Joy Quotes - Page 12

• Oh who can tell the range of joy or set the bounds of beauty?

  Sara Teasdale

  Happiness, Beauty, Range

  Sara Teasdale (1937). “Collected poems”

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• Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

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• Joys do not stay, but take wing and fly away.

  Martial

  Wings, Fly Away

  "Epigrams". Book I. 16. 8, c. 80-104 AD.

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• Joys
  Are bubble-like--what makes them bursts them too.

  Philip James Bailey

  Bubbles

  Philip James Bailey (1857). “Festus: a poem”, p.553

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• This world in which we live needs beauty in order not to sink into despair. Beauty, like truth, brings joy to the human heart, and is that precious fruit which resists the erosion of time, which unites generations and enables them to be one in admiration. And all this through the work of your hands . . . Remember that you are the custodians of beauty in the world.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Heart, Hands, Order

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• If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same time, because a dose of joy is a spiritual cure.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  God, Spiritual, Jobs

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• It is looking for the joys that come in small, precious packages and making the most of them, knowing that big packages of joy are few and far between.

  Wilferd Peterson

  Knowing, Bigs, Packages

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• Without zest, what is life? Just waiting for death? It can't be anything else. Only with zest do you live; otherwise you vegetate.

  Rajneesh

  Zest, Waiting, What Is Life

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• When the power of imparting joy is equal to the will, the human soul requires no other heaven.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Heaven, Soul, Equal

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley (1829). “The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats. Complete in One Volume”

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• Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Helen Keller (2011). “To Live, to Think, to Hope: Inspirational Quotes by Helen Keller”, p.153, Matthew Gordon

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• If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Life, Change, Happiness

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.152, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I always knew looking back on my tears would bring me laughter, but I never knew looking back on my laughter would make me cry.

  Cat Stevens

  Love, Happiness, Laughter

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• The joy in life is to be used for a purpose. I want to be used up when I die.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Purpose, Want, Life Is

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• The happiness and unhappiness of the rational, social animal depends not on what he feels but on what he does; just as his virtue and vice consist not in feeling but in doing.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Happiness, Laughter, Animal

  "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book IX, (16), (c. 161 - 180 AD).

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• Know that joy is rarer, more difficult, and more beautiful than sadness. Once you make this all-important discovery, you must embrace joy as a moral obligation.

  Andre Gide

  Beautiful, Sadness, Discovery

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• We have within ourselves Enough to fill the present day with joy, And overspread the future years with hope.

  William Wordsworth

  Years, Enough, Present Day

  William Wordsworth (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Wordsworth (Illustrated)”, p.2094, Delphi Classics

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• Some of the secret joys of living are not found by rushing from point A to point B, but by inventing some imaginary letters along the way.

  Douglas Pagels

  Success, Sarcastic, Stress

  Douglas Pagels (2005). “Required Reading for All Teenagers: Or at Least for One who is Very Important to Me!”, p.54, Blue Mountain Arts, Inc.

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• The joy in motherhood comes in moments. There will be hard times and frustrating times, but amid the challenges there are shining moments of joy and satisfaction.

  M. Russell Ballard

  Mother, Baby, Hard Times

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• In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Happiness, War, Sorrow

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.17

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• Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Happiness, Happy, Lasts

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.87

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• Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too.

  Frederick Buechner

  Forgiveness, Peace, Ignorance

  FaceBook post by Frederick Buechner from Nov 15, 2016

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• Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.

  Jean Paul

  Happiness, Laughter, Dew

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• Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.

  George Santayana

  Happiness, Laughter, Mad

  Life of Reason (1905) vol. 1, ch. 10

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• This so much joy! This so much joy! If I should fail, what poverty! And yet, as poor as I Have ventured all upon a throw; Have gained! Yes! Hesitated so this side the victory!

  Emily Dickinson

  Victory, Poverty, Sides

  Emily Dickinson (2016). “The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.8, First Avenue Editions

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• Joy is never in our power and pleasure often is

  C. S. Lewis

  Often Is, Pleasure

  C. S. Lewis (1966). “Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life”, p.28, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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