J Quotes
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“Joy weathers any storm: Happiness rides the waves.”
“Joy' to me is a reflection of the life experiences that I've had throughout the first record and kind of having some time and a hiatus. It's just like all of those experiences that I had during that period - that growing up period.”
“Joy's a subtle elf, I think man's happiest when he forgets himself.”
“Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.”
“Joy, anger, sorrow, happiness, find no place in that man's breast; for to him all creation is ONE. And all things being thus united in ONE, his body and limbs are but as dust of the earth, and life and death, beginning, and end, are but as night and day, and cannot destroy his peace. How much less such trifles as gain or loss, misfortune or good fortune?”
“Joy, collected over time, fuels resilience - ensuring we'll have reservoirs of emotional strength when hard things do happen.”
“Joy, feeling one’s own value, being appreciated and loved by others, feeling useful and capable of production are all factors of enormous value for the human soul.”
“Joy, grief, desire or fear, whate'er the name The passion bears, its influence is the same; Where things exceed your hope or fall below, You stare, look blank, grow numb from top to toe.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Horace (Illustrated)
“Joy, happiness ... we do not question. They are beyond question, maybe. A matter of being. But pain forces us to think, and to make connections ... to discover what has been happening to cause it. And, curiously enough, pain draws us to other human beings in a significant way, whereas joy or happiness to some extent, isolates.”
Source: Recovering: A Journal
“Joy, happiness, are hopes and our dreams.... A place of peace and harmony... that's the kind of land I invision.”
“Joy, in Nature's wide dominion, Mightiest cause of all is found; And 'tis joy that moves the pinion When the wheel of time goes round.”
Source: The Poems of Schiller, Complete: Including All His Early Suppressed Pieces
“Joy, like love, is an impenetrable, God-given state of being. The distinctions between joy and happiness and love and affection are important ones under the notion that happiness is an 'iffy' emotion, a highly dependent feeling both aroused and destroyed by external conditions apart from God. And the distinction between love and affection is parallel to such.”
Source: Killosophy
“Joy, not grit, is the hallmark of holy obedience. We need to be light-hearted in what we do to avoid taking ourselves too seriously. It is a cheerful revolt against self and pride.”
“Joy, oh joy. He’d rather have his entrails pulled out through his nostrils.’ (Fang)”
Source: Bad Moon Rising: A Dark-Hunter Novel
“Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one's identity as a being of worth and dignity.”
Source: Man's Search for Himself
“Joy, shipmate, joy! (Pleased to my soul at death I cry), Our life is closed, our life begins, The long, long anchorage we leave, The ship is clear at last, she leaps! She swiftly courses from the shore, Joy, shipmate, joy!”
“Joy, sorrow, tears, lamentation, laughter -- to all these music gives voice”
Source: The Words of Albert Schweitzer
“Joy, sorrow, tears, lamentation, laughter -- to all these music gives voice, but in such a way that we are transported from the world of unrest to a world of peace, and see reality in a new way, as if we were sitting by a mountain lake and contemplating hills and woods and clouds in the tranquil and fathomless water.”
“Joy, thou spark from Heav'n immortal,
Daughter of Elysium!
Drunk with fire, toward Heaven advancing
Goddess, to thy shrine we come.
Thy sweet magic brings together
What stern Custom spreads afar;
All men become brothers
Where thy happy wing-beats are.”
“Joy, when it is excessive, overcomes as much as grief.”
Source: Tragedies
“Joy, which was the small publicity of the pagan, is the gigantic secret of the Christian.”
Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton
“Joy, whose hand is ever at his lips, bidding adieu”
“Joy, with peace, is the sister of charity. Serve the Lord with laughter.”
“Joy:show joy & enjoy: then others will be joyful.”
Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“Joyce acquits Blake peremptorily of the charges of insanity and vague mysticism: For the first, 'To say that a great genius is mad, is no better than to say he is a rheumatic or diabetic.' For the second, he was a mystic only insofar as he could be one and remain an artist; his mysticism was no swooning ecstasy like that of St. John of the Cross, but a western mysticism filled with an 'innate sense of form and the coordinating power of the intellect.”
Source: James Joyce
“Joyce dijo que al lector había que ponerle las cosas difíciles, porque la gente sólo aprecia lo que ha tenido que robar.”
Source: Viajes con un mapa en blanco
“Joyce is a poet and also an elephantine pedant.”
Source: A Collection of Essays
“Joyce y yo no habíamos llegado al diciembre de nuestra vida, pero no cabía duda de que mayo quedaba bastante atrás. Lo que compartíamos era una tarde de últimos de octubre, uno de esos luminosos días de otoño con un vívido cielo azul, un aire fresco y tonificante, y un millón de hojas aún adheridas a los árboles: marrones en su mayor parte, pero todavía con suficientes tonos dorados, rojizos y amarillos para tener ganas de estar al aire libre lo más posible”
Source: The Brooklyn Follies
“Joyce, you know you can't pick a fight with everyone who has something to say about us, don't you?'
'I know,' she whispered into the darkness. 'There's too many of them, and not enough hours in the day.'
'It's funny,' said Hubert. 'Until me came to this country me went my whole life thinking me was just plain old Hubert Bird and then me come and find that actually me the devil himself.”
Source: All the Lonely People
“Joyce's writing in Dubliners contains some of the most unshowily beautiful sentences in the English language. I learned from him that if you write a good, clean line of English, you can get under a reader's skin. The reader won't even know why, but there you are. Didion, Berger, the many others I mentioned above, and many, many poets I haven't mentioned. Writers of this calibre are the moving targets the rest of us are always chasing.”
“Joyful friends, mostly loyal, they hadn't abandoned their protector before the gathering storm; and despite the threatening sky, despite the shuddering earth, they remained, smiling, considerate, and as devoted to misfortune as they had been to prosperity.”
Source: The Man in the Iron Mask
“Joyful gratitude creates a happy life.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“Joyful is the accumulation of good work.”
“Joyful let the soul be in the present, let it disdain to trouble about what is beyond and temper bitterness with a laugh. Nothing is blessed forever.”
“Joyful life, sharing life with people.”
“Joyful living is a healthy life.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“Joyful moments crystallize into memory, while trials transform into wisdom.”
Source: The Light in the Heart
“Joyful morning, good morning, good day.”
“Joyful play helps us find our talents.”
Source: A Lil' Bert Can't Hurt: Words and Wisdom for Daily Life
“Joyful, all ye nations, rise. Join the triumph of the skies. With angelic hosts proclaim "Christ is born in Bethlehem!”
Source: Hark! the Herald Angels Sing
“Joyful, joyful, joyful, as only dogs know how to be happy with only the autonomy of their shameless spirit.”
“Joyfully celebrating the killing of a killer who joyfully celebrated killing carries an irony that I hope will not be lost on us. Are we learning anything, or simply spinning harder in the cycle of violence?”
“Joyfully we undertake our daily work.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“Joyfulness is the highest form of gratitude.”
“Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young.”
Source: ORISON SWETT MARDEN Premium Collection - Wisdom & Empowerment Series (18 Books in One Volume): Steps to Success and Power, How to Get What You Want, An Iron Will, Be Good to Yourself, Every Man A King, Keeping Fit, Prosperity – How to Attract It, Stepping-Stones To Fame And Fortune...
“Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us.”
Source: ORISON SWETT MARDEN Premium Collection - Wisdom & Empowerment Series (18 Books in One Volume): Steps to Success and Power, How to Get What You Want, An Iron Will, Be Good to Yourself, Every Man A King, Keeping Fit, Prosperity – How to Attract It, Stepping-Stones To Fame And Fortune...
“Joylessness may be the sin most readily tolerated by the church.”
“Joyous Sound evolved from a gospel influence. Actually it evolved out of sitting at a piano and just picking out a riff, a gospel type riff. It just seemed to come joyously-something about the song, about living in another place of joyous sounds. I'm not quite sure-that's one I'm trying to analyze. It just came out.”
“Joyously participate in the sorrows of others.”
“Joyously solve and stay pure with resolve.”