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Joy Quotes



"There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward."


"Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures."


"To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy."


"Collecting is my joy; it gives me great satisfaction."


"I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river."


"How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!"


"Happiness is so simple in life:If I laugh then you are laughing too."


"Live your life, sing your song. Not full of expectations. Not for the ovations. But for the joy of it."


"You may imagine the joy manifested by these poor Africans, when they heard one of their own color address them in a friendly manner, and in a language they could comprehend!"


"Nobody understands another's sorrow, and nobody another's joy."


"Our favourite amusement during that winter was tobogganing. In places the shore of the lake rises abruptly from the water's edge. Down these steep slopes we used to coast. We would get on our toboggan, a boy would give us a shove, and off we went! Plunging through drifts, leaping hollows, swooping down upon the lake, we would shoot across its gleaming surface to the opposite bank. What joy! What exhilarating madness! For one wild, glad moment we snapped the chain that binds us to earth, and joining hands with the winds we felt ourselves divine!"


"Man craves joy far more than anything else in life, but there is nothing as madly intoxicating as the feeling of joy that comes from the soul."


"Laughing deeply is living deeply."


"I am not finding pregnancy much of a joy. I am afraid of childbirth, but I am afraid I can't find a way of avoiding it."


"A little orange will put a spring into your day."



"There is no happiness in what worldly people believe happiness in, there is happiness in what Gnani [the enlightened one] believes the happiness in. What people regard as happiness is not happiness."


"We are both drawn to surreal situations so the writing was a joy."


"The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy."


"All things want to float as light as air through the world witnessing all that is. I am a mote of dust floating freely in the firmament, a person who merely is, and I feel full of joy for all worldly treasures, the immaculate gift of life."


"I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg."


"Laughter and imagination can overcome any ill-felt sensations."
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