Joy Quotes - Page 11

• Beauty is the experience that gives us a sense of joy and a sense of peace simultaneously.

  Rollo May

  Beauty, Peace, Giving

  Rollo May (1985). “My Quest for Beauty”, W W Norton & Company Incorporated

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• When humor goes, there goes civilization.

  Erma Bombeck

  Happiness, Laughter, Humor

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• A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.

  Phyllis Diller

  Funny, Happiness, Smile

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• Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Happiness, Laughter, Lying

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• I have always felt that laughter in the face of reality is probably the finest sound there is and will last until the day when the game is called on account of darkness. In this world, a good time to laugh is any time you can.

  Linda Ellerbee

  Happiness, Laughter, Reality

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• There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

  Henry Ford

  Happiness, Work, Inspiration

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• What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree.

  Sigmund Freud

  Happiness, Happy, Inner Peace

  Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Anna Freud, Carrie Lee Rothgeb (1961). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

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• When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things - not the great occasions - that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.

  Bob Hope

  Inspirational, Happiness, Laughter

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• Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.

  Langston Hughes

  Happiness, Laughter, Humor

  Langston Hughes (2002). “The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: Essays on art, race, politics, and world affairs”, p.525, University of Missouri Press

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• Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.

  Immanuel Kant

  Happiness, Happy, Laughter

  'Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Ethics' (1785, translation by T. K. Abbott) sect. 2

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• They hear a voice in every wind, And snatch a fearful joy.

  Thomas Gray

  Wind, Voice, Fearful

  'Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College' (1747) l. 38

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• The joy late coming late departs.

  John L. Bates

  Late

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 409-10, Some Sweet Day, 1922.

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• If there is a virtue in the world at which we should always aim, it is cheerfulness.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  World, Virtue, Should

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• There is a curiously sharp sense of joy - or perhaps better expressed, a sense of mild ecstasy - that comes when you find the particular form required by your creation.

  Rollo May

  Creation, Form, Ecstasy

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.122, W. W. Norton & Company

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• If you do anything well, it becomes enjoyable. To keep enjoying something, you need to increase its complexity.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Needs, Increase, Complexity

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• All human joys are swift of wing, For heaven doth so allot it; That when you get an easy thing, You find you haven't got it

  Eugene Field

  Wings, Heaven, Easy

  Eugene Field, Charles Walter Brown (1905). “John Smith, U.S.A.”

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• Joy comes from using your potential.

  William Schutz

  Motivational, Happiness, Inner Peace

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• All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.

  Lord Byron

  Happiness, Meaningful, Angel

  Lord Byron (2013). “Byron: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.245, Routledge

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• Joy, in Nature's wide dominion, Mightiest cause of all is found; And 'tis joy that moves the pinion When the wheel of time goes round.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Moving, Dominion, Causes

  Friedrich Schiller (1851). “The Poems of Schiller, Complete: Including All His Early Suppressed Pieces”, p.64

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• Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Peace, Spirit, Helping

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.80, Courier Corporation

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• And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, till the Devil whispered behind the leaves 'It's pretty, but is it Art?'

  Rudyard Kipling

  Art, Rude, Devil

  Barrack-Room Ballads (1892) "The Conundrum of the Workshops"

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• Ka found it very soothing: for the first time in years, he felt part of a family. In spite of the trials and responsibilities of what was called 'family', he saw now the joys of its unyielding togetherness, and was sorry not to have known more of it in his life.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Sorry, Responsibility, Years

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• Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Happiness, Patience, Time

  Soren Kierkegaard (1946). “Either/or”

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• If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.

  Khalil Gibran

  Love, Motivational, Family

  Prophet (1923) "On Work"

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• The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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

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