J Quotes
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“Joy lasts in memory, it thrives in sharing.”
Source: Runic Book of Days: A Guide to Living the Annual Cycle of Rune Magick
“Joy lies in the fight, in the attempt, in the suffering involved, not in the victory itself”
Source: Collected Works
“Joy
Life's pure joy is in doing nothing, no wonder, we seldom experience it, for we are driven to do something or the other, all the time”
“Joy lifts us up into the heavens, while grief pulls us down into the earth, and in this way they both help us maintain our emotional balance.”
“Joy lives concealed in grief.”
“Joy makes the longest journey too short.”
Source: Wooden on Leadership: How to Create a Winning Organizaion
“Joy makes us feel good, pain makes us alive.”
Source: Yüz Şiirlerin Yüzüğü (Ring of 100 Poems, Bilingual Edition): 100 Turkish Poems with Translations
“Joy makes us giddy, dizzy.”
“Joy may be a miser,
But Sorrow's purse is free.”
“Joy may you have and gentle hearts content
Of your loves couplement:
And let faire Venus, that is Queene of love,
With her heart-quelling Sonne upon you smile”
Source: The poetical works of Edmund Spenser ...
“Joy means so much more when shared with you.”
Source: A School for Unusual Girls
“Joy mingled with sadness, even with grief, is the deepest human joy. It winds itself about the soul with indescribable sweetness, with a dim but unerring sense for what will some day be born of it.”
“Joy multiplies when it is shared among friends, but grief diminishes with every division. That is life.”
Source: Exile: The Legend of Drizzt
“Joy multiplies when shared with the one you love.”
Source: Beyond the Bouquet: A Symphony of Love in Fifty Movements
“Joy must be one of the pivots of our life. It is the token of a generous personality. Sometimes it is also a mantle that clothes a life of sacrifice and self-giving. A person who has this gift often reaches high summits. He or she is like sun in a community.”
Source: In the Heart of the World: Thoughts, Stories & Prayers (Easyread Large Edition)
“Joy needs no object; it is our own nature.”
“Joy never feasts so high as when the first course is of misery.”
Source: The Poems, Plays and Other Remains of Sir John Suckling
“Joy not shared is joy wasted.”
“Joy, not sorrow.
Laughter, not tears.
Life, not death.
Love, not blame.”
Source: I Heart You, You Haunt Me
“Joy of Conscience (The Sonnet)
Conscience brings joy,
Conscience brings relief.
It's a different kind of joy,
sanctified by bouts of grief.
Conscience causes content,
unsurpassed by material excitement.
Only through conscientious moderation,
shall we overcome shallow derangement.
Materials are needed for sustenance,
beyond that point it becomes poison.
Cluttering the mind with toxic waste,
it separates the human from human.
Conscience brings joy,
untainted by shallow glee.
Surrounded by ritual compromise,
conscience alone can set us free.”
Source: Abigitano: El Divino Refugiado
“Joy of life... depends upon a certain spontaneity in regard to sex. Where sex is repressed, only work remains, and a gospel of work for work's sake never produced any work worth doing.”
Source: The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell
“Joy of living is sustainable; fear of dying is not.”
Source: The Spectrum: How to Customize a Way of Eating and Living Just Right for You and Your Family
“Joy of Technological innovation
Be aware of their mission to society
Work to their hearts content”
“Joy only can be achieved through complete detachment, the detachment which is egoless and superegoless.”
“Joy passed, but happiness never completely disappeared; a touch of it would always remain to remind one it had been there. It was happiness that made one smile, then.”
Source: North to freedom
“Joy Rains has a gift. A gift for explaining abstract concepts like meditation through clever analogies and metaphors. FOR THE FIRST TIME in my hectic, harried life I actually UNDERSTAND how meditation is supposed to work and WHY I should give it a TRY!”
“Joy requires at least two conditions: submission and service. If yee abide, submission means staying put when it might seem smart to quit. It means having done all to stand when there is only a toehold. It means believing God when it appears far wiser to believe everybody else. It means defying one's feelings and fears and saying triumphantly, 'Thy will be done.'
Joy comes through service. Most Christians are activists--they get caught up in some kind of church work. But not all of it is good. Not all of it is essential. Even missionaries find themselves tangled in lesser things than winning the lost. Unprayerful souls soon get diverted from the supreme task he appointed for them. This is why submission is also necessary.
Let me summarize it this way: The way to enjoy indestructible peace and joy is to determine 1.) to do whatever God commands, however difficult. 2.) to endure whatever God appoints, however severe. 3.) to obtain whatever God promises, however seemingly unobtainable. 4.) to die daily, however costly the crucifixion. 5.) to love my enemies, however misunderstood in this. 6.) to pray without ceasing, and in everything give thanks. This will give one a healthy soul, and a conscience void of offense before God and man.”
Source: Revival God's Way
“Joy requires one to be awake, Adjusting the heart's ambience to bright. Some prefer the dark, as is their right, On grounds of agony, and to forsake Not only bliss, but all that's blessed by light.”
“Joy returns us to everything that is good and beautiful and worth fighting for. In joy, we see even darkness with new eyes.”
Source: See No Stranger: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love
“Joy rises in me, like a summer's morn.”
Source: The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions
“Joy rul'd the day, and Love the night.”
Source: The Works of John Dryden in Verse and Prose
“Joy's a subtil elf.
I think man's happiest when he forgets himself.”
Source: The Revenger's Tragedy
“Joy scratched the top of Lucy’s head, then stilled her hand. White fur formed a circle beneath her fingers. The angel had left his mark. Goosebumps broke out on her arms. If the angel had been real, did that mean demons also existed? Mom believed in both. Should she?”
“Joy seems to me a step beyond happiness- happiness is a sort of atmosphere you can live in sometimes when you're lucky. Joy is a light that fills you with hope and faith and love.”
“Joy situates every emotion within itself. It grounds them so that one isn’t overindulged while the others lie starving. Joy doesn’t replace any emotion; it holds them all and keeps them from swallowing us whole. Society has failed to understand this. When it tells us to find joy in suffering, it is telling us to let it go, to move on, to smile through it. But joy says, Hold on to your sorrow. It can rest safely here.”
Source: This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us
“Joy springs from a life lived with eternity's values in view.”
“Joy steals upon me, such joy as calls forth tears.”
Source: The Oresteia: Agamemnon, Choephoroe, Eumenides
“Joy surfeited turns to sorrow.”
“Joy takes away from us the thoughts of our actions; sorrow it is that awakens the soul.”
“Joy through suffering: this phrase (extracted from one of Beethoven's letters, where it actually referred to an uncomfortable coach journey) became the central motto of the Beethoven cult [..].”
Source: Music: A Very Short Introduction
“Joy to hearts which have suffered long is like the dew on the ground after a long drought; both the heart and the ground absorb that beneficent moisture falling on them, and nothing is outwardly apparant.”
Source: The Count of Monte Cristo
“Joy to the world
All the boys and girls now
Joy to the fishes in the deep blue sea
Joy to you and me”
“Joy to the world, the Lord is come / Let earth receive her King / Let every heart, prepare him room / And heaven and nature sing.”
“Joy untouched by thankfulness is always suspect.”
“Joy waits on welcome, not time.”
Source: Happiness Now!: Timeless Wisdom for Feeling Good Fast
“Joy wants the eternity of all things, wants deep, wants deep eternity.”
“Joy was a flame in me Too steady to destroy. Lithe as a bending reed, Loving the storm that sways her”
Source: Mirror of the Heart: Poems of Sara Teasdale
“Joy was defiance in a world that kept breaking us.”
Source: Small Town Gayby: Where The Scar Remains
“Joy was made of moments like this, each insignificant in itself, piled together into a monolith, immutable and strong, something to lean against when one's world went awry.
[Jim Agnihotri]”
Source: Murder in Old Bombay
“Joy was more than just an absence of discomfort.”
Source: Elantris: Tenth Anniversary Author's Definitive Edition