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Isabelle Adjani There has also been much love...
Mortimer Adler Ultimately, we wish the joy of...
Aeschylus There is no pain so great...
Kamal Ahmed Ah, the pleasure, the joy - a...
Eddie Albert I don't really care how I...
William Ames In contentment and joy are...
Henri Frederic Amiel Conquering any difficulty always gives...
Greg Anderson Focus on the journey, not the...
Walter Anderson We're never so vulnerable than...
Laurie Anderson Performance art is about joy...
Ursula Andress Collecting is my joy; it gives...
Julie Andrews Garry Marshall is a joy. I...
Barbara de Angelis Love is a force more...
Guillaume Apollinaire Joy always came after pain.
Nicole Appleton Being a mum has made me...
Saint Thomas Aquinas Man cannot live without joy...
Neil Armstrong Pilots take no special joy in...
John Armstrong Music exalts each joy, allays...
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo I want ordinary people to...
Matthew Ashford For me, the joy of doing...
Marvin J. Ashton Pleasure usually takes the form...
Ed Asner Raising kids is part joy and...
Brooks Atkinson There is no joy so great...
Margaret Atwood I've never understood why people...
Kevyn Aucoin Beauty is about perception, not...
Kevyn Aucoin Today I choose life. Every...
W. H. Auden In times of joy, all of...
Richard Bach The bond that links your true...
Pearl Bailey The sweetest joy, the wildest...
Pearl Bailey The sweetest joy, the wildest...
Richard H. Baker It is my hope that during...
Hosea Ballou Tears of joy are like the...
Honore De Balzac It is only in the act...
Honore De Balzac Excess of joy is harder to...
Anne Bancroft I don't quite jump for joy...
Brigitte Bardot I am not finding pregnancy...
Bob Barker Nothing gives me quite so much...
Amelia Barr It is only in sorrow bad...
Luis Barragan A garden must combine the...
James M. Barrie I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a...
Karl Barth Joy is the simplest form of...
Cecilia Bartoli It's such a joy to work...
Cecilia Bartoli It's a dream come true, and...
Lewis J. Bates The joy late coming late...
Michael Bay We don't make movies for...
Michael Bay For me, the great joy is...
James Beattie From labour health, from health...
Henry Ward Beecher The sun does not shine for...
Ludwig van Beethoven Off with you! You're a happy...
Alban Berg I can tell you, dearest friend...
Henri Bergson There is no greater joy than...
Sarah Bernhardt What matters poverty? What matters...
Todd Berry And the goal really is to...
Vinoba Bhave If we could only snap the...
Bob Black I call for a collective...
Bob Black I call for a collective...
William Blake The tree which moves some to...
William Blake I have no name: I am...
William Blake Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy...
William Blake He who binds to himself a...
Don Bluth If the machines can take the...
Bodhidharma All the suffering and joy we...
Bodhidharma Those who remain unmoved by...
Dietrich Bonhoeffer Gratitude changes the pangs of...
Constantin Brancusi Don't look for obscure formulas...
Henri Cartier-Bresson To photograph is to hold one's...
James Broughton The quietest poetry can be an...
James Broughton The most astonishing joy is to...
James Brown When I'm on stage, I'm trying...
Robert Browning How good is man's life, the...
William C. Bryant There is no glory in star...
John Buchan There may be Peace without Joy...
Pearl S. Buck The secret of joy in work...
Pearl S. Buck To find joy in work is...
Pearl S. Buck To serve is beautiful, but...
Buddha We are formed and molded by...
Buddha We are shaped by our thoughts...
Frederick Buechner Compassion is sometimes the fatal...
Fanny Burney I cannot sleep - great joy is...
John Burroughs Joy in the universe, and keen...
Leo Buscaglia Worry never robs tomorrow of...
Frank Butler The joy of giving is indeed...
Lord Byron When the green woods laugh...
Lord Byron To have joy one must share...
Lord Byron All who joy would win must...
Eileen Caddy Let there be more joy and...
Eileen Caddy Gratitude helps you to grow...
Taylor Caldwell Learning should be a joy and...
John Calvin You must submit to supreme...
Joseph Campbell Find a place inside where...
Joseph Campbell Participate joyfully in the sorrows...
Margaret Carlson As a columnist, I realize that...
Thomas Carlyle A laugh, to be joyous, must...
Bliss Carman Set me a task in which...
Bliss Carman Set me a task in which...
Charisma Carpenter The road Cordelia has travelled...
Lewis Carroll While the laughter of joy is...
Angela Carter What a joy it is to...
William Cartwright Tell me not of joy: there's...
Ana Castillo Our goal should be to achieve...
John Cheever The deep joy we take in...
Victor Cherbuliez Half the joy of life is...
Kate Chopin When the doctors came they...
Christo We tell them that we believe...
Marcus Tullius Cicero Friendship improves happiness and abates...
Terri Clark I think I've grown a lot...
Rosemary Clooney I'll keep working as long as...
Chuck Close Part of the joy of looking...
Tom Cochrane I make a living doing what...
Jean Cocteau Commissions suit me. They set...
Alan Cohen Joy is not the result of...
Phil Collen Every night is a joy; you...
Chick Corea It's very difficult for me to...
Pierre Corneille We never taste a perfect joy...
Howard Cosell Then there is a still higher...
Kevin Costner I enjoy sports. I get a...
Pierre de Coubertin Olympism seeks to create a way...
Pierre de Coubertin May joy and good fellowship...
George Crabbe With eye upraised his master's...
Jon Crosby It's a very nice thing to...
Aleister Crowley The joy of life consists in...
Tony Curtis I'm world famous, everywhere I...
Jim Dale The joy about the recording is...
Ossie Davis I find, in being black, a...
Rene Descartes Illusory joy is often worth...
Charles Dickens The pain of parting is nothing...
Emily Dickinson Find ecstasy in life; the mere...
Marlene Dietrich I love quotations because it...
Anthony Doerr Short stories are wonderful and...
John Donne Despair is the damp of hell...
David Douglas The joy of viewing land, the...
Rita Dove The joy of working at...
Fran Drescher And remember, it's also very...
Ann Druyan People think that if you are...
John Dryden Seek not to know what must...
George Duke When I think about my new...
Eleonora Duse If the sight of the blue...
Eleanora Duse If the sight of the blue...
Shelley Duvall We live from day to day...
Albert Einstein It is the supreme art of...
Albert Einstein Joy in looking and comprehending...
Ralph Waldo Emerson It is a greater joy to...
Garth Ennis I suppose that Heartland, Unknown...
Joseph Epstein The pleasure of jogging and...
Erik Erikson Children love and want to be...
Antoine de Saint-Exupery True happiness comes from the...
Antoine de Saint-Exupery Whoever loves above all the...
Edward Fairfax Each mind is pressed, and open...
Henry Fielding Great joy, especially after a...
Debbi Fields I've never felt like I was...
Terence Fisher Certainly Dracula did bring a...
Louise Fletcher Life had stopped for her a...
Henry Ford There is joy in work. There...
E. M. Forster Those who prepared for all the...
Bill Forsyth I didn't think Comfort and Joy...
Bill Forsyth It means that if they...
Anatole France Irony is the gaiety of...
Anna Freud Who promised you that only for...
Erich Fromm Who will tell whether one...
Eduardo Galeano This work is a torture on...
John Galliano There's room for the Gap, but...
Mohandas Gandhi Service which is rendered without...
Bob Geldof The girls are a complete joy...
Bob Geldof Certainly, I think being depressed...
Kahlil Gibran Work is love made visible. And...
Kahlil Gibran Poetry is a deal of joy...
Kahlil Gibran When you are joyous, look deep...
Kahlil Gibran There are those who give with...
Kahlil Gibran You pray in your distress and...
Andre Gide Through loyalty to the past...
Delphine de Girardin To love the one who loves...
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Only by joy and sorrow does...
Vincent Van Gogh Happiness... it lies in the...
Nikolai Gogol Everywhere across whatever sorrows of...
Genevieve Gorder So, to really execute design...
Gale Gordon I had admired Richard Burton...
Gale Gordon I've worked with very few that...
Maxim Gorky When work is a pleasure, life...
Maxim Gorky When work is a pleasure, life...
David Grayson Talk of joy: there may be...
Germaine Greer The surest guide to the...
Joyce Grenfell There is no such thing as...
George Grosz Peace was declared, but not...
Jessica Hagedorn But I think there's a genuine...
Nhat Hanh Sometimes your joy is the...
Vaclav Havel Hope is a state of mind...
Goldie Hawn We have to embrace obstacles...
Roy Haynes I like to express certain...
Patricia Heaton I have to keep reminding...
Arthur Helps Strength is born in the deep...
Herman Hesse It was morning; through the...
Arthur Hiller Anyway, he and I worked on...
David Hobson I grow plants for many reasons...
Alice Hoffman I really feel like the gift...
Susanna Hoffs That was the big lesson for...
Richard Holloway Simplicity, clarity, singleness: These are...
Elbert Hubbard The ineffable joy of forgiving...
Victor Hugo Joy's smile is much closer to...
David Hume A propensity to hope and joy...
Kim Hunter A lot of more modern films...
Jesse Jackson If there are occasions when my...
Holbrook Jackson The time to read is any...
Helen Hunt Jackson Words are less needful to...
Victoria Jackson There was a lot of Southern...
Max Jacob The poet's expression of joy...
Thomas Jordan Jarvis It has worked great good in...
Johannes Vilhelm Jensen There is something of the...
Maria Jeritza It is hard to describe the...
Jerome K. Jerome I can see the humorous side...
Roland Joffe Making the City Of Joy gave...
Don Johnson It's a joy to be recognized...
Lynn Johnston When Kate was born, she was...
Chuck Jones Once you have heard a strange...
Janis Joplin Man, you and any housewife...
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. The rule of joy and the...
Philip Kaufman To me, thoughts are fun and...
Robbie Keane I used to love watching him...
John Keats A thing of beauty is a...
John Keats A thing of beauty is a...
Garrison Keillor A good newspaper is never...
Helen Keller The marvelous richness of human...
Helen Keller As selfishness and complaint pervert...
Helen Keller We could never learn to be...
Helen Keller Your success and happiness lies...
Soren Kierkegaard There are, as is known...
Val Kilmer That's the joy of art - it...
Thomas Kinkade Balance, peace, and joy are...
Rudyard Kipling And the first rude sketch that...
Sally Kirkland A lot of my joy this...
Henry A. Kissinger Art is man's expression of his...
Richard Krajicek Safin, in his way, is very...
Jack Kroll He was one of those...
Jack Kroll Did any artist ever bring more...
Joseph Wood Krutch If we do not permit the...
Charles Kuralt I think all those people I...
Charles Kuralt Look for joy in your life...
Swoosie Kurtz I am heartbroken that this...
Christian L. Lange Within each such social group...
Doug Larson The only nice thing about...
Yves Saint Laurent I want to thank all the...
Jerome Lawrence It's always such a joy that...
David Herbert Lawrence The only history is a mere...
Stanislaw Lec When you jump for joy, beware...
Chris LeDoux I always was one who didn't...
Ursula K. LeGuin I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness...
Ninon de Lenclos The joy of the mind is...
Joshua Leonard Pain is pain, joy is joy...
C. S. Lewis I sometimes wander whether all...
Jerry Lewis I am probably the most selfish...
Robert Ley He who does not believe has...
Anne Morrow Lindbergh For happiness one needs security...
Bai Ling But somehow I feel like still...
Peter Lombard Therefore the elect shall go...
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Joy, temperance, and repose, slam...
Audre Lorde The sharing of joy, whether...
Christopher Love Blessed be God that Thou hast...
H. P. Lovecraft To the scientist there is the...
James Russell Lowell Joy comes, grief goes, we know...
Lucretius Pleasant it is, when over a...
Joanna Lumley Though I was a mother at...
Robert Bulwer-Lytton Be it jewel or toy, not...
Mary MacLane The only joy I had was...
Bernard Malamud Life is a tragedy full of...
George Leigh Mallory What we get from this...
Chuck Mangione I am glad that I wrote...
Chuck Mangione I do not mind having written...
Thomas Mann The writer's joy is the...
Gabriel Marcel The striking thing about the...
Steve Martin The real joy is in...
Gerald Massey Not by appointment do we meet...
Mireille Mathieu It doesn't matter if you have...
Kathy Mattea That's the great paradox of...
Rollo May Joy, rather than happiness, is...
Mercedes McCambridge I believe in joy, but I...
Mike McCready That's what music has always...
Bobby McFerrin If I can bring joy into...
Vincent McNabb Sometimes it is a great joy...
Bernard Meltzer Use those talents you have...
Dmitri Mendeleev Pleasures flit by - they are...
Robert G. Menzies It is a simple but sometimes...
Thomas Merton Be good, keep your feet dry...
Edna St. Vincent Millay Beauty is whatever gives joy.
Henry Miller Whatever I do is done out...
Henry Miller Instead of asking 'How much...
Ho Chi Minh But by reading them again and...
Liza Minnelli I know that. I'm having a...
William Minto An attitude of philosophic doubt...
Moliere It is a fine seasoning for...
Claude Monet Color is my day-long obsession...
Alfred A. Montapert Happy is the person who not...
Joe Moore Money is a strange thing. It...
Dylan Moran We are both drawn to surreal...
Malcolm Muggeridge I can say that I never...
Martin Mull To be able to get up...
Iris Murdoch People from a planet without...
Guru Nanak Sing the songs of joy to...
John Nash I seem to be thinking...
Liam Neeson Every cliche about kids is...
Kent Nerburn Until you have a son of...
Friedrich Nietzsche Rejoicing in our joy, not...
Anais Nin A leaf fluttered in through...
Anais Nin I will not be just a...
Dorothy L. Nolte Of all the joys that lighten...
Gregory Nunn Grief, and an estate, is joy...
Carroll O'Connor My professional life in Hollywood...
Sandra Day O'Connor Justice Ginsburg is a very...
P. J. O'Rourke Ideology, politics and journalism, which...
Peter O'Toole Where do I begin? I loved...
Olusegun Obasanjo My joy knows no bounds... I...
Hortense Odlum It seemed pathetic and terrible...
Solomon Ortiz As a father and grandfather, I...
Gilbert Parker But paying is part of the...
Andy Partridge You know, I was such a...
John Dos Passos It's almost worth having been...
Jean Paul There are souls in this world...
Jean Paul There is a joy in sorrow...
Jean Paul Joy descends gently upon us...
Cesare Pavese The only joy in the world...
George Peppard From my point of view, there...
Evita Peron The nation's government has just...
Charles Perrault The Prince, charmed with these...
Goran Persson Do not be afraid that joy...
Ruth Pitter Are you really going to see...
Plato Love is the joy of the...
Victoria Pratt Acting isn't the be-all end...
Victoria Pratt There are a lot of other...
Max de Pree We need to give each other...
Victoria Principal When I don't plumb the depths...
Adelaide Anne Procter Joy is like restless day; but...
Paul Prudhomme It's the sense of what family...
Anna Quindlen There is little premium in...
Ayn Rand Love is the expression of...
Ralph Ransom Before the reward there must...
Johannes Rau We must prepare the ground for...
Leon Redbone Lonesome. Lonesome. I know what...
Anne Rice I loved words. I love to...
Little Richard And I think a woman should...
Branch Rickey If things don't come easy...
Jay Roach Because I actually find the...
Tony Robbins Only those who have learned...
Spider Robinson Shared joy is increased, shared...
Auguste Rodin Man's naked form belongs to no...
Theodore Roethke Love begets love. This torment...
Ginger Rogers Part of the joy of dancing...
Jim Rohn Whoever renders service to many...
Jim Rohn The walls we build around us...
Richard Rolle Thy love is singular when all...
Franklin D. Roosevelt Happiness lies in the joy of...
Eleanor Roosevelt Since you get more joy out...
Christina Rossetti She gave up beauty in her...
Georges Rouault The conscience of an artist...
Gabrielle Roy The more the heart is sated...
Rosalind Russell Taking joy in living is a...
George William Russell Forgive me, Spirit of my...
Bertrand Russell A happy life must be to...
Marquis de Sade The imagination is the spur of...
Juan Antonio Samaranch Olympism is a philosophy which...
George Sand Once my heart was captured...
Carl Sandburg Let a joy keep you. Reach...
Elsa Schiaparelli Eating is not merely a...
Egon Schiele All beautiful and noble qualities...
Egon Schiele At present, I am mainly...
Rob Schneider I lost that excitement I had...
Franz Schubert No one feels another's grief...
Franz Schubert Nobody understands another's sorrow, and...
Franz Schubert No one feels another's grief...
Clara Schumann There is nothing greater than...
Clara Schumann If I have known much trouble...
David Selby And it was so special, and...
Brian Setzer A lot of people put all...
Anne Sexton The joy that isn't shared dies...
Merle Shain Loving can cost a lot but...
William Shakespeare Things won are done, joy's...
William Shakespeare Love to faults is always blind...
Al Sharpton One of the reasons I get...
Fiona Shaw To be honest I live among...
Fiona Shaw Even when they have nothing...
Percy Bysshe Shelley The soul's joy lies in doing...
Percy Bysshe Shelley I have drunken deep of joy...
Michelle Shocked I've been through some dark...
Hugh Sidey A sense of humor... is needed...
Matthew Simpson If you live for any joy...
Matthew Simpson We ourselves can die with...
Swami Sivananda Meditation is painful in the...
Logan P. Smith What joy can the years bring...
Tony Snow Yet, it ought to be obvious...
Joanna Southcott Another night I dreamed I...
Benjamin Spock I would say that the surest...
Stendhal The man of genius is he...
John Sterling Pain has its own noble joy...
Laurence Sterne So much of motion, is so...
James Stewart I'd like to do Harvey again...
Clyfford Still A great free joy surges...
W. Clement Stone There's a great joy in my...
Tom Stoppard Beauty is desired in order...
Rex Stout To read of a detective's...
J. Michael Straczynski I'm delirious with joy. It...
August Strindberg People are constantly clamoring for...
Ed Sullivan If you do a good job...
Anne Sullivan My heart is singing for joy...
William A. Sunday The trouble with many men is...
Charles R. Swindoll I cannot even imagine where I...
Rabindranath Tagore I slept and dreamt that life...
Lewis Tappan You may imagine the joy...
Henry Taube This joy of discovery is real...
Sara Teasdale Oh who can tell the range...
Sara Teasdale I found more joy in sorrow...
Tecumseh When you rise in the morning...
Mother Teresa Joy is a net of love...
Paul Theroux Death is an endless night so...
John Thorn Why we play as children is...
Glenn Tipton We love not just Judas Priest...
Barry Took It was a joy to be...
Mel Torme As a singer, the biggest joy...
Cyril Tourneur Joy is a subtle elf; I...
Polly Toynbee It is now possible to quantify...
Paul Tsongas A commencement is a time of...
Mark Twain Grief can take care if itself...
Mark Twain Everything human is pathetic. The...
Mark Twain The secret source of humor is...
Mark Twain Grief can take care of itself...
Lao Tzu Health is the greatest possession...
Leon Uris I enjoy writing, sometimes; I...
Andrew Vachss I don't understand people whose...
Luther Vandross I feel a sense of sadness...
Thorstein Veblen Labor wants pride and joy in...
Conrad Veidt For me, half the joy of...
Conrad Veidt It is my greatest joy to...
Pope Paul VI Technological society has succeeded in...
Leonardo da Vinci The noblest pleasure is the...
Virgil Perhaps the day may come when...
Richard Wagner Joy is not in things; it...
Richard Wagner I hate this fast growing...
Lindsay Wagner I think it's safe to say...
Alice Walker There are those who believe...
Barbara Walters To not sing with an orchestra...
Mary A. Ward The answer, of course, in the...
Ethel Waters It has been an ache and...
Andrew Lloyd Webber When we finally came to start...
Simone Weil To want friendship is a great...
Brian Welch I'm real excited. I'm so...
Lawrence Welk Music was my joy, my home...
Eudora Welty The excursion is the same when...
Randy West Of course watching a particularly...
Randy West That's where this exciting bundle...
Jessamyn West The source of one's joy is...
E. B. White We should all do what, in...
Oscar Wilde There is something terribly morbid...
John Wilkes A people whose souls are so...
Barry Williams I don't think of myself as...
Rowan D. Williams The Church is the new creation...
Marianne Williamson Joy, has no cost.
Marianne Williamson Joy is what happens to us...
Reese Witherspoon The joy we get as actors...
Tom Wolfe There are some people who have...
Tobias Wolff There's a joy in writing short...
Mary Wollstonecraft It appears to me impossible...
Virginia Woolf Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of...
William Wordsworth With an eye made quiet by...
Andrew Wyeth If you clean it up, get...
Minoru Yamasaki And I feel that we in...
William Butler Yeats Joy is of the will which...
William Butler Yeats Being Irish, he had an abiding...
Jack Youngblood The joy of winning is not...
Jamie Zawinski See, unlike most hackers, I...
Zhuangzi I know the joy of fishes...



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