4,580 Quotes About Joy



  • Author G.K. Chesterton
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    The modern philosopher had told me again and again that I was in the right place, and I still felt depressed even in acquiescence. But I had heard that I was in the wrong place, and my soul sang for joy like a bird in spring.

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  • Author Steven Galloway
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    She felt an enveloping happiness to be alive, a joy made stronger by the certainty that someday it would all come to an end. Afterward she felt a little foolish, and never spoke to anyone about it. Now, however, she knows she wasn't being foolish. She realizes that for no particular reason she stumbled into the core of what it is to be human. It's a rare gift to under stand that you life is wondrous, and that it won't last forever.

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  • Author Toni Morrison
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    No matter what all your teeth and wet fingers anticipated, there was no accounting for the way that simple joy could shake you.

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