best quotations about
Joy |
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Quotations
 | When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec, 1906-1966, Polish author of maxims 9 likes |
 | Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps. — William Blake, 1757-1827, English poet & painter 4 likes |
 | Man cannot live without joy. That is why one deprived of spiritual joys goes over to carnal pleasures. — Saint Thomas Aquinas, 1225-1274, Italian Dominican friar & philosopher 4 likes |
| Joys impregnate. Sorrows bring forth. — William Blake, 1757-1827, English poet & painter 3 likes |
 | Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with. — Mark Twain, 1835-1910, American writer 3 likes |
 | We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them. — Khalil Gibran, 1883-1931, Lebanese-American poet & philosopher 3 likes |
 | The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy. — Jim Rohn, 1930-2009, American self-help speker 3 likes |
 | When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy. — Rumi, 1207-1273, Persian mystic & poet 3 likes |
 | Joys do not stay, but take wing and fly away. — Martial, 43-104 AD, Roman poet of epigrams 3 likes |
 | Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow. — René Descartes, 1596-1650, French philosopher 2 likes |
 | To have joy, one must share it. — Lord Byron, 1788-1824, British poet 2 likes |
 | The mother of excess is not joy but joylessness. — Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844-1900, German philosopher 2 likes |
| When you feel a peaceful joy, that’s when you are near truth. — Rumi, 1207-1273, Persian mystic & poet 2 likes |
 | The only joy in the world is to begin. |
 | We want happy paintings. Happy paintings. If you want sad things, watch the news. |
 | Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain. |
 | In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag. |
 | The trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain. Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses. |
 | Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss. |
 | Every morning upon awakening, I experience a supreme pleasure: that of being Salvador Dalí. |
 | To be joyous is to be a madman in a world of sad ghosts. |
| Do anything, but let it produce joy. Do anything, but let it yield ecstasy. |
 | The optimistic nature finds joy in the very feeling for life; the pessimistic nature finds a feeling for life only in joy. — Lou Andreas-Salomé, 1861-1937, Russian-German writer & psychoanalyst |
| We artists are a different breed of people. We’re a happy bunch. |
| You can do anything here — the only prerequisite is that it makes you happy. |
 | Joy can only spring up among people who feel equal. |
| Let’s build a happy little cloud. Let’s build some happy little trees. |
Quotes in Verse
 | Then my heart with pleasure fills And dances with the daffodils. — William Wordsworth, 1770-1850, English poet 2 likes |
 | Every joy is gain And gain is gain, however small. — Robert Browning, 1812-1889, British poet 2 likes |
Ancient Greek
 | The sudden and unexpected joy ... ... of all the joys it has too much sweetness. Αλλ’ η γαρ εκτός και παρ’ ελπίδας χαρά — Sophocles, 496-406 BC, Ancient tragic poet ‐ Αντιγόνη 5 likes |
