joy Quotes

“May our struggles and our concern for this planet never take away the joy of our hope.”

― Pope Francis, Laudato si'

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“To know intense joy without a strong bodily frame, one must have an enthusiastic soul.”

― George Eliot, Middlemarch

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“And he sang to them, now in the elven-tongue, now in the speech of the West, until their hearts, wounded with sweet words, overflowed, and their joy was like swords, and they passed in thought out to regions where pain and delight flow together...”

― J. R. R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

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“This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of...”

― George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman

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“supreme joy is a hundredfold greater in anticipation than in possession; its savour is greater while we wait for it than when it is ours.”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile

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“A thing of beauty is a joy for ever:Its loveliness increases; it will neverPass into nothingness; but still will keepA bower quiet for us, and a sleepFull of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.”

― John Keats, Endymion

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“There is thus an organic affinity between joyousness and tenderness, and their companionship in the saintly life need in no way occasion surprise.”

― William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience

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“There are moments when I wish I could roll back the clock and take all the sadness away, but I have the feeling that if I did, the joy would be gone as well.”

― Nicholas Sparks, A Walk to Remember

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“Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.”

― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

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“Anyhow there was no bitterness in her; none of that sense of moral virtue which is so repulsive in good women. She enjoyed practically everything.”

― Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway

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