Joy And Sadness Quotes

• The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Happiness, Sad

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Dec 24, 2014

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• I too have known joy and sadness, and, on the whole, I prefer joy.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Sadness, Joy, Feeling Sad

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• Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.

  Dr. Seuss

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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  When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

  Khalil Gibran

  Moving On, Sympathy, Broken Heart

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.48, Lulu.com

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• And maybe that was how it was supposed to be...Joy and sadness were part of the package; the trick, perhaps,was to let yourself feel all of it, but to hold on to the joy just a little more tightly.

  Kristin Hannah

  Sadness, Joy, Littles

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• The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

  Mark Twain

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Mark Twain (2016). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain”, p.116, Chartwell

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• There can be no rainbow without a cloud and a storm.

  John H. Vincent

  Sadness, Adversity, Clouds

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 556, 1895.

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• The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.

  Khalil Gibran

  Love, Inspirational, Dream

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.48, Lulu.com

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• Crying is cleansing. There's a reason for tears, happiness or sadness.

  Dionne Warwick

  Sadness, Feeling Sad, Tears

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• Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Courage, Morning

  Joseph Campbell (2011). “A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living”, p.9, Joseph Campbell Foundation

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• We never taste a perfect joy; our happiest successes are mixed with sadness.

  Pierre Corneille

  Sadness, Perfect, Joy

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• Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.

  Arthur Koestler

  Motivational, Sad, Death

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  Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Joy and sadness come by turns.

  Walker Percy

  Sadness, Joy, Turns

  Walker Percy (2011). “The Moviegoer: A Novel”, p.84, Open Road Media

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• When you are sorrowful, look again.

  Khalil Gibran

  Sympathy, Condolences, Death Of A Loved One

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• There is a joy in sorrow which none but a mourner can know.

  Jean Paul

  Sad, Joy, Sorrow

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• I’m a big fan of history—applying the lessons as well as the joys and sadness. If we pay attention, we would see how we affect each other. In terms of time, we are not that far from one another. If we were to look back a century, it would seem like a long time; but, if we look at it by decades then it’s only 10 years, and by generations it’s only five.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Sadness, Years, Long

  Interview with Nicole Sealey, mosaicmagazine.org. September 6, 2013.

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• In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.

  William S. Burroughs

  Grief, Sadness, Sentimentality

  "Queer: A Novel". Book by William S. Burroughs, 1985.

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• Laugh and the world laughs with you!

  Grant Morrison

  Laughter, Sleep, Insomnia

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• In joy or sadness, flowers are our constant friends.

  Okakura Kakuzo

  Flower, Sadness, Garden

  Okakura Kakuzo (2000). “The Book of Tea the Illustrated Classic Edition”, p.84, Tuttle Publishing

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• Having lost religious faith and the humanistic values bound up with it, he [man] concentrated on technical and material values and lost the capacity for deep emotional experiences, for the joy and sadness that accompany them.

  Erich Fromm

  Religious, Sadness, Men

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• The drive of the story is sort of hinted at the beginning, is Joy and Sadness and those two characters. Especially Joy starting to understand that there's more to life than being happy. And so that's based on real life observations and things that we've learned as adults.

  Pete Docter

  Real, Character, Sadness

  "Inside Out and Lava: Sneak Peek". Interview with Tara Salinas, www.trippinwithtara.com. March 12, 2015.

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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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• It would no doubt be very sentimental to argue - but I would argue it nevertheless - that the peculiar combination of joy and sadness in bell music - both of clock chimes, and of change-ringing - is very typical of England. It is of a piece with the irony in which English people habitually address one another.

  A. N. Wilson

  Sadness, People, Joy

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