4,580 Quotes About Joy

  • Author Louise Penny
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    Would he love this place less because he needed it less?Again he looked at Three Pines, the little village lost in the valley and felt the familiar lifting of his heart. But would it lift if there was no load?Was the final fear that, in losing his fears, he would also lose his joy?

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  • Author Robert Sharenow
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    You don't need to explain anything to me, Karl. I trust that you were a gentleman." And then he added, "Or at least I trust that you were a gentleman to as high a degree as she wanted you to be. I was a boy once too. No matter who is in power, I never want you thinking it's wrong to desire a girl's attention. That is life's greatest sweetness. I would never want to deny you that joy.

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  • Author Daniel José Older
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    And Lando had calmed, settled back down, and without even having placed his lips against hers or felt her in the thrall of passion, he had felt a strange kind of peacefulness flood over him. It wasn’t the reeling outburst of excitement that came with victory at the card table, had none of the smugness that would rise in him at that blissfull culmination of a con. No, this was something much more long lasting and delicious. This was joy.

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  • Author Cailah
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    Settled in my blanket of dreams,Hugging my thoughts of you.I close my eyes and secretly wishThat someday you'll love me too.Reality whispers in the back of my head,"He will never be happy with you."But I've escaped to my fantasy landA place where happiness can come true.

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  • Author Margaret Atwood
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    And who can say if joy or fear Are each in other's lasting debt? Does every Prey enjoy each breath because of constant threat?

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