Joy Quotes - Page 32

• The poor are the human manure in which grow the harvests of life, the harvests of joy which the rich reap.

  Octave Mirbeau

  Poverty, Rich, Harvest

  Octave Mirbeau (1900). “A Chambermaid's Diary”

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• The criterion for what is good is based on whether it relieves someone, brings joy, or soothes a distress.

  Bert Hellinger

  Goodness, Criteria, Distress

  Bert Hellinger, Gabriele Ten Hövel (1999). “Acknowledging what is: Conversations with Bert Hellinger”, p.162, Zeig Tucker & Theisen Publishers

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• We should, to begin with, think that God leads a very interesting life, and that he is full of joy. Undoubtedly he is the most joyous being in the universe. The abundance of his love and generosity is inseparable from his infinite joy. All of the good and beautiful things from which we occasionally drink tiny droplets of soul-exhilarating joy, God continuously experiences in all their breadth and depth and richness.

  Dallas Willard

  Beautiful, Thinking, Interesting

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• You don't have to wait for something 'meaningful' to come into your life so that you can finally enjoy what you do. There is more meaning in joy than you will ever need. The 'waiting to start living' syndrome is one of the most common delusions of the unconscious state.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Meaningful, Waiting, Needs

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.179, Penguin

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• We ourselves can die with comfort and even with joy if we know that death is but a passport to blessedness, that this intellect, freed from all material chains, shall rise and shine.

  Matthew Simpson

  Shining, Comfort, Chains

  Matthew Simpson (1885). “Sermons”

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• We call "happiness" a certain set of circumstances that makes joy possible. But we call joy that state of mind and emotions that needs nothing to feel happy.

  Andre Gide

  Mind, Needs, Emotion

  "Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality". Book by André Gide, edited by Justin O'Brien, 1964.

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• All the love and joy that a man has ever received in perception is laid up in him as the sunshine of a hundred years is laid up in the bole of the oak.

  Coventry Patmore

  Love, Sunshine, Men

  Coventry Patmore (2016). “The Rod, the Root and the Flower”, p.13, Lulu.com

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• Joy steals upon me, such joy as calls forth tears.

  Aeschylus

  Tears, Stealing

  Aeschylus (2014). “The Oresteia: Agamemnon, Choephoroe, Eumenides”, p.7, Everyman's Library

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• This is a catastrophic universe, always; and subject to hidden reversals, upheavals, changes, cataclysms, with joy never anything but the song of substance under pressure forced into new forms and shapes.

  Doris Lessing

  Song, Shapes, Pressure

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• Learning a new thing is a shortcut to joy and informs your area of mastery.

  Sara Genn

  Mastery, Enthusiasm, Shortcuts

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• The joy of joys is the person of light but unmalicious humor.

  Emily Post

  Humor, Light, Persons

  Emily Post (2007). “Etiquette: In Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home”, p.51, Cosimo, Inc.

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• ... what the artist or creative scientist feels is not anxiety or fear; it is joy. I use the word in contrast to happiness or pleasure. The artist, at the moment of creating, does not experience gratification or satisfaction... Rather, it is joy, joy defined as the emotion that goes with heightened consciousness, the mood that accompanies the experience of actualizing one's own potentialities.

  Rollo May

  Creativity, Artist, Creating

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.45, W. W. Norton & Company

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• This is not to say that joy is a compensation for loss, but that each of them, joy and loss, exists in its own right and must be recognised for what it is ... So joy can be joy and sorrow can be sorrow, with neither of them casting either light or shadow on the other.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Loss, Light, Sorrow

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• You find true joy and happiness in life when you give and give and go on giving and never count the cost.

  Eileen Caddy

  True Joy, Giving, Cost

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• We say: mad with joy. We should say: wise with grief.

  Marguerite Yourcenar

  Wise, Grief, Adversity

  Marguerite Yourcenar (1994). “Fires”, p.79, University of Chicago Press

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• Any joy, creativity or wisdom our next moment brings will ensue from the way we live our present one.

  Susan L. Taylor

  Creativity, Live In The Moment, Way

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• Pleasure is a sensation. It is written into our bodies; it is our experience of delight, of joy. ... Pleasure will become a marker, a compass pointing to emotional true north.

  Carol Gilligan

  Emotional, Delight, Body

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• Waiting is not always a bad thing; it can bring its own joy -the thrill of anticipation.

  David Jeremiah

  Waiting, Thrill, Anticipation

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• Genius, apart from natural sensitiveness, is prone equally to unreasoning joy and to bitterest morbidness.

  Mary MacLane

  Genius, Natural

  Mary MacLane (2014). “I Await the Devil's Coming: The Story of Mary MacLane”, p.63, The Floating Press

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• Impermanence is the very essence of joy-the drop of bitterness that enables one to perceive the sweet.

  Myrtle Reed

  Change, Sweet, Essence

  Myrtle Reed (1911). “Master of the Vineyard”, p.28, Library of Alexandria

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• A bird is joy incarnate.

  Myrtle Reed

  Bird

  Myrtle Reed (1906). “Later Love Letters of a Musician”

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• The body grows by food and work, the mind by use, and the soul through joy and pain.

  Myrtle Reed

  Pain, Soul, Mind

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• Worrying is worthless. When you stop focusing on what has already happened and what may never happen, then you'll be in the present moment. Then you'll begin to experience joy in life.

  Brian Weiss

  Life, Worry, Experience

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• Joy and grief are never far apart. In the same street the shutters of one house are closed, while the curtains of the next are brushed by shadow of the dance. A wedding-party returns from church, and a funeral winds to its door. The smiles and the sadness of life are the tragi-comedy of Shakespeare. Gladness and sighs brighten and dim the mirror he beholds.

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Party, Grief, Sadness

  Robert Aris Willmott (1907). “Pleasures of Literature”

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• Dream big; at least you will have the joy of reaching for the stars instead of living in a box filled with unopened gifts.

  David Robinson

  Motivational, Dream, Stars

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