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“Anger kills both laughter and joy; What greater foe is there than anger?”
Thiruvalluvar wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The delight and joy of curiosity and learning can temper our fear of doing something completely new.”
Jonathan Ive (born 1967) first seen 2021 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: (10 May 2021)
“I remember, I remember The fir-trees dark and high; I used to think their slender tops Were close against the sky: It was a childish ignorance, But now 'tis little joy To know I'm farther off from Heaven Than when I was a boy.”
Thomas Hood (1799–1845) said by 1845 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What joy have I in June's return? My feet are parched—my eyeballs burn, I scent no flowery gust; But faint the flagging Zephyr springs, With dry Macadam on its wings, And turns me "dust to dust.”
Thomas Hood (1799–1845) first seen 1844 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Ode Imitated from Horace (1844), st. 2.
“Take the joy and bear the sorrow, looking past your hopes and fears: learn to recognize the measured dance that orders all our years.”
Archilochus (688–645 BC) said by 645 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“How can I believe that a bed is anything but a bed, a woman’s body anything but a site of joy? I must assert my distance from Colonel Joll! I will not suffer for his crimes!”
J. M. Coetzee (born 1940) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Hope conquers cowardice, joy grief; Or at least, faith unbelief.”
Arthur Hugh Clough (1819–1861) said by 1861 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Women are weak, as you say, and love of all things to be passive, Passive, patient, receptive, yea, even of wrong and misdoing, Even to force and misdoing with joy and victorious feeling Patient, passive, receptive; for that is the strength of their being, Like to the earth taking all things, and all to good converting.”
Arthur Hugh Clough (1819–1861) said by 1861 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Whatever time thy golden eyelids ope They travel to a hope; Not only backward from these low degrees To starry dynasties, But, looking far where now the silence owns And rules from empty thrones, Thou seest the enchanted halls of heaven burn For joy at our return.”
George William Russell (1867–1935) said by 1935 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Drink: the immortal waters quench the spirit's longing. Art thou not now, bright one, all sorrow past, in elation, Made young with joy, grown brother-hearted with the vast, Whither thy spirit wending flits the dim stars past Unto the Light of Lights in burning adoration.”
George William Russell (1867–1935) said by 1935 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“On the laugh of a child I am borne to the joy of the King.”
George William Russell (1867–1935) said by 1935 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Ah, sigh for us whose hearts unseeing Point all their passionate love in vain, And blinded in the joy of being, Meet only when pain touches pain.”
George William Russell (1867–1935) said by 1935 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He felt an inner secret joy! A spirit of unfettered will Through light and darkness moving still Within the All to find its own, To be immortal and alone.”
George William Russell (1867–1935) said by 1935 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The World in which we live and move Outlasts aversion, outlasts love: Outlasts each effort, interest, hope, Remorse, grief, joy.”
Matthew Arnold (1822–1888) said by 1888 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When the dew glistens on the pearlèd ears, A shiver runs through the deep corn for joy.”
Matthew Arnold (1822–1888) said by 1888 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Ah, love, let us be true To one another! for the world, which seems To lie before us like a land of dreams, So various, so beautiful, so new, Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain; And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, Where ignorant armies clash by night.”
Matthew Arnold (1822–1888) said by 1888 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Hope is like a harebell, trembling from its birth, Love is like a rose, the joy of all the earth, Faith is like a lily, lifted high and white, Love is like a lovely rose, the world’s delight. Harebells and sweet lilies show a thornless growth, But the rose with all its thorns excels them both.”
Christina Rossetti (1830–1894) said by 1894 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Hope is like a Harebell; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“To love means to open ourselves to the negative as well as the positive — to grief, sorrow, and disappointment as well as to joy, fulfillment, and an intensity of consciousness we did not know was possible before.”
Rollo May (1909–1994) said by 1994 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Whatever sphere we may be in, there is a profound joy in the realization that we are helping to form the structure of the new world. This is creative courage, however minor or fortuitous our creations may be. We can then say, with Joyce, Welcome, O life! We go for the millionth time to forge in the smithy of our souls the uncreated conscience of the race.”
Rollo May (1909–1994) said by 1994 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A dynamic struggle goes on within a person between what he or she consciously thinks on the one hand and, on the other, some insight, some perspective that is struggling to be born. The insight is then born with anxiety, guilt, and the joy and gratification that is inseparable from the actualizing of a new idea or vision.”
Rollo May (1909–1994) said by 1994 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“One sunny spring day I heard the music coming down Karl Johan [street] and it filled me with joy. The spring, the sun, the music, all blended together to make me shiver with pleasure. The music added colour to the colours. I painted the picture [his painting 'Music on Karl Johan'] allowing the colours to reverberate with the rhythm of the music. I painted the colours as I saw them at that moment.”
Edvard Munch (1863–1944) first seen 1929 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quote in 'Livsfrisen tilblivelse', Blomqvist, Oslo 1929, p. 12
“And now impatiently despairest, see How nought is changed: Joy's wisdom is attired Splended for others' eyes if not for thee: Not love or beauty or youth from earth is fled: If they delite thee not, 'tis thou art dead.”
Robert Bridges (1844–1930) said by 1930 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I have loved flowers that fade, Within whose magic tents Rich hues have marriage made With sweet unmemoried scents: A honeymoon delight, A joy of love at sight, That ages in an hour My song be like a flower!”
Robert Bridges (1844–1930) first seen 1879 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Bk. II, No. 13, I Have Loved Flowers That Fade, st. 1 (1879).
“Repudiation of pleasur is a reason'd folly of imperfection. Ther is no motiv can rebate or decompose the intrinsic joy of activ life, whereon all function whatsoever in man is based.”
Robert Bridges (1844–1930) said by 1930 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In truth, I am nothing but a plodding mediocrity — please observe, a plodding mediocrity — for a mere mediocrity does not go very far, but a plodding one gets quite a distance. There is joy in that success, and a distinction can come from courage, fidelity and industry.”
Benjamin N. Cardozo (1870–1938) first seen 1936 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Nine Old Men (1936) by Drew Pearson and Robert Sharon Allen, p. 221.
“We do not hate, nor grieve, nor joy, nor despair in our thirties like we did in our teens. Disappointment does not suggest suicide, and we quaff success without intoxication.”
Jerome K. Jerome (1859–1927) said by 1927 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Then said a Second — "Ne'er a peevish Boy Would break the Bowl from which he drank in joy, And He that with his hand the Vessel made Will surely not in after Wrath destroy.”
Omar Khayyám (1048–1131) said by 1131 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: LXXXV (1889)
“Like tulips in the spring your cups lift up And with a tulip-cheeked companion sup With joy your wine, or e’er this azure wheel With some unlooked for blast upset your cup.”
Omar Khayyám (1048–1131) said by 1131 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The holy Cross goes forward; it brings joy and consolation to every quarter where Christians live; and these God-fearing people, elated, stand in their doorways and greet it reverently, the strength, the salvation of the universe, the Cross.”
Constantine P. Cavafy (1863–1933) said by 1933 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He remembers impulses bridled, the joy he sacrificed. Every chance he lost now mocks his senseless caution.”
Constantine P. Cavafy (1863–1933) said by 1933 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In the spiritual energy that relieves The anguish of beings in misery and Places depressed beings in eternal joy I lift up my heart and rejoice.”
Shantideva (685–763) said by 763 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In the ocean-like virtue of the Bodhimind That brings joy to all beings And in accomplishing the well-being of others, I lift up my heart and rejoice.”
Shantideva (685–763) said by 763 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Until every being afflicted by pain Has reached nirvanas shores, May I serve only as a condition That encourages progress and joy.”
Shantideva (685–763) said by 763 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Thus today in the presence of all awakened Ones I invite every living being to this festival Giving both immediate and lasting joy. May the gods and all others rejoice.”
Shantideva (685–763) said by 763 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“May all those languishing in hell come now to perfect joy. And may the stooping animals be freed From fear of being preyed upon, each other's food.”
Shantideva (685–763) said by 763 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Birds' songs express joy, beauty, and purity, and evoke in us vitality and love. So many beings in the universe love us unconditionally. The trees, the water, and the air don't ask anything of us; they just love us. Even though we need this kind of love, we continue to destroy them. By destroying the animals, the air, and the trees, we are destroying ourselves.”
Thích Nhất Hạnh (1926–2022) first seen 1993 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Love in Action: Writings on Nonviolent Social Change (1993), p. 131
“When you understand the roots of anger in yourself and in the other, your mind will enjoy true peace, joy and lightness”
Thích Nhất Hạnh (1926–2022) first seen 2005 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Teachings on Love (2005) Full Circle Publishing
“This idea of working just to make money or setting up in business just as a means to a livelihood is all wrong...It seems to me absolutely necessary, and in reality a joy, that a young man starting out in the world should be imbued with a desire to benefit mankind and society by his work and service - whether that be in the field of business, law, or something else.”
Nile Kinnick (1918–1943) first seen 1939 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to his parents (January 13, 1939)
“Where the glacier meets the sky, the land ceases to be earthly, and the earth becomes one with the heavens; no sorrows live there anymore, and therefore joy is not necessary; beauty alone reigns there, beyond all demands.”
Halldór Laxness (1902–1998) said by 1998 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.”
Merle Shain (1935–1989) said by 1989 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“God desireth not to see, in the Dispensation of the Bayán, any soul deprived of joy and radiance. He indeed desireth that under all conditions, all may be adorned with such purity, both inwardly and outwardly, that no repugnance may be caused even to themselves, how much less unto others.”
Báb (1819–1850) said by 1850 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Love-thirty, love-forty, oh! weakness of joy, The speed of a swallow, the grace of a boy, With carefullest carelessness, gaily you won, I am weak from your loveliness, Joan Hunter Dunn.Miss Joan Hunter Dunn, Miss Joan Hunter Dunn, How mad I am, sad I am, glad that you won. The warm-handled racket is back in its press, But my shock-headed victor, she loves me no less.”
John Betjeman (1906–1984) said by 1984 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Our new little house [Kirchner moved to the Wildboden house] is a real joy to us. We shall live here comfortably and in great new order. This will really come to be a turning point of my life. Everything must be put in clear order and the little house furnished as simply and modestly as possible, while still being beautiful and intimate.”
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880–1938) first seen 1923 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quote from his Diary, 1923; as quoted by Kornfield, E. W.; Stauffer, Christine E. Stauffer (1992). Biography Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Kirchner Museum Davos. Retrieved March 21, 2016; from Wikipedia: Kirchner
“I'm totally aware of how lucky I am. I have health, family, children. I do work that gives me total joy and allows me to make a living, and maybe, if I'm lucky enough, I'll feel I've fulfilled a little bit of service to society because I brought other people some laughter.”
Martin Short (born 1950) first seen 2000 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Parade Magazine; January 23, 2000
“The influence of the Holy Spirit is the life of Christ in the soul. We do not see Christ and speak to Him, but His Holy Spirit is just as near us in one place as in another. It works in and through every one who receives Christ. Those who know the indwelling of the Spirit reveal the fruits of the Spirit—love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith (MS 41, 1897).”
Ellen G. White (1827–1915) first seen 1112 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The SDA Bible Commentary, vol. 6, p. 1112.
“My first poem was a bolt from the blue … it broke a spell of disillusion and suicidal despondence. … it filled me with soul satisfying joy.”
William Carlos Williams (1883–1963) first seen 1951 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Autobiography of William Carlos Williams (1951) [W. W. Norton & Co., 1967, ]
“If God should turn away from himself as the Source of infinite joy, he would cease to be God. He would deny the infinite worth of his own glory. He would imply that there is something more valuable outside himself. He would commit idolatry... Where will we find a Rock of integrity in the universe when the heart of God has ceased to value supremely the supremely valuable?”
John Piper (theologian) first seen 1986 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist (Multnomah, 1986, .
“We need God in ways we do not know. Don't limit your experience of God to what you can think to ask. Ask for the unknown joy.”
John Piper (theologian) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: John Piper Twitter stream (2009-11-09).
“Yeah I love my baby, heart and soul Love like ours won't never grow old She's my sweet little thang, she's my pride and joy She's my sweet little baby, I'm her little lover boy”
Stevie Ray Vaughan (1954–1990) said by 1990 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Hopefully, I brought people a certain joy. That will be a wonderful legacy.”
Julie Andrews (born 1935) first seen 1966 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: This Week (18 September 1966)