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Joy Quotes
"There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward."
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"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."
75
"Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures."
72
"I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river."
63
"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."
63
"Happiness is so simple in life:If I laugh then you are laughing too."
58
"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."
57
"The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy."
54
"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!"
54
"A little orange will put a spring into your day."
54
"How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!"
52
"Nobody understands another's sorrow, and nobody another's joy."
51
"Collecting is my joy; it gives me great satisfaction."
51
"Live your life, sing your song. Not full of expectations. Not for the ovations. But for the joy of it."
51
"See, unlike most hackers, I get little joy out of figuring out how to install the latest toy."
Joy,
49
"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."
48
"I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg."
47
"Do whatever makes your spirit glow out loud."
47
"We are both drawn to surreal situations so the writing was a joy."
46
"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."
46
"Laughing deeply is living deeply."
44
"Well, but you two are dancing around in your iridescent little downpour, whooping and stomping as sane people ought to do when they encounter a thing so miraculous as water."
43
"We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry."
Joy,
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