JOY QUOTES II

quotations about joy

Joy quote

In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit


In Heaven (if there is one), we are held accountable for every joy we failed to taste.

DOUGLAS CARLTON ABRAMS

interview, goodreads


People come and go, pain comes and goes. But so does joy. And if our hearts are closed because we don't want to suffer, they won't be open enough to recognize the joy as it flies by.

GENEEN ROTH

Good Housekeeping, Dec. 2008


Through the loveliest scenes the joy-train of our lives rushes swiftly. At the petty wayside stations, we are able but to touch hands with cherished friends, and behold! we are off again; but if we have grief for our engine-driver, care for the stoker, how we creep along the lines.

MRS. F. G. TRAFFORD

attributed, Day's Collacon


Is it that they fear the pain of death, or could it be they fear the joy of life?

TOAD THE WET SPROCKET

Pray Your Gods


Joy, when it is excessive, overcomes as much as grief.

VITTORIO ALFIERI

Agamemnon


We should plague everyone with joy.

SWAMI SATCHIDANANDA

The Yoga Sutras


If I dream I have you, I have you,
For, all our joys are but fantastical.

JOHN DONNE

The Dream


Optimists find joy in small things. They enjoy sunsets, a good conversation with a close friend; and they enjoy life in general. They are more concerned with having many small joys rather than having one huge joy.

ROBERT M. SHERFIELD

The Everything Self-Esteem Book


Nothing brings joy as does a
tamed, controlled, attended and restrained heart.
This heart brings joy.

GAUTAMA BUDDHA

Anguttara Nikaya


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

AESCHYLUS

Agamemnon


What matters an eternity of damnation to someone who has found in one second the infinity of joy?

CHARLES BAUDELAIRE

"Le Mauvais Vitrier"


We all need joy, and we can all receive joy in only one way, by adding to the joy of others.

EKNATH EASWARAN

The End of Sorrow


Joy and grief are things of great hazard and danger in the life of man: The one breaks the heart; the other intoxicates the head.

BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE

Moral and Religious Aphorisms


It is the sum of the million little unconscious dispositions that go to make life joyful or painful.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit


Joy is good--the angel's food.

CAROLINE SPENCER

"The Old Is Better"


Joy is a freedom. It helps a person to find his/her own liberation. The person who is joyous takes responsibility for the time he/she takes up and the space that he/she occupies. You share it! Some of you have it ... you share it! That is what joy is! When you continue to give it away you will still have so much more of it.

MAYA ANGELOU

interview, Beautifully Said Magazine, Jul. 2012


They hear a voice in every wind,
And snatch a fearful joy.

THOMAS GRAY

Ode in a Distant Prospect of Eton College


Notes of joy have a special STP solvent in them that dissolves all the gluey engine deposits of heartache. War and woe don't have anything like the range and reach that notes of joy do.

NICHOLSON BAKER

The Anthologist


Joys are bubble-like--what makes them bursts them too.

PHILIP JAMES BAILEY

Festus

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