Joy Quotes IV

JOY QUOTES IV

Joy is the best wine.

GEORGE ELIOT

Silas Marner

Joy's the shyest bird
Mortal ever heard;
Listen rapt and silent while he sings;
Do not seek to see,
Less the vision be
But a flutter of departing wings.

CAROLINE SPENCER

"A Strange Singer"

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The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.

JON KRAKAUER

Into the Wild

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Here below is not the land of happiness; I know it not; it is only the land of toil, and every joy which comes to us is only to strengthen us for some greater labor that is to succeed.

JOHANN GOTTLIEB FICHTE

Popular Works

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Joy flees from the selfish, it deserts the quarrelsome; it is hidden from the impure.

JAMES ALLEN

Morning and Evening Thoughts

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Joy's recollection is no longer joy,
While Sorrow's memory is a sorrow still.

LORD BYRON

Marino Faliero

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Perhaps there could be no joy on this planet without an equal weight of pain to balance it out on some unknown scale.

STEPHENIE MEYER

The Host

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Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings.

ROLLO MAY

Man's Search For Himself

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This is a catastrophic universe, always; and subject to hidden reversals, upheavals, changes, cataclysms, with joy never anything but the song of substance under pressure forced into new forms and shapes.

DORIS LESSING

Shikasta

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Joy comes and fills the self-emptied heart; it abides with the peaceful; its reign is with the pure.

JAMES ALLEN

Morning and Evening Thoughts

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It ain't no sin to be glad you're alive.

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

"Badlands", Darkness on the Edge of Town

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Pleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within.