Joy Quotes - Page 33

• While it is February one can taste the full joys of anticipation. Spring stands at the gate with her finger on the latch.

  Patience Strong

  Spring, Taste, Anticipation

  Patience Strong (1951). “The Glory of the Garden”

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• One of the most perfect and unfailing joys of life is planting. It is the creative joy felt by God.

  Candace Wheeler

  Perfect, Creative, Gardening

  Candace Wheeler (1918). “Yesterdays in a Busy Life”

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• Live your life as though there is great joy to be experienced... an abundance of goodness in each person you come in contact with, and the knowledge that you have enough inner wisdom to answer the mysteries that challenge you.

  Meladee McCarty

  Live Your Life, Challenges, Answers

  Meladee McCarty (1996). “Daily Journal of Kindness: A Year Long Guide for Creating Your Own Kindness Revolution”, Hci

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• True joy is only hope put out of fear.

  Sir Fulke Greville

  True Joy

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• Everyone longs for love's tense joys and red delights.

  Jane Kenyon

  Delight, Red, Tense

  Jane Kenyon (2005). “Collected Poems”, Graywolf Press

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• Half the joys and half the sorrows of this world are discovered in bed.

  Kathleen Winsor

  Sorrow, Bed, Half

  Kathleen Winsor, Barbara Taylor Bradford (2012). “Forever Amber”, p.105, Chicago Review Press

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• Fear is for the old. Lack of it is one of the joys of youth.

  Helen Van Slyke

  Fear, Youth

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• Play is a universal language. It gives a sense of joy in being alive. It is one of the healthiest things we have in our culture. When we play, we give a gift of joy to another. Happy and joyous family times are a unifying force. They increase closeness and positive feelings. They increase loyalty to the family team. Everyone relaxes and feels more alive. Love just happens when you're having fun together!

  Louise Hart

  Family, Loyalty, Fun

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• Life is a chain of small sorrows that lead to a great joy.

  Siddharth Katragadda

  Sorrow, Life Is, Chains

  "The Other Wife: A Novel in Verse". Book by Siddharth Katragadda, 2003.

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• The wise man seeks little joys, knowing that life is long and that his quota of great joys is distinctly limited.

  William Feather

  Wise, Men, Knowing

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• Loving, not the beloved, is the joy of love. The beloved, knowing this, most resolutely declines to be grateful.

  Mason Cooley

  Love, Grateful, Knowing

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• I was comfortable in all, I admit, but at the same time, nothing satisfied me. Each joy made me seek another.

  Albert Camus

  Made, Discontent, Satisfied

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• The joy that comes past hope and beyond expectation is like no other pleasure in extent.

  Sophocles

  Past, Expectations, Pleasure

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• I once read that the only way to enjoy life is to observe everything with a sense of detached amusement. I don't always do that, but it serves you well to keep it in mind.

  Bryant Gumbel

  Life, Happiness, Reading

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• What good to us is a long life if it is difficult and barren of joys, and if it is so full of misery that we can only welcome death as a deliverer?

  Sigmund Freud

  Life, Long, Welcome

  Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Anna Freud, Carrie Lee Rothgeb (1961). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

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• Now shall my inward joys arise,
  And burst into a song;
  Almighty love inspires my heart,
  And pleasure tunes my tongue.

  Isaac Watts

  Song, Heart, Inspire

  Isaac Watts (1832). “An Arrangement of the Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs of the Rev. Isaac Watts”, p.111

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• Joy is the life of man's life.

  Benjamin Whichcote

  Men

  Benjamin Whichcote (1753). “Moral and religious aphorisms collected from the manuscript papers of the reverend and learned Doctor Whichcote; and published in 1703, by Dr. Jeffery. Now re-published, with very large additions, ... by Samuel Salter, ... To which are added, Eight letter”, p.71

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• The joys of the evil flow away like a torrent.

  Jean Racine

  Evil, Flow

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• Who bathes in worldly joys, swims in a world of fears.

  Phineas Fletcher

  Fear, Swim, World

  Phineas Fletcher, Giles Fletcher (1783). “The purple island, or The isle of man. [In verse] To which is added, Christ's victory and triumph, a poem by G. Fletcher”, p.116

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• My life is ending, I know that well, but every day that is left me I feel how my earthly life is in touch with a new infinite, unknown, but approaching life, the nearness of which sets my soul quivering with rapture, my mind glowing and my heart weeping with joy.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Heart, Glowing, Soul

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2015). “The Brothers Karamazov”, p.441, First Avenue Editions

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• No one really understands the grief or joy of another. We always imagine that we are approaching some other, but our lines of travel are actually parallel.

  Franz Schubert

  Grief, Understanding, Lines

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• When our identity expands to include everything, we find a peace with the dance of the world. The ocean of life rises and falls within us - birth and death, joy and pain, it is all ours, and our heart is full and empty, large enough to embrace it all.

  Jack Kornfield

  Pain, Ocean, Fall

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• Joy is a weapon we use to fight life's battles.

  Margaret Feinberg

  Fighting, Battle, Use

  FaceBook post by Margaret Feinberg from Nov 06, 2014

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• Postpone joy, it will diminish. Postpone a problem, it will grow.

  Paulo Coelho

  Problem, Grows, Diminish

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Nov 01, 2009

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• There is no joy without gratitude.

  Brené Brown

  Gratitude

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