4,580 Quotes About Joy

  • Author Andre Gide
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    We call "happiness" a certain set of circumstances that makes joy possible. But we call joy that state of mind and emotions that needs nothing to feel happy.

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  • Author Andre Gide
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    Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.

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  • Author Andre Gide
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    From the satisfaction of desire there may arise, accompanying joy and as it were sheltering behind it, something not unlike despair.

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  • Author Edgar Guest
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    Tomorrow--there's no day so fair, It knows no sorrow; A day that banishes despair, Joy rules tomorrow.

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  • Author Elizabeth Gilbert
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    God wants us to be in joy, God wants us to be happy. Because of this extraordinary consciousness and this great ability for wonder and marvel, and without denying any of the terrors and horrors of the world, we also have an obligation toward joy and toward miracle and excitement.

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  • Author Franz Grillparzer
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    A heart that overflows may seek out merrymaking and boisterous festivities to quietly rejoice, unnoticed amidst the reveling crowds.

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  • Author Gale Gordon
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    I've worked with very few that I considered unpleasant. Dennis the Menace was a joy to work on.

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