Motivational Quotes

Joy

May your joys be as deep as the ocean, your sorrows as light as its foam.

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Best Quotes about Joy

One can endure sorrow alone, but it takes two to be glad.

Hubbard, Elbert

It is essential to our well-being, and to our lives, that we play and enjoy life. Every single day do something that makes your heart sing.

Marcia, Wieder

You can't let one bad moment spoil a bunch of good ones.

Earnhardt, Dale

Enjoy what thou has inherited from thy sires if thou wouldn't really possess it. What we employ and use is never an oppressive burden; what the moment brings forth, that only can it profit by.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

I asked God for all things , that I might enjoy life. God gave life, that I might enjoy all things.

He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

Our works and our play. All our pleasures experienced as the pleasure of love. What could be better that? To feel in one's work the tender and flushed substance of one's dearest concern.

Richards, Mary Caroline

Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue.

Fielding, Henry

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Like what you do, if you don't like it, do something else.

Harvey, Paul

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Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

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Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

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Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

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Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing.

Phil Jackson

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The fact remains that the overwhelming majority of people who have become wealthy have become so thanks to work they found profoundly absorbing. The long term study of people who eventually become wealthy clearly reveals that their Luck arouse from the accidental dedication they had to an area they enjoyed.

Blotnick, Srully

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May your walls know joy; May every room hold laughter and every window open to great possibility.

Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

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Don't complain because you don't have. Enjoy what you've got.

Judd, H. Stanley

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The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.

Rohn, Jim

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Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

21.

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

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Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

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I have no greater joy then to hear that my children walk in truth. [John 4]

Bible

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The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

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If you are going to do something wrong, at least enjoy it.

Rosten, Leo

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When you were born, you cried and everybody else was happy. The only question that matters is this: When you die, will YOU be happy when everybody else is crying?

Campolo, Tony

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One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

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A good man doubles the length of his existence, to have lived so as to look back with pleasure on our past life is to live twice.

29.

This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Chuang Tzu

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Joy is a subtle elf; I think one's happiest when he forgets himself.

Tourneur, Cyril

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For one mother, joy is the quiet pleasure found in gently rubbing shampoo into her young child's hair. For another woman it's taking a long walk alone, while for yet another it's reviling in a much -- anticipated vacation.

Stukane, Eileen

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Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word satiety.

Quarles, Francis

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Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

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... focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.

Anderson, Greg

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Joy has this in common with pain, that it robs people of reason.

Platen

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No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.

Hill, Napoleon

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We French found it and called it joie de vivre -- the joy of living.

Repound, Renee

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My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate -- that's my philosophy.

Wilder, Thornton

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The primary joy of life is acceptance, approval, the sense of appreciation and companionship of our human comrades. Many men do not understand that the need for fellowship is really as deep as the need for food, and so they go through life accepting many substitutes for genuine, warm, simple.

Liebman, Joshua Loth

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Enjoy the journey, enjoy ever moment, and quit worrying about winning and losing.

Biondi, Matt

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The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.

William Shakespeare

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If you don't get a kick out of the job you're doing you'd better hunt for another one.

Vauclain, Samuel

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I feel sorry for the person who can't get genuinely excited about his work. Not only will he never be satisfied, but he will never achieve anything worthwhile.

Chrysler, Walter

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To really enjoy the better things in life, one must first have experienced the things they are better than.

Homoka, Oscar

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I always loved running -- it was something you could do by yourself, and under your own power. You could go in any direction, fast or slow as you wanted, fighting the wind if you felt like it, seeking out new sights just on the strength of your feet and the courage of your lungs.

Owens, Jesse

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The enjoyment of life would be instantly gone if you removed the possibility of doing something.

Depew, Chauncey

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May your joys be as deep as the ocean, your sorrows as light as its foam.

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The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity.

Twain, Mark