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Quotes About Joy

Nobody's sweetheart is ugly.
~ J. J. Vade
The worst sin-perhaps the only sin- passion can commit is to be joyless.
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
Australia is so kind that, just tickle her with a hoe, and she laughs with a harvest.
~ Douglas Jerrold
'Let us not get so busy or live so fast that we can't listen to the music of the meadow or the symphony that glorifies the forest. Some things in the world are far more important than wealth; one of them is the ability to enjoy simple things.
~ Dale Carnegie
Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion.
~ Benjamin Franklin
If you're happy, you're wealthy! Happiness doesn't need a bank account.
~ Sr. Mary Christelle Macaluso
Welcome as the flowers in May.
~ Walter Scott
She is a winsome wee thing, She is a handsome wee thing, She is a bonny wee thing, This sweet wee wife o' mine.
~ James Drummond Burns
Wine that maketh glad the heart of man.
~ Bible
The only joy in the world is to begin.
~ Cesare Pavese
Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.
~ Kahlil Gibran
The fun of being alive is realizing that you have a talent and you can use it every day, so it grows stronger. ... And if you're in an atmosphere where this talent is appreciated instead of just tolerated, why, it's just as good as sex.
~ Lou Centlivre
Give me a man who sings at his work.
~ Thomas Carlyle
What a man accomplishes in a day depends upon the way in which he approaches his tasks. When we accept tough jobs as a challenge to our ability and wade into them with joy and enthusiasm, miracles can happen. When we do our work with a dynamic, conquering spirit, we get things done.
~ Arland Gilbert
And only the Master shall praise us, and only the Master shall blame; And no one shall work for money, and no one shall work for fame; But each for the joy of the working, and each, in his separate star, Shall draw the Thing as he sees It, for the God of things as They Are!
~ Rudyard Kipling
This world is all a fleeting show, For man's illusion given; The smiles of joy, the tears of woe, Deceitful shine, deceitful flow, - There's nothing true but Heaven.
~ George Moore
Glee! The great storm is over!
~ Emily Dickinson
I have cultivated my hysteria with joy and terror.
~ Charles Baudelaire
Ah! happy years! once more who would not be a boy!
~ Lord Byron
Shiver my timbers!... Bless your dear eyes, that sparkle with elation...
~ Anonymous, c.1893
May your home always be too small to hold all of your friends.
~ Author Unknown
There is no such thing as a happy life — there are only happy days.
~ André Theuriet
Addictions — particularly nicotine and alcohol — are energy thieves. They are toxic energy that disrupts the flow and balance of your natural energy. Addictions injure the body, enslave the mind, and suppress the capacity of the human spirit to experience joy. They ruin health, happiness, and life itself.
~ Edward A. Taub, M.D.
Let your joy scream across the pain.
~ Terri Guillemets