Rejoice Quotes - Page 15

• All tragedies deal with fated meetings; how else could there be a play? Fate deals its stroke; sorrow is purged, or turned to rejoicing; there is death, or triumph; there has been a meeting, and a change. No one will ever make a tragedy - and that is as well, for one could not bear it - whose grief is that the principals never met.

  Mary Renault

  Grief, Fate, Play

  Mary Renault (1974). “The Mask of Apollo”

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• The test of ahimsa is the absence of jealousy. The man whose heart never cherishes even the thought of injury to anyone, who rejoices at the prosperity of even his greatest enemy, that man is the bhakta, he is the yogi, he is the guru of all.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Heart, Men, Enemy

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1001, Manonmani Publishers

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• We must rejoice when love is great, and pardon its excess, for love is the staff of life, and life without love is life in vain.

  Arthur Lynch

  Love, Life, Excess

  Arthur Lynch (1921). “Moods of Life: Popular Psychological Studies of Affairs of Every Day”

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• But dinner is dinner, a meal at which not so much to eat - it becomes difficult to eat much at it as you grow older - as to drink, to talk, to flirt, to discuss, to rejoice "at the closing of the day". I do not think anything serious should be done after it, as nothing should before breakfast.

  George Saintsbury

  Flirting, Thinking, Meals

  George Saintsbury (1922). “A Scrap Book”

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• There is no occasion for our rejoicing at a foe's death, because our own life will also not last forever.

  Bill Vaughan

  Forever, Lasts, Foe

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• These are thy glorious works Parent of Good, Almighty, thine this universal Frame, Thus wondrous fair; thy self how wondrous then! Unspeakable, who sitst above these Heavens To us invisible or dimly seen In these thy lowest works, yet these declare Thy goodness beyond thought, and Power Divine: Speak ye who best can tell, ye Sons of light, Angels, for ye behold him, and with songs And choral symphonies, Day without Night, Circle his Throne rejoicing, ye in Heav'n, On Earth join all ye Creatures to extoll Him first, him last, him midst, and without end.

  John Milton

  God, Song, Angel

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 5, l. 164

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• Baseball is the religion that worships the obvious and gives thanks that things are exactly as they seem. Instead of celebrating mysteries, baseball rejoices in the absence of mysteries and trusts that, if we watch what is laid before our eyes, down to the last detail, we will cultivate the gift of seeing things as they really are.

  Thomas Boswell

  Baseball, Eye, Giving

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• We rejoice in God since he has taught us that every thing which is true in us, is but a faint expression of what is in him. And thus all our joys become to us the echo of higher joys, and our very life is as a dream of that nobler life, to which we shall awaken when we die.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  God, Dream, Echoes

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.88

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• Thou rising Sun! thou blue rejoicing Sky!
  Yea! every thing that is and will be free!
  Bear witness for me, whereso'er ye be,
  With what deep worship I have still adored
  The spirit of divinest Liberty.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Blue, Sky, Liberty

  "France: An Ode". Poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1798.

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• Awaken and rejoice. Awaken and be alive. Awaken to the possibility of being fulfilled.

  Prem Rawat

  Alive, Possibility, Fulfilled

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• But I shall let the little I have learnt go forth into the day in order that someone better than I may guess the truth, and in his work may prove and rebuke my error. At this I shall rejoice that I was yet a means whereby this truth has come to light.

  Albrecht Durer

  Mean, Errors, Light

  Introduction by Albrecht Durer (first lines) to Karl Popper "Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge", 1963.

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• Community [is] a group of individuals who have learned how to communicate honestly with each other, whose relationships go deeper than their masks of composure, and who have developed some significant commitment to "rejoice together, mourn together," and to "delight in each other, make others' conditions our own.

  M. Scott Peck

  Commitment, Community, Together

  M. Scott Peck (2010). “The Different Drum: Community Making and Peace”, p.59, Simon and Schuster

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• To love is for the Soul to choose a companion, and travel with it along the perilous defiles and winding ways of life; mutually sustaining, when it is rugged with obstructions, and mutually rejoicing, when rich broad plains and sunny slopes make journeying delight.

  George Henry Lewes

  Love Is, Soul, Delight

  George Henry Lewes (2011). “The Life and Works of Goethe: With Sketches of His Age and Contemporaries from Published and Unpublished Sources”, p.260, Cambridge University Press

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• If only one tooth aches, rejoice that not all of them ache.... If your wife betrays you, be glad that she betrayed only you and not the nation.

  Anton Chekhov

  Wife, Betrayed, Teeth

  "Life is Wonderful" by Anton Chekhov, 1885.

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• Neither rejoice nor lament prematurely; for whatever may happen, all will be well if we only have health; for happiness exists--merely in the imagination.

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Happiness, Imagination, May

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1866). “The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1769-1791)”, p.133

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• The opinion I have of the generality of women--who appear to me as children to whom I would rather give a sugar plum than my time, forms a barrier against matrimony which I rejoice in.

  John Keats

  Children, Women, Giving

  John Keats (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Keats (Illustrated)”, p.752, Delphi Classics

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• Mourning after an absent God is an evidence of a love as strong, as rejoicing in a present one.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Strong, Mourning, Evidence

  Frederick William Robertson (1873). “ser. 1 God's revelation of heaven [and other sermons]. ser. 2 Christ's judgement respecting inheritance [and other sermons]. ser. 3 The tongue [and other sermons”

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• Let me rejoice in the light which Thou hast imparted; let me serve Thee with active zeal, humbled confidence, and wait with patient expectation for the time in which the soul which Thou receivest shall be satisfied with knowledge.

  Samuel Johnson

  Light, Expectations, Waiting

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1825). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With Murphy's Essay”, p.637

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• Now rejoice, all ye powers of my soul, that you are so united with God that no one may separate you from Him. I cannot fully praise nor love Him therefore must I die, and cast myself into the divine void, till I rise from non-existence to existence.

  Meister Eckhart

  Soul, Void, May

  Meister Eckhart (2007). “Meister Eckhart's Sermons”, p.37, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Let us also once more rejoice in, and thank God for, the fact that we know nothing about Homer, and practically nothing about Shakespeare.

  George Saintsbury

  Thank God, Facts, Knows

  George Saintsbury (1924). “A Last Scrap Book”

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• Every wife ought to answer for her man. If the husband be engaged in a seditious club, or drinks mysterious healths, or be frugal of his candles on a rejoicing night, let her look to him and keep him out of harm's way; or the world will be apt to say, she has a mind to be a widow before her time. She ought, in such cases, to exert the authority of the curtain lecture; and if she finds him of a rebellious disposition, to tame him, as they do birds of prey, by dinning him in the ears all night long.

  Joseph Addison

  Husband, Night, Men

  Joseph Addison, Thomas Tickell (1811). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison: With the Exception of His Numbers of the Spectator”, p.48

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• In some countries, if you carry the Gospel, you can go to jail. You can't carry a cross, because you'll have to pay a fine. But still, the heart rejoices.

  Pope Francis

  Country, Heart, Jail

  "Pope: I weep for crucified Christians". www.romereports.com. May 2, 2014.

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• There is never a rational reason for a man to rejoice that a certain pretty girl exists and that he has found her. The experience, however, is universal.

  Murray Leinster

  Girl, Men, Reason

  "Time Tunnel". Book by Murray Leinster, ch. 2, p. 19, 1964.

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• Let us rejoice that we are poor, And have no gold to keep: We do not need to bar the door Ere we can go to sleep.

  Robert B. Leighton

  Sleep, Doors, Gold

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• We can grieve over lost powers and memories, or rejoice over gained knowledge and maturity, according to taste.

  Simon Blackburn

  Memories, Maturity, Grieving

  Simon Blackburn (1999). “Think: A Compelling Introduction to Philosophy”, p.101, Oxford University Press

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