Joy Quotes - Page 26

• But life's joys are only joys if they can be shared.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Ifs

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• The really wonderful moments of joy in this world are not the moments of self-satisfaction, but self-forgetfulness. Standing on the edge of the Grand Canyon and contemplating your own greatness is pathological. At such moments we are made for a magnificent joy that comes from outside ourselves.

  John Piper

  Greatness, Self, World

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• JOY goes against the foundations of mathematics: it multiplies when we divide.

  Paulo Coelho

  Wisdom, Foundation, Wise Words

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Apr 26, 2011

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• Perhaps there could be no joy on this planet without an equal weight of pain to balance it out on some unknown scale.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Pain, Balance, Weight

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• Life is too short, Harry. And there's nowhere near enough joy in it. If you find it, grab it. Before it's gone.

  Jim Butcher

  Life Is Too Short, Gone, Enough

  Jim Butcher (2010). “Changes: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.102, Penguin

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• Pain is a byproduct of life. That’s the truth. Life sometimes sucks. That’s true for everyone. But if you don’t face the pain and the suck, you don’t ever get the other things either. Laughter. Joy. Love. Pain passes, but those things are worth fighting for. Worth dying for.

  Jim Butcher

  Laughter, Pain, Fighting

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• Enjoy your life. No curse hangs over you, nor did it ever. No devil chases after your soul. Sing and dance and be merry.

  Christopher Pike

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• Hope strengthens. Fear kills[...] That simple adage is master of every situation, every choice. Each morning we wake up, we get to choose between hope and fear and apply one of those emotions to everything we do. Do we greet things that come our way with joy? Or suspicion?

  Karen Marie Moning

  Morning, Simple, Choices

  Karen Marie Moning (2016). “The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned”, p.979, Dell

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• The unendurable is the beginning of the curve of joy.

  Djuna Barnes

  Curves, Unendurable

  Djuna Barnes, Thomas Stearns Eliot (2006). “Nightwood”, p.125, New Directions Publishing

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• She comprehended the perversity of life, that in the struggle lies the joy.

  Maya Angelou

  Lying, Struggle, Perversity

  Maya Angelou (2012). “The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou”, p.206, Modern Library

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• Joy is a mystery because it can happen anywhere, anytime, even under the most unpromising circumstances, even in the midst of suffering, with tears in its eyes.

  Frederick Buechner

  Healing, Eye, Suffering

  Frederick Buechner (1981). “The hungering dark”

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• Life is not just something to be endured. It is to be lived in joy, in a fullness without limit (p.82)

  Ernest Holmes

  Limits, Life Is, Fullness

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• To love means to open ourselves to the negative as well as the positive - to grief, sorrow, and disappointment as well as to joy, fulfillment, and an intensity of consciousness we did not know was possible before

  Rollo May

  Love, Life, Disappointment

  Rollo May (1969). “Love and will”

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• Happiness is like coke — something you get as a by-product in the process of making something else.

  Aldous Huxley

  Funny, Positive, Happiness

  1928 Point Counter Point, ch.30.

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• Love. It's so close to hate, it's almost indistinguishable. But this is how it was for the two of them. Love and hate. Life and death. Joy and anguish.

  Melissa de la Cruz

  Hate, Two, Life And Death

  Melissa de la Cruz (2010). “Revelations: Number 3 in series”, p.184, Hachette UK

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• Let us relish life as we live it, find joy in the journey, and share our love with family and friends.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Journey, Family And Friends, Our Love

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• ...nothing wonderful lasted forever. Joy was as fleeting as a shooting star that crossed the evening sky, ready to blink out at any moment.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Stars, Sky, Forever

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• There was pain, but there was also joy. It was in the tension between the two that life happened. Imperfect as it was, this world was real. Illusion was no substitute. I'd rather live a hard life of fact than a sweet life of lies.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Sweet, Pain, Real

  Karen Marie Moning (2016). “The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned”, p.1384, Dell

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• the joy that you give to others is the joy that comes back to you

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Christmas, Famous Inspirational, Giving

  John Greenleaf Whittier, “Somehow not only for Christmas”

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• Taking responsibility takes all the joy out of life, and drains a man to dust.

  Robert Jordan

  Responsibility, Men, Dust

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• Go forth into the busy world and love it. Interest yourself in its life, mingle kindly with its joys and sorrows.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  World And Love, Sorrow, Busy

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• I always thought the joy of reading a book is not knowing what happens next. (Leonard Shelby, Memento)

  Christopher Nolan

  Book, Reading, Knowing

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• You know that kind of quiver that trembles around through you when you are seeing something so strange and enchanting and wonderful that it is just a fearful joy to be alive and look at it; and you know how you gaze, and your lips turn dry and your breath comes short, but you wouldn't be anywhere but there, not for the world.

  Mark Twain

  Looks, Alive, World

  Mark Twain (2004). “The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories”, p.125, Penguin

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• The highest prize we can receive for creative work is the joy of being creative. Creative effort spent for any other reason than the joy of being in that light filled space, love, god, whatever we want to call it, is lacking in integrity. . .

  Marianne Williamson

  Art, Integrity, Creativity

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• When you feel someone else's pain and joy as powerfully as if it were your own, then you know you really loved them.

  Ann Brashares

  Friendship, Inspirational Love, Pain

  Ann Brashares (2005). “Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood”, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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