Joy Quotes - Page 31

• Every time I told my cocker spaniel, Taffy, my very first dog, that we were going for a walk, she would launch into a celebratory dance that ended with her racing around the room, always clockwise, and faster and faster, as if her joy could not be possibly contained. Even as a young boy I knew that hardly any creature could express joy so vividly as a dog.

  Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson

  Family, Dog, Boys

  Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson (1998). “Dogs Never Lie about Love: Reflections on the Emotional World of Dogs”, Broadway Books

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• A hidden Bliss is at the root of things.
  A mute Delight regards Time's countless works:
  To house God's joy in things Space gave wide room,
  To house God's joy in self our souls were born.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Time, Self, Roots

  Sri Aurobindo (1994). “Gems from Sri Aurobindo, 2nd Series”, p.14, Lotus Press

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• The primary joy of life is acceptance, approval, the sense of appreciation and companionship of our human comrades. Many men do not understand that the need for fellowship is really as deep as the need for food, and so they go through life accepting many substitutes for genuine, warm, simple.

  Joshua L. Liebman

  Love, Wise, Appreciation

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• Why do we protect children from life? It's no wonder that we become afraid to live. We're not told what life really is. We're not told that life is joy and wonder and magic and even rapture, if you can get involved enough. We're not told that life is also pain, misery, despair, unhappiness, and tears. I don't know about you, but I don't want to miss any of it. I want to embrace life, and I want to find out what it's all about. I wouldn't want to go through life without knowing what it is to cry.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Life, Children, Pain

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• Don't ever believe that you are going to be peaceful-life is not like that. When you are changing all the time, you've got to continue to keep adjusting to change, which means that you are going to be constantly facing new obstacles. That's the joy of living. And once you are involved in the process of becoming, there is no stopping. You're doomed! You're gone! But what a fantastic journey! Every day is new. Every flower is new. Every face is new. Everything in the world is new, every morning of your life. Stop seeing it as a drag!

  Leo Buscaglia

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  LEO BUSCAGLIA, PH.D. (1982). “LIVING, LOVING & LEARNING”

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• Today I will simply accept. I will relinquish the need to be in resistance to myself and my environment in any way. I will move forward in joy by accepting where I am right now.

  Melody Beattie

  Moving On, Moving Forward, Needs

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• When you're tempted to be upset, ask yourself 'Is this worth giving up my joy?'

  Joel Osteen

  Giving Up, Upset, Tempted

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• I want to continue to encourage as many people as I can to open their hearts to life, because if I know anything for sure, it's that opening my own heart is what has brought me my greatest success and joy.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Heart, People, Want

  Oprah Winfrey (2014). “What I Know for Sure”, p.95, Pan Macmillan

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  The most important lesson that man can learn from life, is not that there is pain in this world, but that it is possible for him to transmute it into joy.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Pain, Men, Important

  Rabindranath Tagore (2016). “SĀDHANĀ - The Realisation of life”, p.37, Rabindranath Tagore

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• Without dark clouds in our lives, we would never know the joy of sunshine. We can become callous and unteachable if we do not learn from pain.

  Billy Graham

  Pain, Sunshine, Dark

  Billy Graham, Franklin Graham, Donna Lee Toney (2011). “Billy Graham in Quotes”, p.79, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Most successful people find out that the attainment of their goals doesn't necessarily bring them the happiness and joy they assumed; their happiness is short-lived.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Successful

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• I do think that there's art that is tortured, but I prefer art that has the joy in it.

  Josh Ritter

  Art, Writing, Thinking

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• We laugh to survive. Then, with joy we thrive.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Laughing, Thrive

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• It is of the small joys and little pleasures that the greatest of our days are built.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Heartache, Greatest Love, Littles

  Mary Anne Radmacher (2008). “Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life”, p.116, Conari Press

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• What are the proper grounds for joy? Is it circumstance which will determine the stature of my spirit? Ah, no. It is choice. It is always a choice - in the face of any event - for joy.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Happy, Choices, Events

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• All the joy the world contains
  Has come through wishing happiness for others.
  All the misery the world contains
  Has come through wanting pleasure for oneself.

  Shantideva

  Motivational, Wish, World

  Shantideva, Padmakara Translation Group (2008). “The Way of the Bodhisattva”, p.214, Shambhala Publications

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• What power there is in our service when our actions line up with our mission, skills and joy.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Skills, Empowerment, Lines

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• I work grief and sadness out of my body when I dance, and I bring in joy and rhythm.

  Inga Muscio

  Grief, Sadness, Body

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• The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.

  Erica Jong

  Block, Past, Shadow

  FaceBook post by Erica Jong from Feb 06, 2012

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• Into the void of silence, into the empty space of nothing, the joy of life is unfurled.

  C. S. Lewis

  Life, Space, Silence

  C. S. Lewis, Aurand Harris (1985). “The Magician's Nephew”, p.21, Dramatic Publishing

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• Poetry, at least the kind I write, is written out of immediate need; it is written out of pain, joy, and experience too great to be borne until it is ordered into words. And then it is written to be shared.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Pain, Writing, Needs

  "The Ordering of Love: The New and Collected Poems of Madeleine L'Engle". Book by Madeleine L'Engle, 2005.

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• My joy, my grief, my hope, my love,
  Did all within this circle move!

  Edmund Waller

  Grief, Moving, Circles

  Edmund Waller, Elijah Fenton (1772). “The Works of Edmund Waller, Esq. in verse and prose. Published by Mr. Fenton. (Observations on some of Mr. Waller's poems.) L.P.”, p.54

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• You can't imagine the joy I feel when I hear that something I've said or done or written has helped others to regain their sense of dignity, to motivate them to develop their unique
  potential, to encourage them to reach out to others in love.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Unique, Done, Dignity

  Interview with Veronica M. Hay, A Magazine of People and Possibilities, www.peopleandpossibilities.com. 1998.

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• To me, it's our job as artists. You must bring joy.

  Bobby McFerrin

  Jobs, Artist

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• Laughter is equally the expression of extreme anguish and horror as of joy: as there are tears of sorrow and tears of joy, so is there a laugh of terror and a laugh of merriment.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Laughter, Expression, Laughing

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1858). “The complete works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an introductory essay upon his philosophical and theological opinions”, p.156

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