Joy Quotes

Life can very genuinely and realistically pile things on. It doesn't dole out the heartache and pain, or joy, perfectly.

Tig Notaro

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Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.

William Butler Yeats

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I can see the humorous side of things and enjoy the fun when it comes; but look where I will, there seems to me always more sadness than joy in life.

Jerome K. Jerome

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Musical theater is great; you get painted up, you get to play princesses and witches, and you sing. The joy alone of that can really carry a lot.

Chris Pine

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I always catch and release and don't even eat trout. I think they are so majestic. I won't eat a trout even in a restaurant. They are beautiful and so much fun, and they give me such joy to catch them that it is my pleasure to take a picture with them, give them a kiss, sign a laminated autographed picture and put it in their mouth.

Henry Winkler

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Learning should be a joy and full of excitement. It is life's greatest adventure; it is an illustrated excursion into the minds of the noble and the learned.

Taylor Caldwell

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And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, till the Devil whispered behind the leaves 'It's pretty, but is it Art?'

Rudyard Kipling

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Finding the real joy of Christmas comes not in the hurrying and the scurrying to get more done, nor is it found in the purchasing of gifts. We find real joy when we make the Savior the focus of the season.

Thomas S. Monson

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If we could only snap the fetters of the body that bind the feet of the soul, we shall experience a great joy. Then we shall not be miserable because of the body's sufferings. We shall become free.

Vinoba Bhave

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I think a lot of musicians play for the playback. I mean, that's the joy of recording - you want to hear what you've done and what you've contributed - but never listening to that playback kind of removes the intellectual part of making music, and it removes the tendency to be revisionist.

Jenny Lewis

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The work I've done through my Common Culture Music series has enabled me not only to share my joy of music at scale but also promote the artists I love.

Connor Franta

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We yearn, as spirit children of our Heavenly Father, for that joy which we once had with Him in the life before this one. His desire is to grant us that sacred wish for unity out of His love for us.

Henry B. Eyring

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I feel really proud of my work on 'Sullivan & Son.' It's a really different character for me. I was excited to play this really tough, sweet smart, quirky girl because that's who I am at my core, but that's never who I was playing. The show is like my pride and joy.

Valerie Azlynn

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It appears to me impossible that I should cease to exist, or that this active, restless spirit, equally alive to joy and sorrow, should be only organized dust.

Mary Wollstonecraft

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One thing I've learned about life is that if you really let go, it's just a joy ride.

Ricky Williams

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When you are gestating, you feel full of life, you feel full of joy, you feel full of fantasy, of stories.

Thalia

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Starting in the mid-'80s, I played in a band called Meat Joy, and we made our own record, toured.

John Hawkes

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There is nothing greater than the joy of composing something oneself and then listening to it.

Clara Schumann

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This joy of discovery is real, and it is one of our rewards. So too is the approval of our work by our peers.

Henry Taube

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That's the joy of making a movie: watching all the elements come together.

Taron Egerton

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The adoring crowds and overwhelming Democratic support in the 2008 election was based largely on joy at jettisoning Bush and the appeal of electing a superbly qualified charismatic African American leader.

Mary Frances Berry

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Most great advances have been a collaboration. That is the joy of science for me.

Tim Hunt

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Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures.

Thomas Aquinas

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I seem to be thinking rationally again in the style that is characteristic of scientists. However, this is not entirely a matter of joy, as if someone returned from physical disability to good physical health. One aspect of this is that rationality of thought imposes a limit on a person's concept of his relation to the cosmos.

John Forbes Nash, Jr.

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