Great Joy Quotes - Page 4

Of course, it's a great joy to be able to perform. And that love affair with an audience, where you give love and they give love back - it's a romantic situation.

Barry Crocker

Love, Giving, Joy

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Belong purportedly to certain groups say, "We are the people and not the others." That is something that we cannot allow to happen. That is something that I think at the time in the GDR - at the time when we had this in the GDR, where the people stood in the street and said, "We are the people," that is something that filled me with great joy.

Angela Merkel

Thinking, People, Joy

Remarks by President Obama and Chancellor Merkel of Germany in a Joint Press Conference, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. November 17, 2016.

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That's the great paradox of living on this earth, that in the midst of great pain you can have great joy as well. If we didn't have those things we'd just be numb.

Kathy Mattea

Pain, Joy, Earth

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It's in great joy that we grasp truth.

Mark Leyner

Joy

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My mother was someone that walked into a room and lit it up. She made friends easily and she communicated her enthusiasms with great joy. I always wanted to be more like my mother than I am. I loved and admired her very deeply.

Meryl Streep

Mother, Joy, Rooms

Source: the-talks.com

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You took me to adventure and to love. We two have shared great joy and great sorrow. And now I stand at the gate of the paddock watching you run in an ecstasy of freedom, knowing you will return to stand quietly, loyally, beside me.

Pam Brown

Running, Horse, Adventure

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Life is all about toiling and labor. But obviously I get great joy in confronting challenge and taking risk.

Sufjan Stevens

Joy, Challenges, Risk

Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. January 31, 2011.

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I'm an older, wall-eyed, overweight, tweedy writer who has been lucky enough to be asked to play various iterations of himself in a certain realm of popular cultutre. That gives me great joy and excitement, but I don't go to the media saying, "And I'm also the world's greatest actor."

John Hodgman

Wall, Media, Play

Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. October 21, 2008.

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The spectrum that most people exist in this world is very mundane and very unhappy. Certainly human beings are capable of experiencing great joy and happiness.

Frederick Lenz

Inspirational, Buddhism, People

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I love fashion as much as I love basketball! It is a great joy for me to express myself through designing my own collection.

Hakeem Olajuwon

Basketball, Fashion, Design

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Blow, bugles of battle, the marches of peace; East, west, north, and south let the long quarrel cease; Sing the song of great joy that the angels began, Sing the glory to God and of good-will to man!

John Greenleaf Whittier

Christmas, Song, Angel

John Greenleaf Whittier (1857*). “Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.393

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An audience sabotages my freedom, devastates my innocence, corrupts my integrity, inhibits my great joy - and of course gives me further to fall.

Selima Hill

Integrity, Fall, Giving

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A good Soul hath neither too great joy, nor too great sorrow: for it rejoiceth in goodness; and it sorroweth in wickedness. By the means whereof, when it beholdeth all things, and seeth the good and bad so mingled together, it can neither rejoice greatly; nor be grieved with over much sorrow.

Pythagoras

Mean, Joy, Soul

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Singing is my passion, my first love and the secret of my energy. Music to me is like finding my inner self, my soul. It gives me a great joy to see audiences enjoying with me. I have given my heart to singing. When I sing, I can feel romance in everything around me.

Kailash Kher

Passion, Heart, First Love

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I buy art in order to live with it at home or in the office, never to store it away in a vault. In fact, living with art has been one of the great joys of my life. It is a private pleasure, however, and not one that I have an urge to inflict on other people.

Michael Audain

Art, Home, Order

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Live your life as though there is great joy to be experienced... an abundance of goodness in each person you come in contact with, and the knowledge that you have enough inner wisdom to answer the mysteries that challenge you.

Meladee McCarty

Joy, Live Your Life, Challenges

Meladee McCarty (1996). “Daily Journal of Kindness: A Year Long Guide for Creating Your Own Kindness Revolution”, Hci

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A man who doesn't detest a bad government is a fool. And if there were such a thing as a good government on earth, it would be a great joy to serve it.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Men, Joy, Fool

Ursula K. Le Guin (2000). “The Left Hand of Darkness”, p.146, Penguin

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Friendship after the flesh is very easily destroyed on some slight pretext, since it is not held firm by spiritual perception. But when a person is spiritually awakened, even if something irritates him, the bond of love is not dissolved; rekindling himself with warmth of the love of God, he quickly recovers himself and with great joy seeks his neighbor's love, even though he has been gravely wronged or insulted by him. For sweetness of God completely consumes the bitterness of the quarrel.

Diadochos of Photiki

Spiritual, Peace, Love Is

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Working in South Africa and the people in Johannesburg get under your skin. It stays with you. It's a place I want to take my children back to. It's a place that filled me with great joy and inspiration but also sadness. I think it's one of the most complex places on the planet.

Ryan Phillippe

Children, Inspiration, Sadness

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When it is going well, it is the best job [writing] in the world. For those few hours, you are god, in control of everything. However, for me, the great joy of writing is that it has allowed me to travel the world in search of stories.

Michael Scott

Jobs, Writing, Best Job

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The church-bells of innumerable sects are all chime-bells to-day, ringing in sweet accordance throughout many lands, and awaking a great joy in the heart of our common humanity.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Christmas, Sweet, Heart

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Life is a thing of many stages and moving parts. What we do with ease at one time of life we can hardly manage at another. What we could not fathom doing when we were young, we find great joy in when we are old. Like the seasons through which we move, life itself is a never-ending series of harvests, a different fruit for every time.

Joan D. Chittister

Moving, Joy, Ease

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I cannot sleep - great joy is as restless as sorrow.

Fanny Burney

Sleep, Joy, Sorrow

Fanny Burney (1820). “Evelina; Or, The History of a Young Lady's Introduction to the World”, p.259

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My great joy in working on anything is stepping out in front of the camera and working with the actors.

Rob Marshall

Joy, Cameras, Actors

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Love lent me wings; my path was like a stair;
A lamp unto my feet, that sun was given;
And death was safety and great joy to find;
But dying now, I shall not climb to Heaven.

Michelangelo

Wings, Feet, Safety

Michelangelo Buonarroti, Tommaso Campanella (1878). “The Sonnets of Michael Angelo Buonarroti and Tommaso Campanella”

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