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
Ed Asner 
James Stewart 
Stendhal 
Roland Joffe 
Phil Collen 
Rudyard Kipling 
Anne Morrow Lindbergh 
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Are you really going to see Lewis? One of the few people it's worth getting excited over, I think. I know he is a good poet. I daresay he never heard of me, but I wish you would tell him that his work is the joy of my life.
Ruth Pitter 
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That's the great paradox of living on this earth, that in the midst of great pain you can have great joy as well. If we didn't have those things we'd just be numb.
Kathy Mattea
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Olympism seeks to create a way of life based on the joy found in effort, the educational value of a good example and respect for universal fundamental ethical principles.
Pierre de Coubertin
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We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.
E. B. White
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Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
Mark Twain
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The writer's joy is the thought that can become emotion, the emotion that can wholly become a thought.
Thomas Mann
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See, unlike most hackers, I get little joy out of figuring out how to install the latest toy.
Jamie Zawinski
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If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same time, because a dose of joy is a spiritual cure. It transcends all barriers.
Ed Sullivan
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I don't quite jump for joy, but I am awfully glad to see him.
Anne Bancroft
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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
Kahlil Gibran AeschylusLord ByronBilly SundayElbert HubbardHenry MillerE. M. ForsterLao TzuVirginia WoolfFranklin D. RooseveltHenry Wadsworth LongfellowWilliam BlakePierre CorneilleSimone Weil Virgil
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