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Quotes About Joy

Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.
~ Francis Bacon
A good life is a series of joyful meetings and joyful moments.
~ Francis Bacon
There are times of pure joy when you wish all human life well.
~ Francis Bacon
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~ Francis Bacon
Instead of being a time of unusual behavior, Christmas is perhaps the only time in the year when people can obey their natural impulses and express their true sentiments without feeling self-conscious and, perhaps, foolish. Christmas, in short, is about the only chance a man has to be himself.
~ Francis C. Farley
I loved it; I was living a dream.
~ Francis Ford Coppola
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
~ Francis Herbert Bradley
It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look.
~ Francis of Assisi
Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus…. Thank God! he lives, and he lives forever. A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay ten times ten thousand years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood.
~ Francis Pharcellus Church
Let all thy joys be as the month of May, And all thy days be as a marriage day.
~ Francis Quarles
Let all thy joys be as the month of May.
~ Francis Quarles
No hay gusto más descansado que después de haber cagado.
~ Francisco de Quevedo
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~ Francisco de Quevedo
The time we need in order to heal our wounds and finally manifest our deepest dreams is only as long as the gap between two thoughts. These are thoughts in polarity, such as separation and unity, conflict and peace, misery and joy, hate and love, etc. Since as human beings we are all capable of experiencing both thoughts, the only skill we need to develop involves mastering the GAP.
~ Franco Santoro
Only our imagination has the power to create the world you want and whatever gives you true joy. Beware of those who tell you to face reality and let go of your imagination. All they may truly ask for is that you shift your imagination from what you want to what they want.
~ Franco Santoro
Seeing how sorrow eats you, defeats you. I'd rather write about laughing than crying, For laughter makes men human, and courageous.
~ Francois Rabelais
to laugh is proper to the man.
~ Francois Rabelais
Today, I demand that a film express either the joy of making cinema or the agony of making cinema . I am not at all interested in anything in between; I am not interested in all those films that do not pulse.
~ Francois Truffaut
There can never be enough said of the virtues, dangers, the power of a shared laugh.
~ Francoise Sagan
the lovable is not scarce- it is everywhere. Everything you touch is lovable. There is a hufe surplus, a thousand wonderful things to do, see, feel, taste and smell and a million wonderful people to respond to, talk to, do things for, and delight in, ideas to play with, skills to learn, pictures to paint, songs to sing, grass to mow, poems to write, food to cook and dishes to wash. Each of these is one more occasion to love, out of countless such.
~ Frank Adams
I suppose there are people who can pass up free guacamole, but they're either allergic to avocado or too joyless to live.
~ Frank Bruni
People who flourish make a decision to flourish. They point themselves toward joy.
~ Frank Bruni
I suppose there are people who can pass up free guacamole, but they're either allergic to avocado or to joyless to live.
~ Frank Bruni
Some people waste their smiles by using them too often. Not Patrick. He rarely smiled—but when he did, his face shone like the sun after rain.
~ Frank Delaney