

• Resistance is the secret of joy!

  Alice Walker

  Joy, Secret, Resistance

  Possessing the Secret of Joy (1992) See Ricciardi 1; AliceWalker 8

• There are those who believe Black people possess the secret of joy and that it is this that will sustain them through any spiritual or moral or physical devastation.

  Alice Walker

  Spiritual, Believe, People

  Possessing the Secret of Joy epigraph (1992) See Ricciardi 1; AliceWalker 9

• In South Korea, they believe that when you turn 60, you've become a baby again and the rest of your life should be totally about joy and happiness, and people should leave you alone, and I just think that that's the height of intelligence.

  Alice Walker

  Baby, Believe, Thinking

  "No retreat" by Sara Wajid, www.theguardian.com. December 14, 2006.

• The earth is for joy, and dancing is a big part of that. And you dance with nature. Nature is always dancing. If you're not harassing it and killing it and mutilating it, nature is dancing. That's what the leaves are doing when the wind blows through them. We live in a magical wonderful universe. And just spoil it while thinking we can at some point go to heaven or some other planet.

  Alice Walker

  Blow, Thinking, Wind

  Source: electronicintifada.net

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