Top Joy Quotes
When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself.
Tecumseh
The soul's joy lies in doing.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.
Erich Fromm
The joy we get as actors is out of transforming ourselves into something that's not necessarily anything true to ourselves. And it's a power - not being yourself, and being in the role; it's just like another prop.
Reese Witherspoon
An attitude of philosophic doubt, of suspended judgment, is repugnant to the natural man. Belief is an independent joy to him.
William Minto
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People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.
Iris Murdoch 
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Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.
Kahlil Gibran
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It is a simple but sometimes forgotten truth that the greatest enemy to present joy and high hopes is the cultivation of retrospective bitterness.
Robert G. Menzies
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I'd like to do Harvey again. I did it two years ago with Helen Hayes in New York. It was a joy. I was so glad to do it again because I never thought I did it right the first time.
James Stewart
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There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.
Henri Bergson
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It means that if they misunderstood Comfort and Joy, they misunderstood my other films.
Bill Forsyth
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I don't understand people whose gratification is a BMW. You don't know what joy is until you see a kid who was tortured get adopted by a family.
Andrew Vachss
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You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy.
John Calvin
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Popular Joy Authors
Friedrich NietzscheWilliam ShakespeareMark TwainOscar WildeJohann Wolfgang von GoetheMohandas GandhiAlbert EinsteinVictor HugoMarcus Tullius CiceroThomas Carlyle PlatoBertrand RussellHenry Ward BeecherDavid Herbert LawrenceHonore De Balzac
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