Joy Quotes - Page 17

• Are you jealous of the ocean’s generosity? Why would you refuse to give this joy to anyone? Fish don’t hold the sacred liquid in cups! They swim the huge fluid freedom.

  Rumi

  Ocean, Jealous, Generosity

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• Joy is the reflex of terror.

  Victor Hugo

  Reflexes, Terror

  Victor Hugo (2000). “Les Mis??rables”, p.488, Modern Library

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• Body tension will always be present if our good feeing is just ordinary, self-centered happiness. Joy has no tension in it, because joy accepts whatever is as it is.

  Joko Beck

  Self, Ordinary, Body

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• Now and then in life, love catches you unawares, illuminating the dark corners of your mind, and filling them with radiance. Once in awhile you are faced with a beauty and a joy that takes your soul, all unprepared, by assault.

  Jennifer Worth

  Love Life, Dark, Soul

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• The sweetness of reunion is the joy of heaven.

  Richard Paul Evans

  Heaven, Reunion, Sweetness

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• Lose what? A man only has a soul to be won or lost; apart from his life, he has nothing. Past or future lives do not matter - at the moment you are living this one, and you should do so with silent comprehension, joy and enthusiasm. What you must not lose is your enthusiasm.

  Paulo Coelho

  Past, Men, Soul

  Paulo Coelho (2015). “Warrior of the Light -”, p.3, Booklassic

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• Do what you love. Do what makes your heart sing. And NEVER do it for the money, Go to work to spread joy.

  Marianne Williamson

  Heart, Spread, What You Love

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• It's all well and good saying you avoid pain by avoiding relationships, but what about the wonderful things you're avoiding as well? What about the joy and the intimacy and the trust that come with finding someone you love?

  Jane Green

  Pain, Someone You Love, Wonderful

  Jane Green (2000). “Bookends”, p.185, Penguin UK

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• Much that was called religion has carried an unconscious attitude of hostility toward life. True religion must teach that life is filled with joys pleasing to the eye of God, that knowledge without action is empty. All men must see that the teaching of religion by rules and rote is largely a hoax. The proper teaching is recognized with ease. You can know it without fail because it awakens within you that sensation which tells you this is something you’ve always known.

  Frank Herbert

  Life, Attitude, Teaching

  Frank Herbert (2010). “Dune”, p.422, Hachette UK

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• Marriage provides the solace of worked-on friendship and the joy of being known profoundly.

  Imogen Stubbs

  Love, Marriage, Solace

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• How we feel about ourselves, the joy we get from living, ultimately depends directly on how the mind filters and interprets everyday experiences. Whether we are happy depends on inner harmony, not on the controls we are able to exert over the great forces of the universe.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Happiness, Laughter, Everyday

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2001). “Flow: the psychology of optimal experience”

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• Christmas is the season of joy, of holiday greetings exchanged, of gift-giving,and of families united.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Christmas, Holiday, Giving

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• Spread joy. Chase your wildest dreams.

  Patch Adams

  Happiness, Success, Graduation

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• The myriad things are complete in us. There is no greater joy than to reflect on ourselves and become sincere.

  Mencius

  Happiness, Sincere, Greater

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• Each present joy or sorrow seems the chief.

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Sorrow, Chiefs

  William Shakespeare, Thomas Dolby (1832). “The Shakespearian Dictionary, Forming a General Index to All the Popular Expressions, and Most Striking Passages in the Works of Shakespeare, from a Few Words to Fifty Or More Lines ... By T. Dolby”, p.260

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• Serene will be our days, and bright and happy will our nature be, when love is an unerring light, and joy its own security.

  William Wordsworth

  Uplifting, Love Is, Light

  William Wordsworth (1837). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England, Now First Published with His Works ...”, p.368

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• The purpose of life is joy! When you're in joy, you attract the highest and best in every area of your life. Joy increases to the exact degree that you deliberately increase your good thoughts, good words, and good actions. I've found in my life that the easiest way to increase my joy is to religiously practice gratitude until I'm a gratitude machine!

  Rhonda Byrne

  Inspirational, Life, Karma

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• Have a smile for breakfast, you'll be shitting joy by lunch.

  Joe Abercrombie

  Lunch, Breakfast

  Joe Abercrombie (2015). “The Great Leveller: Best Served Cold, The Heroes and Red Country”, p.388, Hachette UK

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• Happiness requires problems

  Harry Levi Hollingworth

  Happiness, Laughter, Problem

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• The glow of satisfaction which follows the consciousness of doing our level best never comes to a human being from any other experience.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Happiness, Laughter, Levels

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• If you would find happiness and joy, lose your life in some noble cause. A worthy purpose must be at the center of every worthy life.

  Jack H. Goaslind

  Life, Finding Happiness, Purpose

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• Pain shared is pain lessened; joy shared is joy increased. Thus do we refute entropy.

  Spider Robinson

  Pain, Empathy, Entropy

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• Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

  Euripides

  Marriage, Pain

  Euripides, Dudley Fitts, Robert Fitzgerald (1936). “The Alcestis of Euripides: An English Version”

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• The melancholy joys of evils pass'd, For he who much has suffer'd, much will know.

  Homer

  Evil, Suffering, Melancholy

  Homer (2015). “The Odyssey”, p.563, Homer

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• Dance expresses joy better than anything else.

  Bob Fosse

  Dancing

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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