joy Quotes

“My days are as happy as those reserved by God for his elect; and, whatever be my fate hereafter, I can never say that I have not tasted joy,—the purest joy of life.”

― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther

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“Do anything, but let it produce joy. Do anything, but let it yield ecstasy.”

― Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

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“What I know for sure is that every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and step out and dance—to live free of regret and filled with as much joy, fun, and laughter as you can stand.”

― Oprah Winfrey, What I Know For Sure

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“It’s the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet, tender joy.”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

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“The morning cup of coffee has an exhilaration about it which the cheering influence of the afternoon or evening cup of tea cannot be expected to reproduce.”

― Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Over the Teacups

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“The whole world is now for me divided into two halves: one half is she, and there all is joy, hope, light: the other half is everything where she is not, and there is all gloom and darkness...”

― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

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“do try, to be more cheerful and take life as you find it.”

― L. Frank Baum, The Marvelous Land of Oz

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“Suddenly he knew joy and sorrow felted into one fabric. Courage and fear were one thing too.”

― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

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“Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured and little to be enjoyed.”

― Samuel Johnson, The History of Rasselas

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“All that remains is a fate whose outcome alone is fatal. Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness, is liberty.”

― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus

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