Joy Quotes - Page 8

• Feminist art may... though perhaps our imaginations are so mutilated now that we are incapable even of the ambition, introduce a new theme... should we call it 'joy'?

  Andrea Dworkin

  Art, Ambition, Imagination

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• This is the true joy of life-the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one, the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown to the scrap-heap; the being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish clod of ailments and grievances.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Motivational, Happiness, Laughter

  Man and Superman epistle dedicatory (1903)

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• In choosing joy, the finish line dissolves into a different matter altogether.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Different, Lines, Matter

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• Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue.

  Henry Fielding

  Love, Happiness, Heart

  Henry Fielding (1992). “Tom Jones”, p.708, Wordsworth Editions

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• There is no real and true joy of if that joy is not imbued with love. Love cannot exist without joy.

  Torkom Saraydarian

  Love, Real, True Joy

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• Hope changes everything. It changes winter into summer, darkness into dawn, descent into ascent, barrenness into creativity, agony into joy.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Summer, Creativity, Winter

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• You are wrong if you think Joy emanates only or principally from human relationships. God has placed it all around us. It is in everything and anything we might experience. We just have to have the courage to turn against our habitual lifestyle and engage in unconventional living.

  Jon Krakauer

  Thinking, Unconventional, Might

  Jon Krakauer (2011). “Into the Wild”, p.58, Pan Macmillan

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• To live happily is an inward power of the soul.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Happiness, Laughter, Philosophical

  Marcus Aurelius (2016). “Meditations (Diversion Classics)”, p.219, Diversion Books

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• There are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind them when they go.

  Jean Paul

  Happiness, Laughter, Attitude

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• Although the constant shadow of certain death looms over everyday, the pleasures and joys of life can be so fine and affecting that the heart is nearly stilled in astonishment.

  Dean Koontz

  Motivational, Heart, Everyday

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• Cooking is at once child's play and adult joy. And cooking done with care is an act of love.

  Craig Claiborne

  Children, Food, Cooking Classes

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• The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.

  Khalil Gibran

  Love, Inspirational, Dream

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.48, Lulu.com

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• There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.

  Henri Bergson

  Happiness, Laughter, Creativity

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• Be the holder of your own Nature. It is a joyful responsibility.

  Eric Fischl

  Responsibility, Joyful

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• Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.

  Fred Rogers

  Funny, Music, Humor

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• The joy of life consists in the inevitable, continual triumph of new values.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Triumph, Inevitable, Values

  Wassily Kandinsky, Kenneth Clement Lindsay, Peter Vergo (1994). “Kandinsky, Complete Writings on Art”

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• Art is the distillate of life, the winnowed result of the experience of a people, the record of the joyous adventure of the creative spirit in us toward a higher world; a world in which all ideas, thoughts, and forms are pure and beautiful and completely clear, the world Plato held to be perfect and eternal. All works that have in them an element of joy are records of this adventure.

  Lawren Harris

  Beautiful, Art, Plato

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• Joyful, all ye nations, rise. Join the triumph of the skies. With angelic hosts proclaim "Christ is born in Bethlehem!

  Charles Wesley

  Sky, Triumph, Host

  Charles Wesley (1889). “Hark! the Herald Angels Sing”

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• God is merely tuning the soul, as an instrument, in this life. And these joys of the Christian, are only the notes and chords that are sounded out in the preparation--preludes to the perfect harmony that shall flood the soul--forerunners of the perfected and rapturous joy that shall bless the soul, in that exceeding and eternal weight of glory.

  Herrick Johnson

  Christian, Perfect, Soul

  Herrick Johnson (1881). “Christianity's Challenge: And Some Phases of Christianity Submitted for Candid Consideration”

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• Don't explain, enjoy.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Enjoy

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• Happiness depends upon ourselves.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Happiness, Adventure

  Aristotle (1953). “Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics”

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• Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Life, Happiness, Smile

  "The Will to Power". Book by Friedrich Nietzsche, 1888.

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• But were there ever any Writhed not at passed joy?

  John Keats

  John Keats (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.233

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• And these are joys, like beauty, but skin deep.

  Philip James Bailey

  Skins, Skin Deep

  Philip James Bailey (1857). “Festus: a poem”, p.148

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• Do not judge men by mere appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Sad, Laughter, Ex Boyfriend

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