Joy Quotes - Page 22

• I use the term happiness to refer to the experience of joy, contentment, or positive well-being, combined with a sense that one's life is good, meaningful, and worthwhile.

  Sonja Lyubomirsky

  Meaningful, Life Is Good, Contentment

  Sonja Lyubomirsky (2007). “The How of Happiness: A New Approach to Getting the Life You Want”, p.37, Penguin

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• It is in this space of mastery over paradigms that people throw off addictions, live in constant joy, bring down empires, get locked up or burned at the stake or crucified or shot, and have impacts that last for millennia.

  Donella Meadows

  Impact, Space, People

  Donella Meadows (2008). “Thinking in Systems: A Primer”, p.165, Chelsea Green Publishing

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• Geometry is moribund. I want a lilt and joy to art.

  Ellsworth Kelly

  Art, Want, Geometry

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• Now, I believe in life, and I believe in the joy of human existence, but these things cannot be experienced except as we also face the despair, also face the anxiety that every human being has to face if he lives with any creativity at all.

  Rollo May

  Believe, Creativity, Anxiety

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• To be wise was to be above joy and sorrow, fear and pity, ambition and humiliation. It was to hate nothing and to love nothing, and above all to be utterly indifferent to the love and hate of others.

  Michael Ende

  Wise, Hate, Ambition

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• Those who rhapsodize about the ease and joy of childhood have perhaps forgotten what it's like to be 12 years old.

  Joyce Maynard

  Years, Childhood, Ease

  "Coming of Age with Judy Blume". www.nytimes.com. December 3, 1978.

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• Joy is uncaused and arises from within as the joy of Being.  It is an essential part of the inner state of peace, the state that has been called the peace of God.  It is your natural state, not something that you need to work hard for or struggle to attain.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Struggle, Hard Work, Essentials

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.187, New World Library

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• Love is simply creation's greatest joy.

  Hafez

  Love Is, Soul, Creation

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• True success is the progressive expansion of happiness. It is the ability to express spontaneous joy and share it with others.

  Deepak Chopra

  Expansion, Progressive, Spontaneous

  Twitter post from Aug 6, 2013

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• Our tears fatten upon our memories of joy.

  John Updike

  Memories, Tears, Our Memories

  John Updike (2011). “Higher Gossip: Essays and Criticism”, p.68, Random House

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• The reflections on a day well spent furnish us with joys more pleasing than ten thousand triumphs.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Happiness, Time, Reflection

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• The commonality in the human experience is the same. We have the same sorrows, and the same triumphs. Joy is joy is joy.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Sorrow, Triumph, Human Experience

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• Times of luxury do not last long, but pass away very quickly; nothing in this world can be long enjoyed.

  Gautama Buddha

  Change, Happiness, Time

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• Both the ancestry and posterity of Grief go further than the ancestry and posterity of Joy.

  Herman Melville

  Grief, Ancestry, Posterity

  Herman Melville, Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, G. Thomas Tanselle (1988). “Moby Dick, Or The Whale: Volume 6, Scholarly Edition”, p.464, Northwestern University Press

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• The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.

  Herman Melville

  Danger, Peril, Grows

  Herman Melville (2015). “Pierre or The Ambiguities: Works of Melville”, p.71, 谷月社

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• If you carry joy in your heart, you can heal any moment.

  Carlos Santana

  Life, Heart, Moments

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• The truth is life is full of joy and full of great sorrow, but you can't have one without the other.

  Andre Dubus

  Sorrow, Life Is, Truth Is

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• Anger devours almost all other good emotions. It deadens the soul. It numbs the heart to joy and gratitude and hope and tenderness and compassion and kindness.

  John Piper

  Gratitude, Kindness, Heart

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• All worldly joys are less than that one joy of doing kindnesses.

  John Wesley

  Kindness, Worldly

  John Wesley (1825). “Sermons on several occasions [ed. by T. Jackson].”, p.379

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• God is not a killjoy; he just opposes what kills joy.

  John Piper

  Killjoy

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• Let every hindrance to joy become the soil out of which joy blossoms.

  Elizabeth George

  Soil, Hindrance

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• My great joy is to give form to reality. Music is a great release, a great enjoyment to me. Eventually I'd like to write something of great importance. That's my ambition - to write something worthwhile.

  Jim Morrison

  Writing, Ambition, Reality

  "When You’re Strange" by Daniel Nester, www.poetryfoundation.org. October 19, 2011.

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• When you stand still, you reject the struggle, and you refuse to change and grow. Ultimately, you reject fulfillment, happiness, the dance for joy and everything else that is eternally good.

  Matthew Kelly

  Struggle, Fulfillment, Grows

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• Love's pure free joy when it works, but when it goes bad you pay for the good hours at loan-shark prices.

  David Mitchell

  Love, Sharks, Pay

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• I know that wine is, above all else, a blessing, a gift of nature, a joy as pure and elemental as the soil and vines and sunshine from which it springs.

  Robert Mondavi

  Spring, Wine, Sunshine

  Robert Mondavi (1999). “Harvests of Joy: How the Good Life Became Great Business”, p.16, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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