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“SCAD shows that we can educate students and prepare them for successful careers in creative fields. That was a revolutionary idea when SCAD began, but our students and alumni — who hail from over 100 countries — are proof positive that it's true. If I leave any kind of legacy, there's nothing more joyful than that.”
Paula Wallace first seen 2016 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Get That Life: How I Started My Own College, Cosmopolitan (April 18, 2016)
“As far as we are concerned, we will continue our pastoral work and the message of Christ through the joyful witness of the Gospel and serving others.”
Stanley Roman (born 1941) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Catholic Church attacked in Kerala: "We are exposed to different extremism", says the Bishop (6 September 2011)
“It’s 5:30 in the afternoon here, while two in the morning there in the Philippines; you already have your Christmas eve mass and noche buena. Here, we spent the entire afternoon reminiscing how joyful Christmas Day there. I imagine Sofia and Anita and all the children in our neighborhood are enjoying right now. If only my will be done, I’d like to spend the next Christmas with you.”
Marcelo H. del Pilar (1850–1896) first seen 1889 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Marcelo H. del Pilar to his wife Chanay [Marciana del Pilar] (24 December 1889)
“I'm a risk-taker. Most of my career has not been a joyful experience, but it has been challenging. I like the dangers.”
Michael Douglas (born 1944) first seen 2010 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in "Michael Douglas: ‘I’m an optimistic guy I am going to beat this’" in The Palm Beach Post (16 September 2010)
“I feel Advent is a joyful preparation for the Nativity of the Lord. It's always struck me that perhaps liturgical vestments, which at this time are purple, would better perhaps be blue, uniting us to our Blessed Lady in her preparation for the birth of her Son, but then I am a bit unconventional in this way.”
Mark Jabalé (1933–2025) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Bishop Mark Jabale OSB (December 4, 2020)
“Let us come to meet the Pope with open hearts and joyful spirits; proud, dignified and eager to hear his words of inspiration.”
Slobodan Štambuk (1941–2023) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Message from Bishop Štambuk on the Pope's Forthcoming Visit to Croatia (27 May 2011)
“Priesthood still is the most marvelous gift and mystery – there is no end to the wonder of it; it's a joyful life.”
John Joseph Gerry (1927–2017) first seen 2015 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Holy Spirit takes care of early ‘wobbly knees’ (9 July 2015)
“Being a mother is the best experience of my life. I truly understand why children are called gifts from God. I was lucky to have a baby with little issues, so it was an overwhelming but joyful experience”
Abiola Bashorun (born 1985) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Charity is to love as God loves, to love because God loves and to love what God loves. A joyful community is an appealing community.”
Nelson Jair Cardona Ramírez (born 1969) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Communities that welcome with joy: the key to missionary awakening (2 April 2019) Fides News Agency
“At this moment, the priority is to bring God to the hearts of men and women, and men and women to the heart of God, and this is part of the message of Fatima. This is because we live in a time of religious indifference. Our greatest enemy is not militant atheism but religious indifference. This indifference is fought with the joyful and convinced testimony of faithful Christians.”
António Augusto dos Santos Marto (born 1947) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Cardinal Antonio Marto: Our greatest enemy is not atheism, but religious indifference (26 July 2018) Rome Reports
“Anarchists vigilantly resist the world that is, while simultaneously engaging in those hopeful behaviors that point toward new social relations. They practice the beauty that human beings are striving to achieve in the world that could be. Anarchist activities emphasize the aesthetic and the joyful.”
Cindy Milstein (born 2000) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Proclaiming the Gospel should not be an exhausting task, concentrating on criticism, full of reproaches, of questioning, of the sowing of mere doubts, but rather a joyful announcement, providing consolation, relief, challenge and hope.”
Carlos José Ñáñez (born 1946) first seen 1997 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Intervention of H. Exc. Most Rev. Carlos José ÑÁÑEZ , Coadjutor Archbishop of Tucumán (21 November 1997) Holy See Press Office
“I love to see animals running free. It reminds me to be grateful that cool weather and a space to play is enough, and sometimes that's all we need to be joyful.”
Paola Merrill (born 1997) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“there are two main differences now: I have hope, and I have agency. I know my feelings, no matter how disconsolate they are, are temporary. I know that regardless of how unruly it is, I am the beast's master, and at the end of each battle I stand strong and plant my flag: I am alive, I am proud, I am joyful, still. (Chapter 43)”
Stephanie Foo (born 1987) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Being Māori, being Indigenous, we have a long legacy of resistance and activism. My work is to step into that and ensure that (ideally) future generations don't have to do this activism; that we do our job so well they get to have a joyful time.”
India Logan-Riley first seen 2022 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: India Miro Logan-Riley On How Youth Will Lead Climate Justice And Indigenous Sovereignty. October 17, 2022, Tom Allen. IMPACTBOOM, Retrieved: 18 November, 2023.
“We did a lot of rehearsals to pull off the hologram, and we made sure to carry it out in the safest way possible. That was the climax of the performance, a joyful moment, before we calmed it down with the little princess at the end.”
Sherrie Silver (born 1994) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: How Choreographer Sherrie Silver made a masterpiece out of Donald Glover's "This Is America" Interview Magazine (May 8, 2018).
“I managed to visit Akagera National Park last year and it was a joyful experience. I think I will return to see the lions because they sleep for 20 hours and hunt for four”
Elsa Iradukunda first seen 2023 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Miss Elsa Iradukunda yagiriye ibihe byiza muri Pariki y’Akagera-AMAFOTOInyaRwanda(January 02,2023)
“It is only through solidarity, compassion and radical reimagining that we can build a more just and joyful world for all of us.”
“Feminism must concern itself with radical possibilities for our future, a future in which gender-based violence and harm is abolished, freeing us all to lead more joyful lives. That cannot begin with barring the freedom to find other ways to look at, understand or do gender.”
“I am a writer who works in her country, who never lived anywhere else, who maybe will one day, but whose life has transpired in a large American metropolis with all its intensity, its often joyful — and other times desperate — people, its power outages, its bodies in the streets, its beauty and its horror.”
Mariana Enríquez (born 1973) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“On the vigil of the feast of All Saints' Day, dressing up as beloved saints is a joyful expression of popular piety, reclaiming the Christian roots of Hallowe'en and cultivating the Church’s tradition of observing liturgical feasts. We don't all need theology degrees to celebrate the Church Triumphant, sometimes a costume will suffice.”
Richard James Umbers (born 1971) first seen 2022 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Kids take back Halloween (28 October 2022) The Catholic Weekly
“By what miracle has this poor nation managed to stay so good, so welcoming, so joyful for so long, despite its poverty, despite injustice, prejudice, and our many civil wars?...Despite the ruins, despite the poverty, our little town remains beautiful. I realize this once in a while, in jolts of awareness. Habit destroys pleasure. (p8)”
Marie Vieux-Chauvet (1916–1973) said by 1973 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In Jesus Christ, God not only speaks to man but also seeks him. God and man meet in Christ. The Church is the servant and mediator of this encounter so that man may live. The joyful, firm proclamation of Christ's Good News is therefore essential, since no other name is given to men to ensure salvation.”
Guido Breña López (1931–2013) first seen 1997 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: H.Exc. Most Rev. Guido BREÑA LÓPEZ , O.P., Bishop of Ica (24 November 1997) Press Office of the Holy See
“Women in politics are still women. We can laugh and be joyful and still be in politics. We do not want to be like men, we want to be ourselves and still engage effectively in politics”
Meherzia Labidi Maïza (1963–2021) first seen 2017 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: From where I stand: “Women have to be at the heart of the Africa of tomorrow, retrieved on 25 July 2017
“Be joyful warriors and constant justice seekers.”
Anne Williams-Isom wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“(About Padre Pio) His profile of holiness is everything except what one usually imagines: blue, haloed, joyful. Quite the opposite.”
Sandro Magister (born 1943) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“… remember that because this work is so hard, because it is a lifetime of work, we can also pursue it in a way that is joyful.”
Ashanti Johnson wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“That’s expensive and thankless work until it’s done, and then it’s joyful”
Jane Fraser (born 1967) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The idea that Africa is sad, or deserves pity and sympathy. We want to push back to say we are joyful people and we deserve pride”
Wanuri Kahiu (born 1980) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“This book is for those who are seeking ways to truly give the kind of care to themselves that make for long, healthy and joyful lives”
Loida Nicolas Lewis (born 1942) first seen 2025 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: https://philippinesgraphic.com.ph/2025/12/22/loida-nicolas-lewis-releases-new-book-on-aging-gracefully/
“When all shall see me, by fair Fortune's love Pass through the days which Fate unsparing spins On her eternal distaff for my destiny, Joyful, contented with myself; for then Far other shall I be than now I am.”
Ercole Consalvi (1757–1824) said by 1824 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What is different about beauty is its destructive effect. The joyful tension of a poem bursts your poor heart, if it enters you. You are the victim who devoutly welcomes the sharp knife with which beauty sacrifices you. No one must be where beauty is, it seems to say, and with a disdainful gesture it turns its back on you. Those who see the face of beauty die, yes, but not in despair.”
Manlio Sgalambro (1924–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When you were a tadpole and I was a fish, back in the Paleozoic era, my heart was overflowing with joyful vitality because I had loved you ever since then. (p. 3)”
Piergiorgio Odifreddi (born 1950) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And martyrs, when the joyful crown is given, Forget the pain by which they purchased heaven.”
George Stepney (1663–1707) said by 1707 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: To King James II, upon his Accession to the Throne", in The Third Part of Miscellany Poems, published by Dryden, 5th ed. (London: printed for J. Tonson, 1727), p. 292
“O God, animate us to cheerfulness! May we have a joyful sense of our blessings, learn to look on the bright circumstances of our lot, and maintain a perpetual contentedness.”
William Ellery Channing (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Thou and I individuals no more shall be mingled in ecstasy, Joyful and secure from foolish babble, thou and I. All the bright plumed birds of heaven will devour their hearts with envy In the place where we shall laugh in such a fashion thou and I.”
Rumi (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A truer description would have said that Feynman was all genius and all buffoon. The deep thinking and the joyful clowning were not separate parts of a split personality. He did not do his thinking on Monday and his clowning on Tuesday. He was thinking and clowning simultaneously.”
Richard Feynman (1918–1988) first seen 1988 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Freeman Dyson, 1988 remark, as published in From Eros to Gaia (1992), p. 314
“R. A. Lafferty is unique, in the old, unspoiled sense of the word. A genius as wild and joyful, delightful and unpredictable as his comes along but once in a lifetime — this lifetime. Cherish him. If there were no Lafferty, we would lack the imagination to invent him.”
R. A. Lafferty (1914–2002) first seen 1991 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Michael Swanwick, quoted in the first edition of Lafferty in Orbit (1991)
“All paths are the same: they lead nowhere. However, a path without a heart is never enjoyable. On the other hand, a path with heart is easy - it does not make a warrior work at liking it; it makes for a joyful journey; as long as a man follows it, he is one with it.”
Carlos Castaneda (1925–1998) said by 1998 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider.”
The Bible (active around 812) bartlett, Public domain source
“For sorrow is our joy, And joy our greatest sorrow. Elissa dies tonight, And Carthage flames tomorrow.”
Nahum Tate (1652–1715) said by 1715 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To-day, whatever may annoy, The word for me is Joy, just simple Joy.”
John Kendrick Bangs (1862–1922) said by 1922 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My interest in culture generally is a comparative one, and I think that's where the word joy, I think, can be applicable. There's joy in actually seeing the relatedness, the connectedness of different cultures or recognising, for instance, your own culture in another or another culture in your own culture and feeling an air to all of them.”
Wole Soyinka (born 1934) first seen 1986 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Nobel Prize in Literature 1986
“Weep not, my wanton, smile upon my knee; When thou art old there’s grief enough for thee. Mother's wag, pretty boy. Father's sorrow, father's joy; When thy father first did see Such a boy by him and me, He was glad, I was woe; Fortune changed made him so, When he left his pretty boy, Last his sorrow, first his joy.”
Robert Greene (dramatist) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The songwriting style, to me, is superior... there was a certain amount of joy in it, no matter how sad the song is. You get joy in listening to these Buddy Holly or Roy Orbison sad lyrics. I'm attracted to songs that have balance between the darks and the lights and giving them all equal opportunity.”
M. Ward (born 1973) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On songwriting styles of the post-World War II era, in an interview with Bob Boilen on All Songs Considered (17 November 2006) (NPR)
“If you use any external activity to create an inner situation, you naturally get enslaved to that external activity, and that becomes the condition for your joy. That's the basis of your slavery and bondage; unless you change that, you will never know joy as a way of being.”
“I believe that into the weakest, saddest heart that opens to receive this Divine Guest, the Father and the Son will come and abide; and the exalted joy that abiding brings, what words can express! The Divine dwelling in the human, the Infinite in the finite, how marvelous! how glorious! This must be the real foretaste of heavenly joy — the truest heaven we can know on earth.”
Arthur Kenney (1776–1855) said by 1855 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There could be joy in destruction, too, couldn’t there? Isn’t Jesus Christ’s Second Coming supposed to occur only after a lot of unmitigated destruction? But again, human history is fraught with tragedies in which man spared no effort to destroy with millenarian joy, only to learn that no messiah appeared afterwards.”
Kenzaburō Ōe (1935–2023) said by 2023 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You bring me so much joy And then you bring me More joy...”
“Joy is the sweet voice, Joy the luminous cloud — We in ourselves rejoice! And thence flows all that charms or ear or sight, All melodies the echoes of that voice, All colours a suffusion from that light.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) said by 1834 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source