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
Swami Sivananda 
Bertrand Russell 
Ginger Rogers 
Lindsay Wagner 
Ossie Davis 
P. J. O'Rourke All Joy Quotes
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
Franklin D. Roosevelt 
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That's the joy of art - it should be dangerous and challenging but it's just art - it's safe.
Val Kilmer
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Pleasures flit by - they are only for yourself; work leaves a mark of long-lasting joy, work is for others.
Dmitri Mendeleev
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It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion; it is a joy of every moment.
Honore De Balzac
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That was the big lesson for all of us. Everything was going great on paper, but we all became miserable because we were so caught up in the machinery of how you make that happen, it took away the sheer joy.
Susanna Hoffs
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Thy love is singular when all thy delight is in Jesus Christ and in no other thing finds joy and comfort.
Richard Rolle
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It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
Albert Einstein
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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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