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words are like nets - we hope they'll cover what we mean, but we know they can't possibly hold that much joy, or grief, or wonder.
Jodi Picoult
I slept and I dreamed that life is all joy. I woke and I saw that life is all service. I served and I saw that service is joy.
Kahlil Gibran
I'm glad I did it, partly because it was worth it, but mostly because I shall never have to do it again
Mark Twain
You shall have joy, or you shall have power, said God; you shall not have both
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The surest mark of a Christian is not faith, or even love, but joy.
Samuel M. Shoemaker
Pierre had for the first time experienced that strange and fascinating feeling in the Slobodsky palace, when he suddenly felt that wealth and power and life, all that men build up and guard with such effort ,is only worth anything through the joy with which it can all be cast away.
Leo Tolstoy
For present joys are more to flesh and blood than a dull prospect of a distant good.
John Dryden
He who binds to himself a joy doth the winged life destroy. But he who kisses the joy as it flies lives in Eternity's sunrise.
William Blake
Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.
Christian Nevell Bovee
I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river.
Chuang Tzu
What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they've taken away?
Logan Pearsall Smith
All human joys are swift of wing, For heaven doth so allot it; That when you get an easy thing, You find you haven't got it.
Eugene Field
Joys divided are increased.
Josiah Gilbert Holland
We ask God to forgive us for our evil thoughts and evil temper, but rarely, if ever ask Him to forgive us for our sadness.
R. W. Dale
Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.
Dr. Melba Colgrove
Believe me! The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously!
Friedrich Nietzsche
Without pain, how could we know joy?' This is an old argument in the field of thinking about suffering and its stupidity and lack of sophistication could be plumbed for centuries but suffice it to say that the existence of broccoli does not, in any way, affect the taste of chocolate.
John Green
Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
We French found it and called it joie de vivre -- the joy of living.
Renee Repound
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