joy quotes

• Once my heart was captured, reason was shown the door, deliberately and with a sort of frantic joy. I accepted everything, I believed everything, without struggle, without suffering, without regret, without false shame. How can one blush for what one adores? (George Sand) [joy/suffering/shame]
• The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again. (Charles Dickens) [pain/parting/joy/meeting]
• Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps. (William Blake) [sorrow/joy]
• The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself. (William Blake) [tears/joy/eyes/thing]
• There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something. (Henry Ford) [joy/happiness]
• Joy delights in Joy. (William Shakespeare) [joy/joy]
• The treasury of everlasting joy. (William Shakespeare) [joy]
• We have within ourselves
  Enough to fill the present day with joy,
  And overspread the future years with hope. (William Wordsworth) [present/day/joy/future]
• ... focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it. (Greg Anderson) [journey/joy/activity]
• The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love. (Pearl Bailey) [joy/love]
• Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it. (Georges Bataille) [beauty/order/joy]
• The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself. (William Blake) [tears/joy/eyes/thing]
• Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps. (William Blake) [sorrow/joy]
• I have no name: I am but two days old. What shall I call thee? I happy am, Joy is my name. sweet joy befall thee! (William Blake) [joy/joy]
• I have no name: I am but two days old. What shall I call thee? I happy am, Joy is my name. Sweet joy befall thee! (William Blake) [joy/joy]
• Let there be more joy and laughter in your living. (Eileen Caddy) [more/joy/laughter]
• The parents age must be remembered, both for joy and anxiety. ( Confucius) [parents/age/joy/anxiety]
• With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bent arm for a pillow -- I have still joy in the midst of all these things. ( Confucius) [water//joy]
• Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven. (John Donne) [joy]
• Since every man who lives is born to die, and none can boast sincere felicity, with equal mind, what happens, let us bear, nor joy nor grieve too much for things beyond our care. (John Dryden) [mind/joy/care]
• Seek not to know what must not be reveal, for joy only flows where fate is most concealed. A busy person would find their sorrows much more; if future fortunes were known before! (John Dryden) [joy/find/more/future]
• The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth. (Albert Einstein) [joy/beauty/truth]
• It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. (Albert Einstein) [art/joy/knowledge]
• It is in these acts called trivialities that the seeds of joy are forever wasted, until men and women look round with haggard faces at the devastation their own waste has made, and say, the earth bears no harvest of sweetness -- calling their denial knowledge. (George Eliot) [acts/joy/men/women]
• Tobacco and opium have broad backs, and will cheerfully carry the load of armies, if you choose to make them pay high for such joy as they give and such harm as they do. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [willpower/high/joy/give]
• The glory of friendship is not in the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is in the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [smile/joy/inspiration/trust]
• Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue. (Henry Fielding) [joy/change]
• Inner work is finding joy in work. Our real work is heart work and soul work. (Matthew Fox) [joy]
• Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom. (Anatole France) [irony/gaiety/joy/wisdom]
• Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) [joy/sorrow]
• Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of all laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful molder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State and Church-begotten weed, marriage? (Emma Goldman) [love/life/joy/love]

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